The Chan Doo Sung papers consist three main parts. The first series is advertisements, which contains advertisements that were posted on the newspapers. All of them were cut off from newspapers. Some were made into scrapbooks, others are rearranged into different files based on location of the offices chronologically. The other main component of this category is testimonial. Chan asked his patients to write testimonials for him to use as advertisement. Testimonials are arranged by location of the office chronologicallt as well. Materials in this category indicate types of diseases Chan worked on and feedback from his patients.

The second series is business. It contains different materials including the original text of Chan's advertisements with his corrections by hand on some of them, brochure, congratulation card from Chan's friends, correspondence between Chan and his patients, instruction and receipts. One special material in this series is Chan's logos for printing. It is a traditional figure with a positive meaning in Chinese culture. Some of the logos were curved on paper, other were curved on metal either with or without a wood base.

The last series is prescriptions that contains a notebook of hand written prescriptions and some separated ones. Those prescriptions are vary based on the diseases which include but not limited to heache, throat ache, backache, women's problem, problem of different organs such as heart, liver, and kidney...The prescriptions are also vary even for the same symptoms with different causes.