The collection consists of records on the national and Wisconsin department of PLAV, and on individual Wisconsin PLAV posts, collected by the officers of the State Department. Included are constitutions and by-laws, incorporation papers; correspondence and memos, with many from the national organization; a manual of rituals and ceremonies; minutes of state department meetings, national and state conventions, and national executive committee meetings; newsletters; news releases; reports; and rosters. Regarding the individual posts are rosters of officers and members, and reports of the post commanders, usually submitted following the monthly post meetings. A small file of address cards also gives information about members.
Most of the records date from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s; the more recent material was incorporated from the records of the Ladies' Auxiliary, which form a separate collection.
