Boxes 1 through 4 of the collection include Bob DeArmond’s “Juno’s Days of Yore”; “News of the Gold Camps”; statehood-related writings, articles, clippings, reports and bills; “The Postal History of Yukon Territory” by R.G. Woodall; obituaries from late 1800’s gathered from Alaskan sources; articles on steamers, fishing vessels, and other marine information from Ketchikan’s Daily Alaska Fishing News; and significant dates in Alaskan aviation, dates of shipwrecks.

Boxes 5 through 12 include the clippings, notes, manuscripts, and other ephemera R. N. “Bob” DeArmond collected for use in articles, columns and books. Also included are notes, file cards and indexes by DeArmond. The files cover the period from 1861-1980. The second half of Box 12 and Box 13, donated by Patricia “Pat” Roppell, contain the manuscript of DeArmond’s dory trip from Sitka to Tacoma and numerous De Armond columns and articles published in local newspapers. Included, also, are correspondence, articles and photographs on the topic of the Willow Creek Mining District, sent from Al W. Reeder of Palmer, Alaska, to Bob DeArmond when he was editor of the Alaska Sportsman.Box 14, also donated by Patricia Roppell, contains two sets of note cards, filed alphabetically. One set represents Bob’s and Pat’s notes on people, places, and events in Alaska history. Pat described them as “partially originals and a lot of Xeroxes. . . If there are penciled cards, then they are my notes and I filed them with Bob’s.” The second set of cards are “Bob’s boat notes on the commercial boats that went up the Stikine River.”