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• One issue of The Minute Man, vol. 1, no. 8 (June 1924). Published by the Maintenance Company, Inc., Contracting Engineers, New York, N.Y.
• Six calendars issued by James F. Gillespie Co., Elevators, 20 Sixth Avenue, New York, N.Y., for the months of January-May, and July, 1925, featuring portraits of American inventors Benjamin Franklin, George Stephenson, Robert Fulton, Elias Howe, Samuel F. B. Morse, and Alexander Graham Bell.
• A folding business card for Streiffer's Pharmacy, 103 East 96th Street, Manhattan, printed with a calendar for 1939.
• A typed transcription of the description of "Uropophyrin I" from Roy R. Kracke, Diseases of the Blood (1941).
• Newman's membership card in the New York Fire Department Emergency Auxillary Corps (5 March 1942), with his armband insignia for the same (a red cross inside a white triangle inside a blue circle).
• United States Civil Service Commission Position Description for Price Specialist, Office of Price Stabilization (14 May 1951).

Lawrence Newman was born in late 1912. According to his U.S. Army discharge papers (see Folder 12), he completed high school and two years of college, leaving school in 1933. If he graduated from high school about 1931, these R.O.T.C. patches probably date from his subsequent time at Columbia University or City College.

A registration certificate, notices of classification, and correspondence from Local Board No. 28 of the Selective Service (250 West 90th Street, Manhattan) directing Lawrence Newman to report for a physical examination, induction, and active duty.

• Correspondence from Mount Sinai Hospital and the New York Chapter of the American Red Cross regarding Newman's donation of blood for the British Red Cross, November-December 1940.
• Certificate from the American National Red Cross to Mrs. Lawrence Newman for her personal service during World War II, December 1945.

• War Department. Adjutant General's Office. General Classification Test 1c and 1d, 1941 (2 booklets).
• War Department. Adjutant General's Office. Cryptography—TC 4a, 1943.
• War Department. Adjutant General's Office. Army General Classification Test: Reading and Vocabulary (RV-3a), Arithmetic Computation (AC-3a), and Arithmetic Reasoning (AR-3a), 1945 (3 booklets).
• Headquarters, Army Air Forces Eastern Flying Training Command, Maxwell Field, Alabama. Enlisted Classification Training Program Class No. 3, June 26–July 23 1945. Syllabus and student list.
• A true/false examination taken by Lawrence Newman.

Documents from Lawrence Newman's time at Sheppard Air Force Base, Wichita Falls, Texas, including an off-duty pass, extracts of special orders, and a map of the field.

Documents from Lawrence Newman's time at Amarillo Army Air Field, Amarillo, Texas, including copies of special orders, physical condition reports, his request for dependency discharge, and a map of the base.

Amarillo Army Air Field: A Camera Trip Through Amarillo Army Air Field, Texas (pictorial booklet).

A few blank sheets and envelopes printed "Section 'A' / Amarillo Army Air Field / Amarillo, Texas."

• One pad of blank furlough forms (W.D., A.G.O. Form No. 31, 8 June 1944).
• So You've Got a Furlough? (pamphlet, 13 June 1944).
• Going Back to Civilian Life (pamphlet, August 1945).
• A leaflet with illustrations of 16 service ribbons, with their names and meanings (1945).
• Three undated instructional drawings showing the correct method of "Latrine Cleaning," "Alignment and Order of Clothing" in a service member's bunk, and how to properly organize one's footlocker.

A pamphlet describing "Veterans' Administration Benefits for the Ex-Serviceman," with forms, correspondence, and receipts regarding Lawrence Newman's policy with National Service Life Insurance.

Multiple copies of Lawrence Newman's "Enlisted Record and Report of Separation / Honorable Discharge" (5 February 1946), with his "Separation Qualification Record" outlining his military duties and civilian occupations, and an Army Air Forces Certificate of Appreciation for War Service.

Promotional materials for the Military Order of the Purple Heart, mailed to Milton S. Ballenberg (Lawrence Newman's father-in-law), at 25 East 86th Street, Manhattan (undated, but references "the boys in Korea," so circa 1950–1953). Includes reproductions of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

• Humorous mockup of a "Classification Sleeve Patch" with the Latin motto "Hic Hotto Absurdum" (freely translated as "We do it the hard way").
• Blank form, "AAF Officers' Qualification Record."