The collection consists of printed materials and correspondence compiled by the noted British music librarian, bibliographer, and musicologist Alec Hyatt King. The printed materials include offprints of articles, complete journal issues, exhibition catalogs, catalogs from music publishers and booksellers, membership lists and organizational histories, and concert programs.

The Allen Sapp Score Collection contains manuscript and holograph scores of works composed by Allen Sapp. The collection also contains some of Sapp's drafts, outlines, and twelve-tone row forms and matrices; as well as exercises, analysis, and arrangements of other composer's works completed while at Harvard University.

The Allen Sigel Collection of Scores, 1946-1998 contains approximately 27 compositions by Allen Sigel. Many of them are present in multiple versions. There are also ten works by other composers in arrangements by Sigel and three of his didactic works for clarinet.

The Barbara Ann Conlogue Collection of Eleanor Steber Photographs and Clippings, circa 1935-1990 contains 383 images and eight clippings documenting the life and career of soprano Eleanor Steber. The collection includes stock publicity photographs, but is special for the many informal snapshots of Steber at various functions throughout her career. The snapshots include photographs of a television screen during broadcasts of Steber performances.

Collection contains folders of documents pertaining to Bode Sound Company products, including the Barberpole Phaser, Frequency shifters, and Vocoder. It also contains material from R. A. Moog, Inc. about its model of a vocoder.

Buffalo Musicians' Association records dating from 1889 to the present. Bulk of collection includes meeting minutes and financial records. Collection contains materials from Local 43 (white musicians' union), Local 533 (black musicians' union), Local 92 (merger of Locals 43 and 533, still in existence), Local 649 (Hamburg, N.Y., merged with Local 92 in 1999), and general AFM records.

Contains 45 manuscript compositions, 4 manuscript arrangements, and 5 published compositions. It also contains an article written by Winning and two programs for concerts in Buffalo, New York.

Music librarian Carol June Bradley conducted interviews with 37 music Librarians from various institutions in the United States to research the history and practices of music librarianship.

Contains the extensive research papers of music librarian Carol June Bradley, including biographical information about fifteen American music librarians, files compiled in preparation of her history of music libraries in the United States, documents pertaining to the history of the Music Library Association, teaching materials used in courses in the Music Librarianship graduate program at the University at Buffalo, collected writings by other authors about librarianship, a bibliography of song literature for singers, her research about song literature, and her personal, business-related correspondence.

Contains eighteen photographs of Carol Plantamura with musicians associated with her time in Buffalo, including John Bergamo, Karl Kraber, Gregory Ketchum, Robert Dick, Yvar Mikhashoff, Buell Neidlinger, David Fuller, and Jeremy Noble.