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The school's Board of Trustees records (1935, 1940, 1944-1946) are slight, but other documentation is present concerning finances and the closing of Gailor Industrial School, dating from 1919 to 1951. ACI Director's correspondence (1938-1944) is with Gailor's principal and the Bishop of Tennessee, and with others concerning the school's building projects. Historical information can be found in historical summaries (1924-1928), publicity (1943), and a survey report of the school by the George Peabody College for Teachers (1946).

A small and somewhat artificial collection of the organization’s records are maintained as Series 4 of the Records of Forward Movement. It includes early records, especially the Joint Commission’s report, a scrapbook (compiled by the Bishop Edward L. Parsons), correspondence and some ephemera. The Parsons scrapbook was left intact for its artifactual value. It serves as a record of the early years of Forward Movement from 1935-1937. Catalogs make up a large part of the records and document the agency's publication run. Some promotional materials exist from 1934-1943.

Amounting to approximately 25 cubic feet, the Forward Movement Publications Collection currently spans the period 1934-2021. The print publication record begins in 1935. The collection is defined by four series: (1) Serial Publications: Out-of-print Publications; (2) Serial Publications: Forward Day by Day; and (3) Books and Pamphlets. (A fourth series of records is separately cataloged). The Out-of-print Publications in Series 1 are organized alphabetically by serial name and then chronologically by year. Series 2 consists of one Forward Movement serial publication which is still in-print – "Forward Day by Day,"and is arranged chronologically by year.

The archive contains mostly correspondence of the director, charter and by-laws, Trustee records, personnel files, programs of study, some addresses, and ephemera; organized to recognize the two school entities.

Records documenting the operation and programs carried out during the period of the Board of Missions and loosely reporting to and/or funded by the Board of National Council in an official capacity. Some Board of Missions fonds or records may be found with a continuing body or function of a National Council successor unit, or with a continuing Executive Council entity.

The papers of Frederic W. Fitts include sermons, commentaries, observations, and writings relating to the liturgy, worship protocols, and sacramental elements of Christian life.

Generally includes the business and operational records of the treasurer or chief financial office, the controller, and other unit directors responsible for the administration of financial assets and reporting responsibilities, for control and reporting of gifts, and other asset-related duties assigned by General Convention or Executive Council.

Records of the proceedings and directly supervised programs of the entities under the management of the Executive Council. Records include proceedings, minutes, reports, documents, governance records, and some administrative records. With the consolidation of executive powers under the primate after 1973, staff offices typically associated with the National/Executive Council were placed under the authority of the Presiding Bishop acting as mission program or administrative entities. These staff offices exist as a separate categories of mission program or in their administrative capacity with the DFMS.

The Executive Council meeting dockets were generated through the work of the members and staff of the committees and commissions of the Executive Council. They include agendas, minutes of meetings, charters, status reports as well as financial statements and reports, budgets, and Treasurer's reports.

The records and reports reflect the policies of the General Convention as carried out and administered by the Executive Council as well as the structure and organization of the church.

Minutes of Executive Council and other reporting governing bodies comprise the majority of these records. Organizations represented in these records include the Joint Program Planning Committee (1959-1966) and the Council on Ministry. Two non-Episcopal organizations are also represented. The first of these, the Career Development Council was an ecumenical career counseling organization in which The Episcopal Church participated. The Executive Council commissioned the second organization, the Bureau of Applied Social Research of Columbia University, to conduct a study called "Anglican Opportunities in South America."

This collection contains extensive organizational materials for over 100 years of its operation, particularly 1867 through the 1960s. It is particularly strong in the area of corporate minutes and reports, financial history, membership, publications, and grant awards. There is also a fine set of recorded sermons that may have been created as exemplars for educational purposes.

The records of the Episcopal Women’s History Project contains interviews and corresponding transcripts conducted with eighteen distinguished Episcopal women along with photographs, printed materials, and correspondence relating to the interviewees. These interviews span 1979 to 1991 with the majority taking place between 1981 and 1986. Additionally, the collection contains a questionnaire and its associated responses and correspondence that was sent to thirty-eight Episcopal women leaders in an attempt to document their experiences in the Church.

The Episcopal Theological School (ETS) archives broadly documents the administration, governance, instruction, and community of The Episcopal Church’s seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts before its merger with the Philadelphia Divinity School (PDS) to form the Episcopal Divinity School (EDS). The records include the Board of Trustees and Board of Visitors; extensive financial records; student matriculation and performance records; records of the Deans and faculty; records of the ETS chapel, alumni association, and student organizations; and publications such as the ETS Bulletin and Catalog. The archive features audio recordings of sermons and conference proceedings made during important ETS events, as well as photographs of graduating classes, buildings, and seminary life. The ETS Centennial, celebrated in 1967 with conferences, commemorative events, and a major capital campaign, is well documented.

Much of these records date from the first fifty years of the Church Mission of Help (CMH), when its primary focus was on social services. These records include the annual file, containing documents related to the organization’s annual accomplishments; sub-committees and member agencies file; and the majority of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors minutes and reports, which are accompanied by associated documents such as the bylaws and constitution. Additionally, the general file contains documents related to conferences in which the CMH participated, as well as miscellaneous materials such as case worker evaluations, clippings, and correspondence related to Executive Secretary Edith Balmford (1950-1960).

The financial records from this period are concentrated towards the later decades, with most of them beginning in the 1940s. Notable exceptions include some ledgers, beginning in 1920; documents related to the Standing Committee on Trust Funds, also beginning in 1920; and documents related to scholarships and fellowships, spanning 1910 through 1972. The CMH’s final years are most heavily represented in the remaining financial records, including budgets, financial statements, correspondence, cash receipts, and income; however, there are also organizational histories from the late 1960s and Executive Committee and Board of Directors minutes and reports from 1960 through 1975.