This collection includes correspondence, pamphlets, brochures, bulletins, texts of speeches, presentations, photographs, and writings from Alice Nichols ranging from 1920 to 1990. Correspondence included in the collection is both professional and personal in nature, and documents her early career, her years at Ball State, and her post-retirement life.

This collection includes files, Video Home Recording (VHS) tapes, Digital Video Discs (DVD), Magnetic recording tape, publications, scrapbooks, photographs and photographic slides from the Ball State University Department of Theatre and Dance in Muncie, Indiana ranging from 1941 to 2014 regarding the dance history through programs, scrapbooks, subject files and dance recordings on performance stages.