Series 1: Audio and Moving Image Recordings

This series includes:

• grooved media
  • long play records
    • 42,446 LPs (12 inches, 33⅓ rpm)
    • 2,594 LPs (10 inches, 33⅓ rpm)
  • 3,500 discs (10 or 12 inches, 78 rpm)
  • singles (7 inches, 45 rpm)
• optical media
  • CD, CD-R, CD-RW
  • DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW

Cataloged recordings are discoverable through search.Libraries.

Series 2: Periodicals, 1936–2011

This series includes:

• journals
• magazines
• newsletters

You can discover 153 titles in search.Libraries.

An additional 237 titles with single or few issues may be found in an inventory (PDF, 7 pages).

Series 3: Concert Programs, 1942–2009

This series includes 303 files of:

• concert programs
• jazz and blues festivals programs
• tour programs
• club and venue programs

These may be found in an inventory (PDF, 9 pages).

Series 4: Record Catalogs, 1935–2006

This series includes 313 files of:

• discographies by record labels and companies
• catalogs of record distributors, dealers, and retailers
• bibliographical or periodical compilations issued as catalogs

These may be found in an inventory (PDF, 8 pages).

Series 5: Sheet Music

This series contains 154 items:

• individual popular song sheet music
• artist folios and branded collections of sheet music
• methods and exercise books
• full and partial ensemble scores and parts

These may be found in an inventory (PDF, 5 pages).

Series 6: Books, 1972–2009

You can discover books in search.Libraries.

An additional 143 books to be cataloged may be found in an inventory (PDF, 8 pages).

Series 7: Visual Materials

This series includes:

• photographs
• film posters and lobby cards, 1930–1992
• posters related to events, festivals, tours
• framed drawings, illustrations, and prints on paper
• framed albums and sheet music
• framed ephemera (fans, matchbooks, stamps)

Descriptions of 70 photographs (2000–2008) of jazz performers by Mark Sheldon (Indianapolis, Indiana) may be found in an inventory (PDF, 4 pages).

Descriptions of 600 film posters and lobby cards (1930–1992) depicting jazz performers may be found in an inventory sorted by film title (PDF, 27 pages).

You can also explore a curated digital collection of 761 items.

Series 8: Artifacts, Scrapbooks, and Other Ephemera, 1933–2006

This series includes:

• musical instruments and accessories
• noise makers and novelty items
• dining, drinking, and smoking accessories
• personal apparel, awards, pennants, fans, ribbons
• scrapbook albums filled with autographs, photographs, programs, and sheet music

Descriptions of 40 three-dimensional artifacts may be found in an inventory (PDF, 3 pages).

Descriptions of 18 scrapbook albums may be found in an inventory (PDF, 2 pages).