Fonds includes: trade literature; correspondence; handwritten and typed notes; speeches; reprints clippings, and drafts of articles, photographs, technical drawings and other records. The files seem to be mostly personal subject files on aircraft, aviation companies, and other related topics, crossing all eras of aviation. Correspondence could be written by or addressed to Shortt. It could have also been gathered or copied by Shortt, but originally written or addressed to a third-party. The photographs seem to be copies from the Museum’s photograph collection. The files have no particular order, but files on similar topics are grouped together. For example, all Canadair files are grouped together.