SERIES I: Personal (1843-1971) The series consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings and publications featuring Mrs. Booth Vogel and her family. The Ralph Harman Booth subseries includes items related to appointment as American Minister to Denmark. The Virginia Booth Vogel subseries includes personal art work, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and five folders of clippings and correspondence related to her wedding in Denmark.

SERIES II: Gifts (1924-1984) includes correspondence, receipts, inventories, photographs, and clippings that relate to the Booth/Vogel art collections and patronage of museums.

SERIES III: Personal Art Collection (1905-1964). The RHB/MBB subseries consists primarily of inventories and correspondence regarding art works. The Virginia Booth Vogel subseries consists of art works sold.

The Gift and Personal Art Collection series are an excellent resource for researchers interested in the collections of art museums, as well as the provenance and value of the works of art included in the collection. Detailed records of purchases, donations and sales were kept and the materials are arranged in original order.

SERIES IV: Publications (1919-1924) includes copies of the Henry Wood Booth’s work, Selections from “Peregrinations and Cogitations of a Church Tramp,” volumes 1 and 2. This series also contains two small publications: The Gynocrats, by Henry Wood Booth and a guide book to Christ Church Cranbrook, written by Henry Scripps Booth and published by the Cranbrook Press.

SERIES V: Scrapbooks (1921-1989) contains three scrapbooks that Virginia Booth Vogel created with photographs and ephemera. This series also includes a scrapbook of travel postcards collected by John Lord Booth on his travels. There are additional scrapbooks in the Oversized series.

SERIES VI: Oversized (1904-1982) includes sketches drawn by Virginia Booth Vogel, oversize publications pertaining to the Booth and Vogel families, and scrapbooks.

SERIES VII: Realia (1920) consists of Virginia Booth Vogel’s collection of charm bracelets. The charms are catalogued as cultural properties.