- CRYA : Joseph C. Ryan: Manuscripts
- CRYA 1 Group : Box 1: Class Notes
- CRYA 1/01 Folder : Royko- Bruch- Boyle- Cannon (newspaper columns)
- CRYA 1/02 Folder : General notes mostly on American Literature
- CRYA 1/03 Folder : Cummings- DeLaMare- Day- Howells
- CRYA 1/04 Folder : Hemingway- Steinbeck- Benet- Ulalume
- CRYA 1/05 Folder : Harte- Ade- Frost
- CRYA 1/06 Folder : Henry James
- CRYA 1/07 Folder : Poe
- CRYA 1/08 Folder : O. Henry
- CRYA 1/09 Folder : Whitman- Twain
- CRYA 1/10 Folder : Dickinson- Muir- Kilmer
- CRYA 1/11 Folder : Melville
- CRYA 1/12 Folder : Transcendentalists- Brownson, Hecker, Thoreau
- CRYA 1/13 Folder : Literary Donations- Writing Lessons
- CRYA 1/14 Folder : Drama- Poetry
- CRYA 1/15 Folder : Ballads- Short Story- Essay- Novel
- CRYA 1/16 Folder : Freshman English, Introductory remarks
- CRYA 2 Group : Box 2: Class Notes
- CRYA 2/01 Folder : Notre Dame Clippings
- CRYA 2/01 Document : Frank O'Malley on Edwin O'Connor's death (ND Alumnus) 1968/06
- CRYA 2/01 Subject : Football, Laetare Medalists, Phyllis McGinley
- CRYA 2/01 Document : Charles L. O'Donnell, C.S.C., "The Everlasting Arms: Rockne Funeral Sermon" 1931/0404
- CRYA 2/02 Folder : Ryan writing:
- CRYA 2/02 Title : "Some British Travellers to the American Frontier"
- CRYA 2/02 Title : "You Decide to Go to A Movie"
- CRYA 2/02 Title : "Aspects of Cooper's Sea Stories"
- CRYA 2/02 Title : "Some Minor Poems of Samuel Butler"
- CRYA 2/02 Title : "The Sun-Worshippers"
- CRYA 2/02 Title : "On Meeting the Little Dears"
- CRYA 2/02 Title : "The Oldtime Professor"
- CRYA 2/02 Title : "Land of Enchantment"
- CRYA 2/03 Folder : Newman
- CRYA 2/04 Folder : Dostoyevsky- Beerbohm- Woodhouse
- CRYA 2/05 Folder : Robert Louis Stevenson- Wordsworth
- CRYA 2/06 Folder : Thackeray- Austin
- CRYA 2/07 Folder : Tennyson- Blake- Saki- Arnold
- CRYA 2/08 Folder : Dickens
- CRYA 2/09 Folder : Browning- Trollope
- CRYA 2/10 Folder : Conrad- Sheridan- Benson- Hazlitt
- CRYA 2/11 Folder : Fielding- Lamb- Bronte - Goldsmith- Lear
- CRYA 2/12 Folder : Chaucer- McGarry- Swift
- CRYA 2/13 Folder : Shakespeare- Johnson- Jonson
- CRYA 2/14 Folder : Chesterton- Leacock- Keats
- CRYA 3 Group : Box 3
- CRYA 3/01 Folder : Ledger- filled with written comments on major authors pulled from various sources
- CRYA 3/02-03 Group : Class record books
- CRYA 3/04-10 Group : Syllabi
- CRYA 3/04 Folder : Theme book with requirements for each day's work in courses 1952
- CRYA 3/05 Folder : Theme books with requirements for each day's work in courses 1955-1956
- CRYA 3/06 Folder : Theme books with requirements for each day's work in courses 1958-1959
- CRYA 3/07 Folder : Theme books with requirements for each day's work in courses 1960
- CRYA 3/08 Folder : Theme books with requirements for each day's work in courses 1961
- CRYA 3/09 Folder : Theme book with requirements for each day's work in courses- Fall 1964
- CRYA 3/10 Folder : Theme book with requirements for each day's work in courses 1966-1969
- CRYA 3/11 Folder : Class seating arrangements
- CRYA 3/12 Folder : Academic regulations- University of Notre Dame 1971-1972
- CRYA 3/13 Folder : Christmas card lists 1968-1969
- CRYA 4 Group : Box 4
- CRYA 4/01 Folder : Trial Flight- Purdue University (themes from Freshman English Courses)
- CRYA 4/02 Folder : Restaurant Menus
- CRYA 4/03 Folder : Harper's Weekly (reprint) 1961/0727
- CRYA 4/04-05 Group : Memos, minutes and other material pertaining to 1951-1952
- CRYA 4/04 Group : College of Commerce, Experimental Program for Administrators 1951-1952
- CRYA 4/06-07 Group : Class Notes and Word Lists
- CRYA 5 Group : Box 5: Souvenirs from Travels
- CRYA 5 Group : Lay Faculty Award presented to Joseph Ryan 1953
- CRYA 6 Group : Box 6: Two Scrapbooks containing newsclippings and one containing Johnny Lujack fan mail and clippings
- CRYA 7 Group : Box 7
- CRYA 7/01 Folder : Magdalen School, South Bend 1972-1972
- CRYA 7/02 Folder : Notre Dame forms (absence from class; supplies and books; "new telephone" post card; telephone card list; security)
- CRYA 7/03 Folder : Pamphlets from The Sign ("Ten Books to Start Your Home Library"; "Two Church-State Errors")
- CRYA 7/04 Folder : Articles
- CRYA 7/05 Folder : Our Sunday Visitor- Ryan Articles
- CRYA 7/06 Folder : Newspapers- including South Bend Tribune on War's end (1945) and Ryan award (1953) 1945,1953
- CRYA 7/07-09 Group : Ryan medical insurance and financial records
- CRYA 8 Group : Box 8
- CRYA 8/01 Folder : Correspondence- illness, (with O'Hara, Carrico, James W. Ryan) 1930s
- CRYA 8/02 Folder : Selective Service Classification 1943/0618
- CRYA 8/03 Folder : Personal Correspondence (mainly from students)
- CRYA 8/04 Folder : Contract, Comments, Thesis
- CRYA 8/04 Document : Contract (with Cavanaugh cover letter) 1951
- CRYA 8/04 Document : Leo Ward on Ryan's courses 1952
- CRYA 8/04 Document : Thesis approved by Ryan 1941
- CRYA 8/05 Folder : London Souvenirs
- CRYA 8/06-07 Group : Vocabulary Quizzes
- CRYA 8/08 Folder : Souvenirs from trips
- CRYA 9-10 Group : Boxes 9 and 10: John F. Kennedy memorabilia
- CRYA 11 Group : Box 11: Scrapbook of newsclippings and correspondence
- GRYA : Joseph C. Ryan: Graphics
- GRYA 1/01-12 Group : Ryan, Joseph C.- Biographical photos c1920-1972
- GRYA 1/01 Subject : Ryan, Joseph C.- English Dept. c1920-1972
- GRYA 1/02 Subject : English Dept- Classroom scenes c1940-1960
- GRYA 1/03 Subject : Commencement 1953
- GRYA 1/03 Subject : Lay Faculty Award- Ryan, Joseph C. 1953
- GRYA 1/04 Subject : Cemetery 1947
- GRYA 1/04 Subject : Lyons Hall c1940s
- GRYA 1/04 Subject : Panorama of campus- Lakes and campus 1947
- GRYA 1/04 Subject : Dormitory scenes c1924