The collection includes sixteen scrapbooks and a few loose documents. The scrapbooks contain newsletter clippings, personal notations, photographs, and mimeographed reports covering the years 1961 through 1973. The Migrant Ministry scrapbooks serve as an ethnographic record of Grand Valley’s seasonal agricultural laborers between 1961 and 1973. They also chronicle the Grand Valley chapter of a statewide ecumenical social service program called the Migrant Ministry.

Dorothy Power’s scrapbooks record local migrant culture and history, including socioeconomic issues and civil rights concerns; they also provide the context of regional and national historical trends and news reports. Power used newspaper and newsletter articles, photographs, personal notes, and occasional Migrant Ministry reports to document the local migrant workers.

Also included are Migrant Ministry scrapbooks created by Evelyn Van Regenmorter and Carol Marsman, whose chronicles have a more personal, memoir-like style. The Van Regnmorter/Marsman scrapbooks feature photographs with handwritten reflections and observations.

Housing, education, day care, health status, recreation, discrimination, worker documentation, fair compensation for tasks performed, Native American and Hispanic traditions, and spiritual well-being are concerns featured in the scrapbooks. Also addressed are agricultural business owner concerns such as weather and resultant harvest loss, labor costs, mechanization trends, in addition to migrant worker political and legal issues.

Most of the news articles are from the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, while others are sourced from the Denver Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the National Peach Council newsletter Peach-Times, the Farmer’s Union Magazine, the Rocky Mountain Churchman, and a newsletter for the Colorado Council of Churches entitled The Church Councillor.