Indian opera productions composed by Hanson, musical scores, research material, and scrapbooks and photos based on ceremonies and music of the Ute Indians of Colorado and Utah. Operas included are: "Sun Dance," produced in New York City, 1938, "Bear Dance," and "The Bleeding Heart," a white man's fantasy of an imaginary Indian people who lived at the base of Mount Timpanogos in Utah.

Includes grade transcripts, class rolls, sheets of music and correspondence. The collection spans the dates 1952 to 1996, and also includes scholarship application forms and various records from Bradshaw's teaching years and tenure at Brigham Young University as well as articles he as written such as "Letters to a Young Mormon Composer."

Collection includes photographs of the production of the Tribute to Max Steiner program produced by the Brigham Young University Department of Music in April 1981.