Scope and Content Correspondence, photographs, slides, negatives, films, postcards, holy cards, financial records, articles, pamphlets, record albums, and lectures and editorials by Maurice Lavanoux. Correspondents include Jacques Maritain, Archbishop Robert Lucey, Monsignor Reynold Hillenbrand, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Bishop Edwin V. O'Hara, Marc Chagall, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ivan Mestrovic, Siegfried Guggenheim, Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, Francis W. Kervick, Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, Harvey Cox...

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Personal correspondence, 1917-1920, and correspondence of the Liturgical Arts Society, 1955-1972; bound handwritten diaries of Lavanoux concerning liturgical arts, 1950-1974; by-laws and constitution of the Liturgical Arts Society; class notes taken by Lavanoux, 1915-1920; book-length autobiographical manuscript by Lavanoux, Never a Dull Moment ; and clippings about Lavanoux and liturgical arts.

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Correspondence, articles, offprints, clippings, newsletters, brochures, photographs, and other documents representing Maurice Lavanoux continuing interest in modern liturgical art and architecture and his efforts to organize a Society for the Renewal of Christian Art to carry on the work of the Liturgical Arts Society.