The papers of Christopher Sower consist primarily of his professional writings and also includes notes, departmental memos, and reports. There are two main series: Publications, and Reports & Proposals.

The Publications series contains a group of loose papers which are listed by title, however the majority of the material was kept by Sower in chronological order by year. These groupings contain all his writings including, published articles, drafts, working papers, memos, and correspondence relating to his work with a small amount of personal items interspersed among the material, for each year. These groupings were kept in the original order that Sower arranged them. A list of some of his topics for each year's work is included in the folder descriptions. There is one separate folder of Sower family papers.