Alfred Brown received both his bachelors (1931) and masters (1933) degrees from Massachusetts State College in animal husbandry and agricultural economics and completed additional graduate work at Amherst College and Harvard University. In 1935, he returned to his alma mater as an assistant research professor in Agricultural Economics and was promoted in 1948 to full professor with a focus on Marketing and Transportation. During World War II, Brown served as a transportation economist with the War Food Administration and as a consultant for the Office of Defense Transportation. Although Brown retired from teaching in 1972, he continued to work as a consultant for the United States Department of Transportation in Africa until his death in 2000.

The Brown Papers include published and unpublished transportation writings, correspondence, biographical and personal notes as well as notes for research and teaching, newsclippings, motion picture films, and slides. Also included among the papers are files related to Browns university service, including the Alumni War Memorial Fund, the University Centennial Committee, and the Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Kappa.

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