Series is comprised of materials relating to R. Ford Bentley's career both with the Miehle Printing Press and Manufacturing Company, and his own advertising firms, Bentley and Company and R. Bentley & Associates as well as other companies with which he worked such as Klau-Van Pieterson-Dunlap, Inc. and Ladd, Southward & Bentley. Miehle materials include corporate papers that predate Bentley's tenure, but fall under his father Arthur Bentley's presidency. These include minutes, correspondence, and promotional materials, as well as competitors' promotional materials. The Other Companies subseries contains materials pertaining to the marketing and advertising firms which Bentley was associated with in between stints at Miehle.