- Annual reports 1885-1945
- Applications for admission 1889-1896
- Bookkeepers register 1915
- Board of Trustees minutes 1949-1953
- Catalogues 1865-1909
- Classification record 1924-1931
- Correspondence 1945-1963
- Daily report books 1937-1988 (1964, 1970-1981 missing)
- Daily report record 1894, 1898-1900
- Discharge books 1890-1976
- Division sponsorship notices
- General visiting hours, rules, notices, special rules for division rooms (no dates)
- Housekeeper record 1893-1895
- House Parent handbook 1975
- Legislative reports 1906-1920
- List of children and homes provided for them 1885-1890
- Minutes 1879-1941
- Order books 1893-1909 (11 books, incomplete)
- Photographs
- Record of patients 1883-1884
- Storekeeper's subsistence ledger 1924-1927, 1930-1932
- Store room account receipt & disbursements (incomplete) 1904-1908
- Student betterment funds 1941-1955
- Sunday night treat book 1937, 1939, 1940-43, 1947, 1949-50, 1953-54
- Superintendent correspondence 1945-1956
- Switzerland county, expenses, reports, school lands, etc. 1879-1899
- Visiting Committee minutes 1953-1961
- Visitor's register 1892-1941
- Visitor's register/Discharge list/Placement records 1920's
Graham, Paul C., comp. History of the Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, 1865-1904. Knightstown:The Home Journal, 1905.
Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home Alumni Association. Home for a Century, 1865-1965. Greenfiled:Mitchell-Fleming Printing, Inc., 1965.
Cortner, Leslie A. and Dorothy R. Cortner. Our Home, 1923-1962. [Knightstown], 1978.