The collection has been divided into three series of paper records: organizational records of the state federation, records of its chief committee, and its archives for folk music research. A fourth series consists of tape recordings.
The organizational records series chiefly consists of minutes of meetings. From 1926 to 1940 these were unbound, but after 1940 minutes were combined with official correspondence and miscellaneous musical programs into bound volumes.
The second series is comprised of the project records of the Musical Equipment for Servicemen Project (1941-1945) and the Music in Hospitals Project (1944-present). These consist of reports, correspondence, citations, address books, three scrapbooks, a daily record of contributions, and a public relations tape recording. The correspondence is chiefly from servicemen and special service officers during World War II in appreciation for the organization's contributions.
The third series consists of the Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs' folk music archives and a number of related small additions made by the State Historical Society, etc. These consist of research materials used by the organization in a folk music survey, a number of bibliographies of folk music collections, and reprints of miscellaneous articles and pamphlets concerning folk music. In addition, a few folk music transcriptions, scores and song books have been included, as well as two tape recordings of folk songs.
