This week I was provided with a small collection to survey. I was given 3 boxes of files containing the archives of the Catholic Church Extension Society. The Catholic Church Extension Society is an organization founded by Father Francis Clement Kelley, in 1905, that raises money in order to fund the building and maintenance of Catholic churches in isolated regions of the U.S. The society was responsible for raising money and dispersing it to various parishes as well as providing ceremonial decorations and artifacts. The purpose of this was to provide support and funding to develop churches in poorer regions.
Today I started going through the first box of files labelled the "Catholic Church Extension Society Correspondence Letters: 1920-1923". Most of these files contain letters from priests and bishops asking for assistance in funding their churches as well as the corresponding letters either granting or denying funding. As part of my job, I have to sort through each individual letter and find important information, such as who the letters are written to and from, the dates of the letters, and what they are concerning. This information will be helpful in the future when trying to organize the material into a filed system.
To learn more about the Catholic Church Extension Society, including their history and their mission, you can check out their website here.
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