The collection consists of two letters, a report, and an invoice. On October 1, 1947, Robert C. Powell, secretary of the Moorlands Addition Board of Agents, wrote to the other two members of the board (Edward A. Simon, chairman; and T.J. Hargadon, treasurer) enclosing the two letters, report, and invoice.

The matter under discussion is the noncompliance of apartment building owners with one of the subdivision’s racial restrictions, or covenants, which stated that no person “not wholly of Caucasian blood” be allowed to occupy any building. The board hired attorney G.W. Marsalek, who then hired Fred C. Schillinger, to investigate the janitors in the apartment buildings in order to ascertain exactly who resides in the buildings. Powell’s letter explains that Marsalek was working with building owners to comply with the restriction where janitors resided in buildings with their wives and children. However, Powell explains that the report will be helpful if the board decides to file lawsuits to force compliance.

The three-page report explains how Schillinger obtained information, his conclusions, and a list of properties employing African-American men as janitors. The list includes the names of building owners, real estate management agents/companies, names of janitors, the janitors’ marital statuses, and the number of people living in the apartments.