The collection contains almost 6,000 pages of travel writing in 16 typed manuscript journals and three holographic manuscript journals, 121 reels of film in 8 mm format and 39 reels of film in 16 mm format. Included with the archival materials are three professional steel Neumade cabinets where the films are currently stored. Three of the 8 mm films have been digitized by the vendor with no breaking or loss to the film and the resultant CD is included with the collection. A 10-page typed catalog of the 16 mm films created by Scudder is included with the archive, along with two leather valises that contain a more detailed typed description of the images on each of the films on reels 9-31.

Places visited include: Austria, Bali, Canada, Ceylon, China, Cuba, Cyprus/Rhodes, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, India, Jamaica, Japan, Java, Korea, Latvia, Manchuria, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Russia, San Salvador and other Central American countries; Scotland, Siam, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Syria, the Balkans, the Hawaiian Islands, the Netherlands, the Philippine Islands, Turkey, and Yugoslavia.