The Braverman family series (1926-1980) covers decades of the Braverman family’s lives and activities, mostly in the Iowa City area. It is largely made up of newspaper clippings with a few items such as recital programs and a telegram to President Franklin Roosevelt from the Johnson County Taxpayers Association asking him to protect the rights of German Jews. This series also contains correspondence related to donations made by the Jewish Ladies Aid Society.

There are two scrapbooks in very fragile condition. The first is made up of loose pages of newspaper clippings and the second is bound. The newspaper clippings within each scrapbook document the lives of Naomi Braverman Markovitz, her sister, Betty; her father, Joseph; and some of their extended family. There are also newspaper clippings related to the build up to World War II and the reaction of the Iowa City Jewish community to the rise of Hitler.