Notes and ephemera relating to the history of the Meyer and Bowman families that were created or accumulated by Hervey Bowman. Includes genealogy records of Meyer family members in Switzerland and in Iowa, one item of correspondence from a family member seeking copies of the information, notes on the life of E.M. Bowman, a death certificate for Henry Rudy who died in Nashville, Tennessee during the American civil war, a list of Ferguson grandchildren, a note regarding Mr. Right's fence in Woolwich, and a note certifying John Meyer as an agent of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company.

Trip diary, notes, sketches, and tourist ephemera relating to a trip taken by Hervey Bowman and George Wiegand in 1929, to Pennsylvania, on the 150th anniversary of the death of Christian Meyer. Hervey and his brothers Frank and Arthur tracked down family gravestones and re-erected Christian Meyer's stone in 1929. Blueprints of gravestones, actual size, were made by Arthur Bowman.