Begun in 1956, the Graff catalogue project was finally completed in 1968 with the publication of A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana. In 1956 Colton Storm was invited to Chicago by Everett D. Graff and Stanley Pargellis (Newberry Librarian, 1942-1962) to catalogue the entire Graff Collection. After viewing the materials, Storm argued for a full published catalogue and soon started working on descriptions for each of the approximately 10,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, and maps comprising the collection. To shorten the lengthy manuscript for publication, most secondary sources were eliminated and descriptions were abbreviated considerably. In 1968, the Catalogue was published for the Newberry by the University of Chicago Press.

Draft item descriptions, planning documents, publisher negotiations records, and limited bibliographical correspondence of compiler Colton Storm. Included are preliminary draft descriptions, rejected draft descriptions, a cross index to the rejected descriptions, descriptions of unlocated items, and final draft descriptions.