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Bund Deutscher Mädel album
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: MSE/MD_6422
Scope and Contents
1 album; 71 photographs accompanied by 16 pages of handwritten text in German. Album includes photographs of Bund Deutscher Mädel (German League Girls) during their hiking trip to Danzig (Gdansk, Poland) and the Baltic Sea from Friday, August 16th to Tuesday, September 3rd, 1940. The photographs are arranged in chronological order. The group went mostly by foot, train, and by steam ship on Vistula river from a camp site in a small village Kolodziejewo near the town of Pakosch (Pakosc,...
Dates:
1940 August-September
Caley Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5024
Abstract
A collection consisting primarily of 29 Civil War manuscript letters written by Union private Charles C. Caley, during his service in Co. F, 105th Ohio Infantry.
Dates:
1862-1867; Majority of material found in 1862-1865
California-Oregon Trail Diary
Item
Identifier: MSN/EA 8014
Abstract
An 1850 overland diary recording an emigrant's passage from Dubuque, Iowa to the Salt Lake Cutoff.
Dates:
1850
Canadian Football League (CFL) Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP 630
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of programs for regular season games in the Canadian Football League and in its predecessor leagues the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union and the Western Interprovincial Football Union. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the game. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, information about the host city, and advertisements. The programs tend to...
Dates:
1953-1971
Canadian Football League (CFL) Team Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBP 545
Scope and Contents
This collection contains media guides published by teams in the Canadian Football League. The annual guides published prior to each CFL 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...
Dates:
1960-2003
Captain Francis O'Neill Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0502
Abstract
A collection of papers relating to the donation of the personal library of Captain Francis O'Neill to the University of Notre Dame, including correspondence with the university and an inventory of O'Neill's library.
Dates:
1918-1933
Captain James Martyn Eaves Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 6417
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the World War I papers of Captain James Martyn (J.M.) Eaves, spanning just before his service, through the war, and into post-war Occupied Europe. The collection contains five diaries in Eaves’ hand specifically detailing his day-to-day experiences in the war. In the back of the diaries, Eaves wrote notes and letter drafts, and enclosed photographs and newspaper clippings. The bulk of the collection consists of letters sent to and from Captain Eaves. The majority of...
Dates:
undated; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1916
Cardinal Magalotti Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSE/EM 1000
Scope and Contents
Of the 214 letters in the collection, 213 are addressed to Cardinal Lorenzo Magalotti, while the final letter is addressed to Cardinal Francesco Barberini, a nephew of both Magalotti and Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini) from Carlo de’ Medici. The collection dates from 1623, from the years preceding Magalotti’s ordination as cardinal to the months preceding his death in September 1637. One hundred and seventeen letters date to the period prior to Magalotti’s appointment as Bishop of...
Dates:
1623-1637
Caribbean Photograph Album
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0101
Scope and Contents
An early tourist's photo album of a voyage around the Caribbean, including images of Cuba, Jamaica, and Saint Thomas. Includes twenty-three original albumen photographs, with twelve flower and plant samples found on the voyage mounted on the album leaves.
Dates:
1873-01-29 - 1873-02-28
Casey-Needham Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 5032
Abstract
192 manuscript letters written by and to members of the Casey and Needham families of Whiting, Vermont, mostly in the 1840s and 50s. Many were written from locations in the South, where several members of the Casey family taught school.
Dates:
1839-1861
Champion Prize Fight Envelopes—Lincoln & Davis in 5 Rounds Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_2011
Scope and Contents
A complete set of five profusely illustrated unused envelope covers which use the sport of boxing as a metaphor for the political and military conflict between the United States of America and the rebellious Confederate States of America in 1861. The images on each envelope depict the ultimately victorious President of the United States Abraham Lincoln and the President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis in a boxing match. The envelopes were published by J. H. Tingley, 152...
Dates:
1861 - 1861
Charabanc Theatre Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 1060
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of the Charabanc Theatre Company, active from 1983-1995.The Charabanc Theatre was founded in Belfast, Northern Ireland by five actresses: Eleanor Methven, Marie Jones, Carol Scanlan (Moore), Brenda Winter, and Maureen McAuley. The company was a significant presence in Irsh theatre, and used improvisational script development in innovative ways to bring its plays to the community, as well as carrying out extensive reseaerch, interviewing community...
