Correspondence, legal briefs, and miscellaneous records relating to Johnson's work on the Idaho State Council of Defense, and newspaper clippings regarding Idaho territorial history, prominent Idahoans, and Idaho politics.

Correspondence, reports, speeches, notes, and other papers regarding McVety's investigation of labor problems involving the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in North Idaho (1917) and his investigation of complaints concerning the use of Mexican labor in central and eastern Idaho (1918).