Hesburgh Libraries

Scope and Contents This collection consists of printed media guides for men's college ice hockey teams in the United States and Canada. Media guides were typically published by colleges or universities on an annual basis prior to each ice hockey season. The guides generally included a review of the previous season (including statistics), a preview of the upcoming season (including schedules and opponent information), and photographs and bios of players, coaches, and staff. Other content sometimes included...

Scope and Contents This collection contains annual publications in magazine format devoted primarily to men’s professional basketball in the United States. Some magazines also provide information about basketball teams and leagues at other levels. The magazines published prior to the season—or sometimes during the season—generally included reviews of the previous year’s season; team and players statistics; and previews of the upcoming—or in-progress—season, including information about leagues, teams, players...

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A logbook documenting the 1839-40 voyage into the Atlantic of the American whaler Meridian.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of magazines and illustrations assembled by Michael Oriard on the single subject of football dating from 1834 to 2012, though the bulk of the material pertains to the twentieth century. The majority of images are held within the original publications and are a visual record of the early years of football and offer comprehensive documentation of football's distinctive place in American culture. Significant publications include: Harper’s Weekly,...

Scope and Contents The Michael Perkins Papers consist of the professional and personal papers of Michael Perkins (1942-), a poet, critic, editor, and erotic fiction author. His professional materials represent his writing process for his fiction and poetry, from proposals sent to publishing houses, to multiple rough drafts of his works, to final proofs, as well as publicity for published materials. Also included is a large collection of editorial correspondence with literary agents and publishing houses. Along...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of State Department copies of documents sent by British Ambassador Lord Lyons to U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward on 8 August 1863, now being forwarded, on 13 August, to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, accompanied by a cover letter signed by Seward. The case itself was months old, and had spawned a good deal of paperwork prior to the appearance of this particular batch of documents. The two key items are; 1) a seven-page affidavit of Quinn's describing...

Scope and Contents The papers document the professional life of Mikhail Naumovich Kalik (1927-2017), a celebrated Soviet and Israeli film director and screenwriter. The papers consist of official documents, contracts, film scripts and stills, photographs on film sets, professional correspondence, press releases, promotional materials, posters, and copies of Kalik’s feature films and documentary films. Also included in the Archive are published and unpublished manuscripts by Kalik, copies of...

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Twenty-five advertising promotional cards, measuring 5 by 7 inches, published by the Milo Bar-bell Company. The cards feature weightlifters and strongmen in various poses, showing their muscles or exercising with various barbells and dumbbells. Many of the cards feature men posing while wearing little clothing. The original mailing envelope advertises the Milo Bar-bell Company, but none of the individual promotional cards reference the Milo Bar-bell Company.

Scope and Contents This collection contains more than 2,300 programs and scorecards published by Minor League Baseball teams. Teams published programs and scorecards for purchase by fans attending the games. The programs and scorecards usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial over the years and sometimes contain additional information about the teams, players, coaches, and...

Scope and Contents This collection contains more than 750 programs published by Minor League Hockey teams. Teams, venues, and other vendors published programs for purchase by fans. Many of the earlier programs were published by the arenas in which the teams played and include content on attractions other than hockey. The programs usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial over...

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About two-thirds of this collection consists of Hinds County, Mississippi probate records from the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras, pertaining to the settlement of 12 local estates. The remainder includes miscellaneous 19th-century court and business records from elsewhere in Mississippi, and from Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee.

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Personal and military documents of Lt. Morris Cooper Foote, 9th Infantry, United States Army, along with related Congressional documents. Included in the collection is a manuscript diary recording Foote's experiences from 1866 to 1869 in Alaska (its first 19 months as a U.S. territory) and from 1869 to 1871 in the Department of the Platte.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 220 individual periodical issues with covers that feature boxer Muhammad Ali. The collection includes about sixty different titles. Boxing magazines include titles like Natonal Police Gazette, The Ring, and Boxing Digest. General sports magazines include magazines like Sports Illustrated and World Sports. General interest magazines include...

Scope and Contents This collection contains media guides published by NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing). The annual guides published prior to each NASCAR season generally included a review of the previous season including statistics and race results, a preview of the upcoming season, and driver profiles. Other content sometimes included broader material about the history of races or racetracks and other information for the media. Many guides contain pictures and advertisements. Over the...

Scope and Contents The Fleischer collection includes professional and some personal papers of boxing writer and publisher Nat Fleischer. Most prevalent are carbon-copy typescripts of Fleischer's articles, serialized features, and books. There are manuscripts or manuscript drafts, whole or partial, relating to many of his published books, including biographies of boxers John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Terry McGovern, Jack McAuliffe, Gene Tunney, and Jack Dempsey (among others). There are also manuscripts...

