Series consists of files on the Arts and Letters Club, Aylett Studio, Claridge Apartments (Toronto), Dartmouth College, Concourse Building (Toronto), Lawren Harris residence (Toronto), Rockwell Kent, J.E.H. MacDonald, Reginald Marsh, murals, F. Renwick-Brown, St. Anne's Church (Toronto), and letters of recommendation. The material largely comprises printed material and notes (vols. 9-10).
Series consists of files on the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, the exhibition "Carl Schaefer in Hanover", Conference of Canadian Artists, Doon School of Fine Arts, Federation of Canadian Artists, Fireman's Hall exhibition, gallery collections, honorary degrees and awards, Picture Loan Society, National Gallery of Canada, Ontario College of Art, stamp collection, Sunbury Shores Art Centre and Winnipeg Art Gallery. The files contain correspondence, memoranda, exhibition notices, clippings, minutes of meetings, reports, notes and other material (vols. 12-13).
Series also contains miscellaneous material filed by subject by Schaefer (vols. 37-39). The earliest material includes two diaries recording trips to Pickerel River, one in 1926 in the company of Lawrie Warrener and one in 1927 in the company of Lawrie Warrener, George Pepper and Bob Mower (the latter includes an account of finding A.Y. Jackson and Lawren Harris' initials carved into a table top and records how Pepper and Warrener got lost with all the cooking equipment and how Pepper put an axehead in Schaefer's pack as a joke). There is also a copy of Charles Comfort's diary of a trip to Haliburton with Schaefer and Robert Ayre. The material includes Schaefer's files documenting his Guggenheim scholarship, 1940, including his application and reports, a list of his paintings put into storage at the Art Gallery of Toronto when he left Canada, documentation regarding exhibitions during the time he was away (including material on the Contempo Club formed in Ottawa by Henri Masson and Tom Wood), notes on printmaking, and other material documenting his experiences in the United States. Other files include records of reproduction permissions and royalties and various certificates and awards.
