The papers include biographical information, photographs, scrapbooks, sketchbooks, writings, memorabilia, financial records, and extensive personal and professional correspondence. Correspondents include Elaine Goodale Eastman, Annie Peck, Gifford Pinchot, Isabel Fothergill Smith, M. Carey Thomas, and Charles R. Van Hise. Correspondence from the Goldschmidt family is in German with English translation. Her writings include published and unpublished geology articles re: Pennsylvania, Maine, and Massachusetts. The papers also contain speeches, U.S. Geological Survey reports, verse, and photographs, which include pictures taken on geological expeditions to western and southwestern U.S. and Mexico.

This collection is organized into seven series:

• I: BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS AND GENEALOGY
• II: PHOTOGRAPHS AND MEMORABILIA
• III: BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL MATERIALS
• IV: CORRESPONDENCE
• V: WRITINGS
• VI: ORGANIZATIONS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
• VII: INDIVIDUALS AND SUBJECTS
• OVERSIZED MATERIALS