This collection consists of blueprints, their corresponding indices, and building specification booklets for the years roughly starting around 1910 through 1950. The indices list building projects in the order in which they were begun and are arranged numerically by file number, starting with file number 309 through file 798. Building projects listed are predominately in La Crosse and southwestern Wisconsin with a smaller portion on greater Wisconsin and a handful of projects in southeastern Minnesota and are primarily schools, churches, hospitals, and some private residences. Blueprints for the buildings indexed are housed separately from the index and specification booklets. Unnumbered plans were placed at the end of the collection.

Of the eight Parkinson and Dockendorff buildings that are on Wisconsin’s National Register of Historic Places, only the addition to the Willard D. Purdy Junior High and Vocational School on 110 West Third Street in Marshfield is contained in this collection.

There is also an index to Parkinson & Dockendorff architectural plans available at DY Architects, formerly known as Kratt & Associates, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, which has more complete coverage of the firm's designs than can be found in this publicly accessible collection. However, a former owner of Kratt loaned and gave some drawings away and there isn't an index to those project files that are now missing.

Because the drawings are not dated, an attempt was made to associate years of construction when possible. The notation Rausch 1996 in the container listing is a reference to a page from the City of La Crosse, Wisconsin Intensive Survey Report: Architectural and Historical Survey Project from 1996.