The Papers of the Trousdale Theatrical Troupes include photographs, newspaper clippings, playbills and itineraries concerning vaudeville performances. Also included is an Actors' Equity Association booklet, which explains the benefits of membership and provides a sample contract form, circa 1919. The association was affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Several members of the various family companies used pocket-sized journals to record business dates and expenses, as well as to serve as diaries and scrapbooks. One such journal in box 4, folder1, dated 1928, includes character drawings of popular plays of the 1920s, possibly by second generation performer, Neil Norman Trousdale. Another journal includes a photograph of bears in an unidentified zoo. Still another, dated 1930, housed in box 4, folder 5, is inscribed as "...the most disastrous year of my life". The ledger dated September 1928-December 1929, housed in box 4, folder 2, includes a loose note titled "Second Generation" of performers. Some journals include observations about the weather. Materials related to Truly Trousdale Latchaw include photographs, a photocopy of her University of Minnesota M.A. thesis, and a video cassette of her performance of "Daughter of the Theater," in September 1981. This particular performance was held at Golden Age Home in Minneapolis, Minnesota. However, Latchaw performed "Daughter of the Theater" in 37 towns during 1982, including the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa. Box one contains a draft of Truly's book, Trousdale Brothers Tonight!, which was published by J. R. Latchaw in 1993.