These archives contain documentation from the founding of the organization through the 2010s. These records are arranged in the following 10 series:

Series 1 - Publications of the ITG (Journal, Newsletter, etc.)

Series 2 - Publications received by the ITG (alphabetically arranged)

Series 3 - Constitution and By-Laws (chronologically arranged)

Series 4 - Board of Directors Meetings (chronologically arranged)

Series 5 - Correspondence (chronologically arranged) This series consists of the ITG official correspondence of a general nature. It includes outgoing and received correspondence of the president, as well as other officials of the ITG. There is significant overlap between and among the General Correspondence and the files of various working committees of the organization such as Commissions, Competitions, Conferences, and others.

Series 6 - Committees The ITG had several committees including: Commissioning and Recordings Committee, Competitions Committee (and various subcommittees); Membership Committee (with a subcommittee on Affiliated Chapters); Nomination Committee, Planning/Host/Annual Conference Planning Committee; Project Committee (with various subcommittees); Publications Committee and Publicity/Public Relations Committee

Commissioning and Recordings Committee The records of this committee, such as the choice of composer to write commissions, negotiating with the composers or agents, etc., are filed chronologically. The music is filed separately after the routine committee records, also by year and thereunder alphabetically

Competition Committee These folders contain materials relating to the following competitions: Conference Scholarship Competition, Ellsworth Smith Biennial Solo Performance Competition, Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo, Jazz Improvisation and Mock Orchestra Audition Competition.

Membership Committee This committee dealt with the recruitment and registration of members, including the local and international chapters, as well as the preparation of the member directories. The published directories are filed in Series 1 - Publications.

Membership Committee - Affiliated Chapters

Nomination Committee The sparse documentation of this committee, mainly from 1975-1976, is included in Series 5 - General Correspondence.

Planning/Host Committee The Planning Committee was also known at various time as the Annual Conference Planning Committee or the Host Committee.

Projects Committee

Most of the sparse documentation of this committee is included in Series 5 - General Correspondence. Among the projects were the Archives, the H. L. Clarke Recording (mainly 1978-1979) and Handbook/Manual (1979 and 1985). Correspondence and other documentation relating to the ITG Archives, including indexes and finding aids, are filed in Series 10 - Archives.

Public Relations Committee The documentation of this committee, mainly from 1975-1979 is included in Series 5 - General Correspondence.

Publications Committee This committee dealt with decisions on layout, editing, printing, distribution, mailing labels and other activities relating to the Journal, the Newsletter, brochures, posters, flyers and promotional materials. The documentation of this committee, mainly from 1978 and 1979, is included in Series 5 - General Correspondence.

Series 7 - ITG Conferences and Other Events The ITG annual conference/festival folders include only the material generated during the conferences, such as programs, recordings, papers presented, last minute logistical changes, etc. Other materials, such as invitations to presenters, negotiations with exhibitors/vendors, thank-you notes after the conference, etc. are filed with Series 6 - Host/Planning for Annual Conference Committee. For some annual conferences there is significant overlap with the General Correspondence (series 5) and the Planning Committee (Series 6). Materials relating to the annual business meetings held concurrently with the annual conference are filed in Series 4 - Board of Directors' Meetings, as are the annual midwinter and ad hoc meeting materials. The ITG's annual conference materials are filed first in this Series, followed by "Other Events", which include mostly music symposia, conferences, presentations and other events of interest to the ITG. These non-ITG event materials are filed alphabetically by name of event and chronologically thereunder.

Series 8 - Photographs

Processor's note - These materials are semi-processed and contain mostly group shots or candid photos taken at various events such as the ITG conferences or regional and international competitions and festivals, such as the International Brass Congress and other venues. Some were printed in the ITG Journal.Photographs of various ITG conference are filed chronologically by the date of the conference. Photographs of individuals and groups are arranged alphabetically. Some folders originally contained correspondence, usually related to a particular event. Correspondence has been moved to either Series 5 - Correspondence or Series 6 - Committees - Planning.

Series 9 - Audio-Visual (A/V) Materials

This series contains recordings of ITG annual conferences, meetings and other events and brass-related events. They are in a variety of formats, from reel-to-reel through cassette tapes and CDs up to and including hard-drives. Recordings of ITG annual conferences are arranged by date of conference. Other materials are arranged by date if available - if not, they are listed in no particular order.

Series 10 - Archives Discussions of an ITG archives began with the Projects Committee in 1980. It was first established within the Dalton Center Music Library at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI in January of 1983, where it remained until its transfer to the Schwob Library's archives Columbus State University's Archives. Various lists of recordings of music and meetings, as well as copies of finding aids and other materials developed by WMU, CSU or ITG staff relating to archival holdings or activities are filed in this series. The recordings themselves are filed under Series 9 -- A-V Materials.

1970s-2018 45 boxes (35 l.f.)

Special Collections (SC) In addition to materials generated by the International Trumpet Guild, their archives also include the papers of 3 individuals: Vincent Bach (1890-1976), Gil Mitchell (1925-2016) and Edna White Chandler (1892-1992).

The Bach materials are Special Collection 1 (ITG SC 1) and consists of the personal scores, manuscripts and sheet music that belonged to Bach, a cornet virtuoso and maker of brass instruments and mouthpieces. Bach's collection has many out of print and rare solo works as well as sheet music with publication dates form the 19th century. There are hundreds of solo works with piano written for cornet, bugle, flugelhorn or trumpet. There are also over 200 solo works with orchestra, wind band and in small chamber settings, apparently with all parts available and intact.

The Gil material, Special Collection 2 (ITG SC2), belonged to Gil Mitchell (b. 1925), famed trumpet soloist, conductor and co-founder of the US Army Herald Trumpets. Bach gave his collection to his good friend Mitchell who added it to his own extensive music collection. Mitchell's own collection contains manuscript pieces for trumpet ensembles of various sizes as well as a large number of trumpet solos with piano.

The other collection, Special Collection 3 (ITG SC3), consists of materials relating to Edna White Chandler (1892-1992), a performer, composer and teacher of the trumpet. these materials include manuscript and printed scores of her compositions, her autobiography, tape recordings and other materials.

1800s-2015 13 boxes (approx. 14 l.f.