The Howard D. Severance papers consist of his 1903 B.S. degree in the Mechanical Course and his 1913 Civil Engineering degree both from Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University).

The collection consists of Breckenridge’s responses to correspondence including information about his attempts to patent an automatic recording machine, his position at Yale, and Jeme Tien Yow, a colleague and friend living in Peking, China.