Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, notes, interviews, questionnaires, legislative files, testimony, casework, law practice client files, court documents, statements, press releases, appointment books, scheduling files, travel itineraries, campaign files, card files, biographical material, student papers, family papers, scrapbooks, news clippings, printed matter, awards and honors, political ephemera, maps, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Mink's service in the U.S. House of Representatives. Documents Mink's service on Hawaii's territorial and state legislatures; Honolulu City Council; U.S. Congress House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; and U.S. Dept. of State Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; her involvement with Americans for Democratic Action and Young Democratic Clubs of America; and her private law practice in Honolulu.

Subjects include Asian-Americans; child care; civil rights; congressional reform; consumer affairs; draft reform; education; environment; ethnic and racial discrimination; gender equity; Hawaii and national Democratic politics; native Hawaiians; health care; historic sites and national parks in Hawaii; immigration; Japanese Americans; labor; military bases in Hawaii; nuclear weapons testing; poverty; strip mining legislation; Title IX; U.S. relations with China; U.S. territories in the Pacific including American Samoa, Guam, and the Trust Territory; the Vietnam War; welfare; Women's Educational Equity Act; and women and women's rights.