The collection is comprised of the professional and personal papers of Stow Wengenroth, an artist, author, and lithographer. The material is arranged in four series and the arrangement within each series is topical, except for the box of correspondence between Wengenroth and Harriet Matson Wengenroth, where original order was found and maintained.

Series I. Professional Life includes lithographs, contact sheets, and transparencies that were part of Wengenroth’s professional process as an artist. It also includes professional correspondence, catalogs, and exhibition brochures spanning Wengenroth’s career and clippings regarding Wengenroth’s exhibitions and professional life. There is a folder on his Farnsworth Summer 1968 Exhibition, which includes correspondence, exhibition catalogs, photographs of the show, and clippings regarding the same. There is a folder containing products with Wengenroth’s lithographs, including a menu for Child’s restaurant and Christmas cards of his design.

Series II. Personal Life includes correspondence, clippings, memorabilia, and blueprints. There is a folder of personal correspondence, which includes letters from friends and family. Numerous Christmas cards were received, including some illustrated by artist friends of the Wengenroths. The papers regarding early life include a reproduction photograph of a school play in which Wengenroth took part. Box 5 contains the courtship letters of Wengenroth and his second wife, Harriet Matson, over a span of four years. The letters have been maintained in their original order. The Wengenroths grouped some letters as favorites.

Series III. Photographs includes professional and personal images. One folder includes photographs of Wengenroth’s professional life, including photos of him at work on a lithograph. Box 6 contains Album, Volume 1, a small album of photographs of the Wengenroth family and Stow Wengenroth’s early life. The photographs from Maine depicting New England nature scenes provided inspiration for many of Wengenroth’s lithographs.

Series IV. Family Papers consists primarily of the papers of Stow Wengenroth’s wives, Edith Flack Ackley and Harriet Matson. Edith Flack Ackley’s collection includes her work on the Flack family genealogy, which includes a folder on the Greenport Literary Society in the 1890s. The obituaries folder includes laminated family obituaries for the Wengenroth family. Included are folders of Harriet Matson Wengenroth’s short story manuscripts written under various pseudonyms.