The fonds consists of a resume (handwritten) of David Pasternak, a funeral notice and obituary for David Pasternak, 18 photographs of David Pasternak and his labratory, including field photographs, and a bound volume, entitled: "Proceedings: Athabasca Oil Sands Conference, September, 1951," Board of Trustees, Oil Sands Project, Government of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. This includes a paper by Pasternak, Hodgson and Clark on "Oil Recovery from the Alberta Oil Sands by the Hot Water Washing Method."