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The material in the House Records series (1934-2010) document individual ICC houses and include a mixture of minutes, the constitution of the house, newsletters, photographs (most images, however, are found in the Audio-Visual series), and files relating to the history or administration of a house. The series is divided into 42 subseries; the first 39 correspond to the names of houses and are arranged alphabetically, from Bag-End to Zapata. materials in these subseries are arranged by document type: first minutes, then constitutions or rules, and other materials such as administrative, financial, or event records; house "history" files; or photographs. Following the subseries for the houses are materials for the Division Councils and Boarding Co-ops, including minutes and constitutions. The Multiple Houses subseries contains materials that relate to several houses, including sets of mixed or combined membership and financial records. The Legal and Financial Documents subseries includes materials relating to the legal purchase and ownership of the various houses. Within this subseries, materials are arranged by document type and then chronologically.

The Audio-Visual series (1937-2006) is divided into 7 subseries by format: Sound Recordings, Visual Recordings, Slides, Negatives, Prints, Photograph Albums, and Miscellaneous. Material include oral history interviews, documentaries about ICC and other cooperative organizations, and photographic images (slides, negatives, or prints) of ICC events, people and houses. The Slides, Negatives, and Prints subseries are largely arranged chronologically, with later accessions arranged at the box level. The Photograph Albums subseries is arranged by the title or subject of the albums. Many albums contained loose photographs as well as album pages; these have been grouped according to their original arrangement in binder.

The Visual Recordings and Miscellaneous series contain born-digital materials recorded between 1980 and the 2010's. Please see the individual records for more details and access instructions.