The Arts Club kept a variety of scrapbooks to document their myriad activities. The most consistent run of scrapbooks is their clippings scrapbooks, which begin in 1917. These contain newsclippings about the Club itself, its membership, and its exhibits and other activities. Other scrapbooks collect all printed matter from the early years of the Arts Club (including programs, announcements, blank forms, stationery, etc.), information about exhibits held in the designated Arts Club room at the Art Institute of Chicago, materials of the Drama League (headed by Alice Gerstenberg), a memorial scrapbook for the Club's second president Rue W. Carpenter, and a scrapbook of mostly photographs of the various rooms of the Arts Club space at 400 N. Michigan (Wrigley Building), South Tower.

A microfilm reel of clippings from 1972-1973 season is also available. The physical clippings' wheareabouts are unknown.