14200 records out of a total of 19,048 MODS records have an entry in the mods:genre field, for a total of 74.5% fields with one of the following values. The total of all records is 174,167, of which MODS records account for almost 11%.
| Addresses | 8 |
| Advertisements | 14 |
| Architectural drawings | 120 |
| Architectural photographs | 32 |
| Architectural records | 21 |
| Artifacts | 8 |
| Autobiographies | 99 |
| Biographies | 8 |
| Booklets | 6 |
| Books | 19 |
| Broadsides Ephemera | 22 |
| Case files | 9 |
| Cityscapes Drawings | 1 |
| Cityscapes Lithographs | 7 |
| Cityscapes--California--San Francisco | 511 |
| Clippings | 18 |
| Corporate minutes | 266 |
| Corporation reports | 6 |
| Diaries | 10 |
| Dissertations | 3 |
| Drawings | 67 |
| Engravings | 11 |
| Ephemera | 113 |
| Family histories | 1 |
| Family papers Letters | 3 |
| Field notes Manuscripts for publication | 2 |
| Landscape architecture drawings | 4 |
| Landscape photographs | 27 |
| Lanscape Architectural records | 3 |
| Letters | 618 |
| Lithographs Pictorial lettersheets | 3 |
| Lithographs, color | 5 |
| Manuscripts | 16 |
| Maps | 152 |
| Newsletters | 1 |
| Newspapers | 1468 |
| Oral Histories | 45 |
| Oral histories | 36 |
| Paintings | 98 |
| Pamphlets | 5 |
| Periodicals | 157 |
| Photograph albums | 5 |
| Photographic prints | 555 |
| Photographs | 8343 |
| Poems | 1 |
| Portraits | 52 |
| Postcards | 61 |
| Posters | 28 |
| Programs | 10 |
| Reports | 134 |
| Speeches | 14 |
| State government publications--California | 69 |
| Stereographs Photographs Photomechanical prints--Color | 2 |
| Student newspapers and periodicals--California | 9 |
| Telegrams | 10 |
| Typescripts | 16 |
| administrative record | 4 |
| advertisement | 5 |
| color photograph | 6 |
| correspondence | 18 |
| educational game | 1 |
| flier | 3 |
| instructions | 3 |
| leaflet | 2 |
| letter | 2 |
| news photographs | 621 |
| photograph | 1 |
| poster | 10 |
| press release | 6 |
| questionnaire | 7 |
| report | 13 |
| survey | 2 |