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There is a small folder of Biographical Information/Personal Material, which includes brief biographical information contained in a letter written by the Board of Regents conferring upon Liddicoat the title of professor emeritus. Also found in this series is a narrative written by Eloise Liddicoat, the wife of his son Bill and a program from a school play of Liddicoat's son, Bill, which bears Jesse Owens autograph on the back.

The Writings series includes Liddicoat's 1940 dissertation entitled "Analytical determination of coefficient of contraction for perfect or non-viscous liquid flowing through sharp-edged circular orifice in plane wall." There is also a report done in 1931 on his experimental study of human tolerance for horizontally applied accelerating forces and a manual that he wrote in 1946 on materials testing.

The Visual Material series includes both photographs and a motion picture film. The photographs depict the College of Engineering as it looked when housed in West Engineering, now known as West Hall. There are also photographs taken in Kearsarge and in Ann Arbor. Within a red album are photographs of the Liddicoat family in Kearsarge, many of these are of Professor Liddicoat's wife, Carmen, and their infant son, Richard, Jr., and some World War I memorabilia. Also included is a formal photograph of the Liddicoat family, and a portrait of Professor Liddicoat. There are a number of images documenting his education and career as an engineer at the University of Michigan. These include pictures of Liddicoat as a student surrounded by his undergraduate friends, as a teacher in a West Engineering classroom, with colleagues in his West Engineering office, photographs of the interior of his laboratory at the University of Michigan. The motion picture concerns Liddicoat's research with helicopters. The film has not yet been viewed because of broken sprockets and access will be prohibited until the film has been copied into a videotape format.