The cabinet contains documents that preserve traditions and other details about pre-Christian Latvian tribes.

[3] When the amount of texts approached 150,000 in 1893, Barons and his work returned to Latvia from Moscow.

[6][7] Before the relocation to the National Library and it being placed on public display, the Cabinet of Folksongs was insured for one million euros.

[3] In 2001, The Cabinet of Folksongs was included in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

[1] The cabinet's three large drawers at the bottom store archive materials.