This record group consists of family records and Aurelia Reinhardt's personal papers. The family records include genealogical material, copies of family letters, and memorabilia concerning the Henry and Reinhardt families. Aurelia Reinhardt's personal papers contain her personal correspondence, scrapbooks, diaries, address and memoranda books, and other personal volumes and documents. The personal correspondence was generated either before or after her Presidency of Mills and correspondence with close family members, with the exception of material that Reinhardt herself separated from her professional files to retain with her personal papers. Record Group I provides information on Reinhardt's family background, her childhood, her undergraduate days at the University of California, Berkeley, her marriage, and the years after her retirement.
Arrangement is chronological except where noted otherwise.
The Office of the President Files, composed largely of correspondence, contains material that passed through the Office of the President during Reinhardt's administration. Reinhardt's involvement in community and civic organizations. The material is ordered according to the scheme devised by Reinhardt's secretaries. These files, maintained by Rosalind Keep, reflect her activities as Alumnae Secretary, Director of the Office of Publication and her work as personal secretary, biographer, and archivist for Dr. Reinhardt. Rosalind Keep's own activities are documented in the material she retained from the Alumnae Association and Bureau of publication.