The Abbott family collection includes general and personal correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, certificates, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and realia. This includes letters written and photographs taken by Ai and Elizabeth Abbott during their time in Peru, correspondence and journals from Inez Abbott and Ella Snyder during their time in Europe and Bulgaria, and photographs and realia relating to the Chicago Commons Settlement.

The records consist of one issue of the newsletter of the Russian and East European Studies Program from 1975. It lists movies and lectures as well as educational opportunities off campus. Also included is an unpublished annual report from 1971.