Contains original musical scores and arrangements, photographs of Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra at all stages of the band's career, newspaper clippings and scrapbooks documenting the band's performance history and reception by both critics and the public over time. Also includes audio tapes of CLO recordings and interviews with band associates, phonograph records of original CLO recordings and other recordings of big band music.
Includes records relating to the establishment of the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, 1946, which pioneered the use of radio as a vehicle for adult education programming.