The Patricia Albers papers (1953-1991) contain articles, essays, and symposium documents regarding water issues in the Intermountain West, especially about the Central Utah Water Project. Patricia Albers is an author and former director of the American West Center at the University of Utah.

The Glen Canyon: A Dam, Water, and the West photograph collection contains photographs collected for a 1999 documentary of the same name about the construction of and controversy surrounding the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Green River Archives video collection (circa 1969) consists of a film produced by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Geological Survey on John Wesley Powell. The film describes Powell's first expedition down the Grand Canyon on the Green River, highlighting the area's geological features.

Mitchell Melich (1912-1999) was a Utah lawyer, mining executive, and politican who ran for governor in 1964 and worked as Soliciter for the Department of Interior from 1969 until 1972 under Richard M. Nixon. The Mitchell Melich photograph collection contains photographs depicting Melich's career.