The Bowman papers include correspondence, inter-office memos, certificates, newspaper clippings, albums and scrapbooks, journalism class assignments, class lecture notes, editorial budgets, genealogy, photographs, publications, and memorabilia.

Contains personal and professional correspondence as well as personal items belonging to Will W. Bowman including: special police badge, notebook, newspaper clipping of poetry, and Bowman's birth certificate, circa 1922-1973.

Book published for fund raising of Utah chapter of Sigma Delta Chi of which Bowman was treasurer, entitled "What's L.S.D., Coach?"

Contains certificates of membership in organizations such as: Sigma Delta Chi Professional Journalistic Fraternity, Public Relationship Society of America, Srahhard and Blade and Northwest Electric Light & Power Association as well as an award of the official A from The Student Body Organization at Utah Agricultural College, undated.

Contains personal and professional documents such as photocopied business cards, press passes, 50 cent bail reciept, invoices and a mortgage signed by Bowman and his wife, Hazel, undated.

Contains Bowman's professional correspondence and a book of rememberence for Eunice Wattis, Bowman's mother, circa 1936-1958.

Contains materials relating to Bowman's personal life and family. Items include personal letters addressed to several members of the Wattis family; genealogy starting with Lyman Corey, his great-grandfather; an affidavit from Eunice Wattis Bowman asserting that Will W. Bowman is her son and verifying his birth; as well as newspaper clippings commemorating the death of W. H. Wattis, undated.

Contains newspaper clippings compiled by Bowman which pertain to his family and friends. Most of the clippings are obituaries or news of the deaths of Bowman's family members, undated.

Contains the personal letters, newspaper clippings, and marriage certificate of Bowman's mother, Eunice Wattis Bowman, undated.