Diary, correspondence, reports, notes, scrapbooks, clippings, and photographs pertaining chiefly to Woods's service as New York City police commissioner, colonel in the U.S. War Dept. Division of Military Aeronautics, and assistant to the U.S. secretary of war. Also documents Woods's work with John D. Rockefeller during the 1920s and 1930s. Subjects include Woods's youth in Boston, Mass.; airplane production and maintenance, pilot training, and military preparedness during World War I; vocational rehabilitation for servicemen and unemployment following World War I; and restoration of Williamsburg, Va.