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A journal of sermon notes compiled by the Puritan divine Nathaniel Rogers (1598-1655), before and after his emigration from England to Massachusetts in 1636. The volume contains notes for at least 19 sermons audited by Rogers, and more than 100 composed by him.

Scope and Contents This collection contains nearly 1,000 programs and scorecards issued for National Basketball Association games. Teams, arenas, and other vendors published programs and scorecards for purchase by fans attending the games. The programs and scorecards usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial over the years and sometimes contain additional information about the...

Scope and Contents This collection contains media guides published by National Basketball Association. The annual guides published prior to each NBA season generally included a review of the previous season (including statistics), a preview of the upcoming season (including schedules and opponent information), and photographs and bios of players, coaches, and staff. Other content sometimes included broader material about the history of the franchise, information about the city, and other information for...

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This collection consists of National Basketball Association annual team yearbooks. Aimed at fans, yearbooks typically contained information and articles about players, managers, and coaches, as well as statistics and schedules. Most yearbooks also featured numerous photographs of players and personnel and other team-related images. Some yearbooks contained advertisements. Formats include yearbooks.

Scope and Contents This collection contains about 50 programs and scorecards issued for National Basketball League games. Teams, arenas, and other vendors published programs and scorecards for purchase by fans attending the games. The programs and scorecards usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial over the years and sometimes contain additional information about the teams,...

Scope and Contents This collection contains media guides published by teams in the National Football League. The annual guides published prior to each NFL season generally included a review of the previous season (including statistics), a preview of the upcoming season (including schedules and opponent information), and photographs and bios of players, coaches, and staff. Other content sometimes included broader material about the history of the franchise, information about the city, and other information for...

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This collection contains pre-season prospectuses published by teams in the National Football League. The annual prospectuses generally included biographies of coaches and players, statistics, schedules, and other information. The prospectuses—produced closer to the beginning of the pre-season—were often typed and mimeographed and were less extensive than the contemporaneous team media guides.

Formats include prospectuses.

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This collection consists of National Football League annual team yearbooks. Aimed at fans, yearbooks typically contained information and articles about players, managers, and coaches, as well as statistics and schedules. Most yearbooks also featured numerous photographs of players and personnel and other team-related images. Some yearbooks contained advertisements.

Formats include yearbooks.

Scope and Contents The collection contains material related to the Chicago-based National Girls Baseball League, a professional league that rivaled the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. The collection chiefly consists of copies of the official magazine/program of the National Girls Baseball League published under various titles from 1949 to 1953 by Publishers, Inc. (1949) and by Merrell Features (1950-1953). The programs typically contain pictures, biographies, articles, and statistics about the...

Scope and Contents This collection contains nearly 600 media guides published by teams in the National Hockey League. The annual guides published prior to each NHL season generally included a review of the previous season (including statistics), a preview of the upcoming season (including schedules and opponent information), and photographs and bios of players, coaches, and staff. Other content sometimes included broader material about the history of the franchise, information about the city, and other...

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This collection consists of about 70 National Hockey League annual team yearbooks. Aimed at fans, yearbooks typically contained information and articles about players, managers, and coaches, as well as statistics and schedules. Most yearbooks also featured numerous photographs of players and personnel and other team-related images. Some yearbooks contained advertisements.

Scope and Contents This collection contains nearly 750 programs or scorecards issued for games involving National Hockey League teams. Teams, venues, and other vendors published programs for purchase by fans. Many of the earlier programs were published by the arenas in which the teams played and include content on attractions other than the NHL. The programs usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer,...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of the National Ideal Benefit Society (NIBS), an African American insurance cooperative headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. It also contains related papers of NIBS founder A.W. Holmes. The correspondence in the collection is mostly written by African Americans, from NIBS policy holders to leaders of the African American community. There is also correspondence between A.W. Holmes and various local churches and benefit societies, national charitable...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of printed material related to the National Women’s Football League (NWFL) and predecessor teams associated with the Women’s Professional Football League. The NWFL was a professional American tackle football league that existed from 1974 through 1988. The collection includes programs, yearbooks, guidebooks, ephemera, and clippings. The programs and yearbooks typically contain rosters, player bios and photographs, coaches bios and photographs, team histories, rules,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of programs for the NCAA Division 1 Women’s Softball Championships, also known as the Women College World Series. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, bios, and statistics about the players on the teams competing in the Women’s College World Series, as well as pictures, information, and bios about coaches, team personnel, and administrators. The programs usually also contain articles about contemporary softball, information about the host schools and...