Series I. Administrative Materials includes any documents that were created by the committee in relation to the work they were doing. This series has been divided into three subseries.

Subseries A. Fundraising includes letters to and from many organizations that the committee sought financial support from. There are also Thank You notes to the groups that donated money.

Subseries B. Sponsor Files includes the files the committee created for the donors who were intimately involved with the planning and funding of the 300th year celebration. These folders have retained their original titles.

Subseries C. Other includes the rest of the documents in the collection related to the administrative workings of the committee. There are documents with copyright and publication information for various pieces of commemorative ephemera. There is also the agreement with the city of Salem and minutes from some committee meetings.