Contains press, clippings, correspondence, handbooks, and other ephemera from the Volunteer Department at Olive View. Press and clippings show volunteers, including Candy Stripers, in action at events and visiting patients in the hospital. Correspondence and handbooks illuminate attitudes about patients and reception of the volunteer program at the Olive View. They also elucidate gender, class, and race issues in the make up of the volunteer corps and the patients they served.

A robust cataloguing of Earthquake and Disaster Drills in the 1980s and 1990s. The collection includes photographs, procedural manuals, notes, and post-drill feedback.