Recordings and music scores including over 270 music books and sheet music, dating from the 1880s through the 1940s (some later), and more than 340 recordings from the 1900s through the 1970s. The scores are primarily classical and popular arrangements for music students; the vinyl records, which are mostly pop, also include classical, juvenile, jazz and country-western.

The older items are from the music library of David Todd and Catherine (Firestone) Stump, Davis' parents-in-law. Before beginning his teaching career in the 1920s, Mr. Stump studied music at the Lindner School of Music, New Castle, Pennsylvania; Dana Conservatory in Warren, Ohio; and in Europe. One of his early teaching positions was instructor of violin, orchestra and chorus at Cottey College, Nevada, Missouri, 1924-1929. The Stumps were both music teachers, and most of the scores were apparently collected for use with their students, as they consist of a variety from simple piano and violin pieces and beginners' lesson books to multi-instrument arrangements for small orchestras and bands. Some of the early sheet music had also belonged to Mrs. Stump's sisters, Onez and Allegra.

The recordings of later years were collected by Mr. Davis and his children and many are radio station copies of the popular music of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.