The collection is comprised of items collected by Mildred Gadson. These include her school report cards, an infant care card from Homer G. Phillips Hospital, the program from David Peaston’s Celebration of Love event, and three programs from her grandchildren’s school activities. Most notable is a scrapbook about members of Calvary Missionary Baptist Church. Materials date from 1939 to 2007, with a large date gap from 1958 to 2000. Items are arranged alphabetically by topic and type of document. The scrapbook is comprised of 20 pages along with loose items (f.3) and is quite fragile. It includes primarily photographs and clipped published photographs of mostly female members of Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, and newspaper clippings dated from 1940 to 1957. Notes, dated late 1953, which appear under several photographs identify the people and their roles in the church. Unfortunately, several of these descriptive notes were written near the edges of the acidic scrapbook paper and have broken away over time. Several of the photographs are identified as members of the Women’s Missionary Union, Young People’s Group, Usher’s Board and other church groups. The loose items include newspaper clippings and three unidentified photographs, possibly from a church event.