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George Nauman Shuster Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: SHU

Scope and Content

Correspondence, reports, minutes, interviews, notebooks, clippings, contracts with publishers, and drafts of essays, speeches, and books; including letters from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jacques Maritain, Padraic Colum, Hilaire Belloc, Van Wyck Brooks, Francis J. Sheed, Saul Alinsky, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Heinrich Bruning, and Konrad Adenauer; with material pertaining to his visits to Germany in 1937- 1938, 1945, and 1950-1951, his conversations with German intellectuals, politicians, soldiers and refugees, his work with UNESCO, and his service on the Board of Trustees of the James Picker Foundation for Radiological Research, the Broadcasting Foundation of America, Briar Cliff College, and the Industrial Areas Foundation; also a phonograph record of the funeral of Winston Churchill, photographs, and books.

Dates

  • Creation: 1918-1977.

Creator

Language of Materials

English.

Background

Notre Dame student, 1911-1915; faculty member and head of the Department of English, 1920-1924; an editor of The Commonweal, 1925-1937; President of Hunter College, 1940- 1960; State Commissioner for Bavaria, 1950-1951; Assistant to the President of Notre Dame, 1960-1976.

Extent

15 linear feet. 1 record album. 1 linear foot of photographs. 35 linear feet of printed material.

Title
George Nauman Shuster Papers
Subtitle
Guide
Author
University of Notre Dame Archives
Date
2005
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the University of Notre Dame Archives Repository

Contact:
607 Hesburgh Library
Notre Dame Indiana 46556 United States
(574) 631-6448