Thank you notes, high school and college graduation invitations, birthday party invitation sent to James and Deborah Broadway from the Charles, Zuniga and Castro families, memorial card, notes on memorial for Geraldine “Boo Boo” Orta-Charles, two tickets for the Ford Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza , 2004-2020

Archival materials received from James Broadway, mariachi musician and student of Benjamin Valdez. Materials date from the late 1930s-2021 and are comprised primarily of manuscript copies and research materials for a memoir of Benjamin Valdez, founding member of the seminal music group Los Conquistadores (active late 1930s-1970s) with Jose Morante and Enrique Rodriguez. Materials include handwritten stories, song lyrics, music notation, artifacts, ephemera, photographs of notable musicians/groups (Trio Los Conquistadores, Rosita Fernandez, Tito Guizar, Jesse Orta, Geraldine Orta-Charles, James Broadway, Mariachi del Alamo and Mariachi y Coro de Colores), clippings pertaining to mariachi musicians and the mariachi mass tradition at Mission San Jose along with memorials and obituaries of mariachi musicians including Valdez, Jesse Orta and Geraldine Orta-Charles. Fragile audiovisual media within this collection include cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs and VHS tapes.