Clippings, photographs, cards, sermons, handbooks, oral history interviews and other records mainly relating to Consuella York's ministry as a chaplain at the Cook County Jail, but also describing her childhood growing up on the south side of Chicago, her conversion, religious education, and work as a pastor.

The materials in this collection consist of miscellaneous items from Rev. York's life, mostly relating to her prison ministry. They include newspaper and magazine clippings, volunteer manuals and forms, card from prisoners, transcripts, tapes of oral history interviews, certificates, and a video tape about her work. Most of the materials in the files, including her ordination and Chicago Baptist Institute certificates in folder 1-3 are duplicates. A few of these copies were made by the archives staff but most of them were among the material received about by the archives. Most of the materials in the collection date from 1976 and after. The material was organized into files by the archivist.