This collection contains the personal papers of Heber L. Olson and several members of his family, including his grandparents Lars E. and Anna Olson, his parents Erick L. and Ingrid Olson, and his children Clyde, Heber, Frank, Gene John, LaRue, Florence, Opal and Ruth.

The papers contain many of the family's legal documents, including deeds, insurance policies, and Heber Olson's will. The papers also contain correspondence from Olson to his wife during a trip to California in 1929. Additionally, the collection contains many pages from a family scrapbook containing a variety of documents from multiple family members, with notations from one of Olson's children explaining the attached materials.