Comprises negatives and contact sheets from 2,165 rolls of film of Meadows' documentary photographs, exposed between 1969 and 1986. From 1986 onwards Meadows changed how he filed his negatives and contact sheets, alongside other project papers and photographic material.

A detailed list of contents for the series of negatives and contact sheets (MSS. Meadows 1-44) is at MS. Meadows 1. The contents are listed by the film and roll number, the first of which is depicted in the file titles for this series, for example MS. Meadows 1 is referred to as College 01 in the contents. A born-digital copy of the list is at MS. Meadows digital 195 (=Closed.).