Caroline L. Whiting received a diploma in Illustrative Advertising from the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons School of Design) in 1925. The collection consists of two notebooks of hand-written lecture notes, tracings, drawing exercises, and visual research Whiting maintained during her studies.

The collection includes class notes and a clipbook of decorative styles compiled by Ethel Epstein (who later used the surnames Dean and Evans) when she attended the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later Parsons School of Design) in the Interior Architecture and Decoration Department, around 1925. Also includes textile samples, circa the 1950s, and costume designs for the Broadway play "The Laughing Woman" (1936).