This file set contains articles, compilations, filed paperwork, and reports, including a large bound volume by the U.S. Department of Commerce on the 1971 Sylmar Earthquake. Some of the photographs in box 55 are mounted on paper with additional information, report-style.

The administrative files in this set belonged to an administrator named Cherry. There are articles, compilations, narratives, memos, and other correspondence related to the earthquake and recovery from the earthquake, and earthquake preparedness.