The collection includes: annual reports; band rehearsal attendance, marching band formation charts, news clippings, magazines, and marching band halftime programs. The Music Department information includes correspondence, reports, and pamphlets. There is also Michigan State Institute of Music and Allied Arts materials that includes music programs and press releases. The collection also includes scrapbooks containing of concert programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and service bulletins including some from WWII. Also included in the collection are music scores that were used as part of the Michigan Music Project, a Works Progress Administration initiative. The photographs in the collection includes images of cadet band, marching band, concert band, performance groups, Swartz Creek Band, music camps, music extension, fine arts festival, band day, and people. There are also slides of the demolition of the old music practice building in 1967, construction of the new music practice building in 1968, and images of the finished music building in 1969.