Scrapbooks, photographs, programs, financial materials, and other items relating to Boise Music Week and other musical activities in Boise, Idaho (1930-1987). Also includes one minute book of the Tuesday Musicale, Boise (1915-1917).

Correspondence, financial records, recipes, cooking brochures, and memorabilia. Includes correspondence and other materials relating to music and the Idaho State Federation of Music Clubs.

This collection consists of materials pertaining to Boise's annual Music Week, National Federation of Music Clubs and the Community Concert Program.

Letter from James A. Pinney, manager, regarding an upcoming performance of Leoncavallo and the La Scala Theatre Orchestra in Boise, Idaho.

Music for "The Scandanavian U.S. Soldier" translated and arranged by Hanson, of Boise, Idaho.

Music to "I'm headin' home to Arizona" and "Little Ghost Town" words by Dorothy Mendenhall (later Dorothy Mendenhall Gloss), of Weiser, Idaho.

Words and music to "Idaho" written by Frank French.

Two songs written by Hornby, of Boise, Idaho, entitled, "Introducing Peter Blue, the Sioux, to you, Mr. Jap" dedicated to the defenders of Wake Island; and "God, Help America" dedicated to William E. Borah.

Correspondence and records of Hiram A. Hart as secretary of the Musicians Protective Association of Boise, Idaho, Local 537 of the American Federation of Musicians; a directory (1927) of musicians in Local 537; correspondence with Joe N. Weber, president of the national union; union wage scales; and transfer cards showing where musicians traveled.

School Benefit Poster featuring a black-faced performer. Hobo-Band and The Idaho Play Boys school benefit poster.

Minutes (1940-1962); scrapbooks (1939-1961); and a history of the Federation from 1923 to 1952.

Contains advertisements and photographs of music instructors throughout Idaho.

Collection includes music, verse, songbooks relating to the Idaho state song; songs with Idaho in the title; University of Idaho songs; songs of Boise, Idaho, and Wallace, Idaho; folk songs; and miscellaneous songs. Also includes information from the Library of Congress regarding Idaho folksongs, and songs by Evalena May Drew.

Letters sent to Meta E. Gammon from 1918 to 1919, which chronicle the war-time journeys of two Northwestern soldiers assigned to the US Armed Forces Medical Department. The collection is stored in one record box, divided by originator: letters from Sergeant Ralph E. Gerber are in a cardboard "Letters" box; letters from Private Grant D. Godrey are stored in a single file folder. The collection also contains three Christmas greeting cards, none signed.

Collection contains music programs for various places in Boise.

Transcriptions taken by Beemer, a Warren, Idaho, miner, from songs whistled, hummed, or sang by local residents. Also enclosed is a reminiscence by Taylor Smith.