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The Biographical series, among other summary information, includes a transcript of an oral interview with Wilber Brucker conducted by Richard Ortquist, May 26, 1964.

The Correspondence series dates from 1915 to 1968 and begins with letters that Brucker wrote to his future wife while serving in the campaign against Pancho Villa, 1915-1916. Beyond these personal letters, the Correspondence series is notable for the list of Brucker's correspondents. Correspondents include Presidents Hoover and Eisenhower, and state and national leaders such as Alvin Bentley, John W. Bricker, Roy D. Chapin, James J. Couzens, Thomas E. Dewey, Homer Ferguson, Fred W. Green, Frank Knox, Henry Cabot Lodge, Frank Murphy, Chase S. Osborn, Elly Peterson, George Romney, Arthur E. Summerfield, Robert A. Taft, and Arthur H. Vandenberg.

Family Papers includes the oldest materials in the collection, consisting in part of some papers of his father and mother. Included also are some letters exchanged with his son Wilber Brucker, Jr.