This collection is comprised of William Orville Shepard's sermons, sermon notes, speeches, Episcopal Book of Discipline, scrapbook, personal publication, and certificate of election to the office of Bishop.

Content consists of lecture notes, a college brochure of Colegio Americano, a newspaper from the same school and photographs of students from Colegio Americano and the Colegio Isabela Hendrix. Photographs are a black and white medium, dating between 1948 and 1955. Lecture notes are on the history of Brazil as well as its culture and the development of education under American and religious forces.