Scrapbook of Ideal Bladoni memorabilia (clippings, photos, artifacts, and some manuscripts), 1920s-1990s, documenting his life and career as Chairman of the Saint Joseph County Democratic Party; three cassette audio tapes of an oral history conducted by Jack Colwell with Ideal Baldoni in September 1995, with a transcription.

Civil War Records recounting the war and post-war activities of Saint Joseph County residents; with correspondence of soldiers, including Lt. Col. Alfred B. Wade and Schuyler Colfax; the records of various Saint Joseph county war offices, including registers of the sick, wounded and dead; and records of activities of several Indiana infantry regiments, among them the 73rd Indiana Infantry (1862-1924).

Newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, and local history publications relating to the history of South Bend and St. Joseph County, Indiana, with information on historic preservation, the Studebaker Corporation, Amish Acres, Bethel College, Stan Coveleski, the Indiana American Revolutionary Bicentennial Commission, and the Northern Indiana Historical Society.

Early Saint Joseph County records as compiled by various town officials, 1829-1865; including a 1829 field survey of the area, early court records, and records of the County clerk, auditor, Justice of the Peace, and Treasurer; also a list of grave plots in Saint Joseph County compiled in 1939 by the WPA.