Materials in this series cover the period 1993-2001. The bulk of the materials dates from 1997 to 2000 and documents the National Park Service during Robert Stanton's tenure as Director of the National Park Service.

The Visual Materials series contain video tapes which pertain to Robert Stanton and the National Park Service during his tenures as the Regional Director of the National Capital Region, Washington, D.C. (1988-1997), and the Director of the National Park Service (1997-2001). Many of the video tapes were made by monitoring/media companies, as well as Stanton's staff at the National Park Service. There are tapes which cover Stanton's confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on July 17, 1997 to become the Director of the National Park Service, giving speeches or introductory remarks at events, and visiting parks and historic sites. Also included are interviews with Stanton about park fees, the many problems of preserving public lands, and other park-related matters. Also included are video tapes of historian and author David McCullough and Stanton giving speeches at the 200th anniversary celebration of the White House; Assistant Secretary of the Interior George T. Frampton, Jr. and U.S. Representative Wayne Allard from Colorado (District 4) discussing the budget for the National Park Service; President Bill Clinton giving his State of the Union Message Address on January 27, 1998; First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking about the "Save America's Treasures" initiative; U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman giving the keynote address at the Federal Women's Program "Celebrating Women's History Month"; and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater giving the keynote address in celebration of African-American History Month. In addition, there are interviews with John Parsons, Chairman of the National Capital Memorial Commission, Professor Robin Winks, a historian at Yale University, and Stanton's predecessor, National Park Service Director Roger Kennedy.

Other topics documented on the video tapes include communities co-existing successfully next to national parks, snowmobiles vs. wolves at Voyageurs National Park, the Underground Railroad, the National Prisoner of War Museum, the African American Civil War Memorial, diversity in the National Park Service, conditions at the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, and the Dorothy Height Legacy Initiative, a video about how the National Council of Negro Women helps to improve the lives of Black women around the world. Finally, the DVD documents the Superintendent's Partnership Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on April 5-7, 2004, where Stanton spoke at their banquet.