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 are also Michigan State Institute of Music and Allied Arts materials that includes music programs and press releases. The collection also includes scrapbooks containing concert programs, photographs, newspaper clippings, and service bulletins including some from World War II. Also included in the collection are music scores that were used as part of the Michigan Music Project, a Works Progress Administration initiative. Photographs in the collection includes images of the cadet band, the marching band, the concert band, performance groups, the Swartz Creek Band, music camps, music extension, the 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.