Dates:
1983-2000, undated
Charlotte Oelschlagel Neumann Ice Skating Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10014
Content Description
This collection consists of 12 letters and 7 pieces of ephemera chiefly about the professional ice skating career of Charlotte Oelschlagel Neumann, a celebrated German figure skater who performed under the stage name "Charlotte" in the first half of the twentieth century. The correspondence began with letters between American ice skater Dick Button and ice skating collector and historian Arthur N. Foxe in the 1960s discussing ice skating books. Foxe subsequently asked Button to put him in...
Dates:
1915-1968
Chas. Milvo Circus Clown and Acrobat Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10013
Content Description
This collection consists of 26 letters written from the road by a travelling circus clown and acrobat to his wife or girlfiend. The author of the letters, identified only as "Chas.", was a member of "The Milvo's Comedy Acrobats" two-man act then performing with Sells and Gray's Circus. The act consisted of acrobatics and clown antics. The letters written during the summer and fall of 1900 were posted from various cities in southern and southwestern states, including Missouri, Kansas,...
Dates:
July 22, 1900-November 11, 1900
Chicago College Football All-Star Charity Game Programs Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBG 622
Scope and Contents
This collection contains programs for the annual Chicago College Football All-Star Charity game. The game pitted a group of recently graduated college football All-Stars against the previous season’s championship team of the professional National Football League.
Formats include programs.
Dates:
1934-1976
Christopher C. McKinney Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5003
Abstract
5 personal letters written between August 1861 and February 1862 by Confederate army lieutenant Christopher C. McKinney, as regimental adjutant, 8th Tennessee infantry.
Dates:
1861-1862
Cicero R. Barker Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5040
Scope and Contents
A manuscript personal letter written from the defenses of Richmond on 1 December 1864 by Confederate soldier Cicero R. Barker, 8th North Carolina Infantry.
Dates:
1 December 1864
Cleveland Indians Financial Records
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_0022
Content Description
6 volumes of Cleveland Indians financial records. Five of the six volumes in this group (for 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, and 1952) are Indians payroll ledgers, with figures entered for each semi-monthly pay period. The hundreds of named employees include players, office workers, scouts, ground crew, ushers, ticket takers, and police. Each volume contains about 200 pages of content, plus inserts; pages measure around 35 x 42 cm. Four of the five volumes are disbound. The sixth volume...
Dates:
1940-1952
Cleveland Murphy papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10025
Scope and Contents
This collection chiefly consists of correspondence Cleveland Murphy received while serving in the military during the 1950s and 1960s. These include letters received from family, including his mother in Indianapolis, with news of home. He also received letters from his first wife between 1952 and 1953, discussing various personal and family matters, including her father's murder trial. The bulk of correspondence is from women Murphy dated in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In addition to...
Dates:
1952 - 1966
Cleveland Newspapers Clippings World Series Scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10038
Content Description
Two homemade scrapbooks compiled by an unknown person documenting baseball World Series game in the 1930s and 1940s primarily with clippings from Cleveland-area newspapers. Material includes game reports, columns, box scores, and reprinted images.
Dates:
1931-1942
Collection of Early Modern European Documents
Collection
Identifier: MSE/EM 3600
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the early modern European documents (dating from the 16th to 18th centuries) owned by the Hesburgh Library which are not part of a discrete archival collection. That is to say, this is an artificial collection of early modern European documents, grouped not by provenance, but by origin (early modern European) and genre (diplomatics). As such, it is composed of a wide variety of diplomatic genres, including: papal bulls, lease and releases, leases, surrenders,...
Dates:
1500 - 1800
Collection of Early Soviet Candy Wrappers
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0051
Scope and Contents
Collection of 117 candy wrappers from different Soviet republics, dating to the NEP (New Economic Policy) period in the 1920s and early 1930s and produced by then-nationalized confectionery factories in Moscow (Russia), Leningrad (Russia), Staryi Oskol (Russia), Voronezh (Russia), Kiev (Ukraine) , Kharkiv (Ukraine), Kherson (Ukraine), Odesa (Ukraine), Baku (Azerbaijan), Tbilisi (Georgia) and other cities. The collection features a wide range of subjects. Some wrappers feature Soviet...
Dates:
1920s-1930s
Collection of Early Soviet Commemorative Stamps and Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0053
Content Description
Collection contains early Soviet postal stamps and cinderella stamps (non-postal stamps) printed on various colored paper and ephemera materials.
Dates:
1916-1930s
Collection of Medieval Documents
Collection
Identifier: Ch.med
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the medieval documents (created prior to 1500 CE) owned by the Hesburgh Library which are not part of a discrete archival collection. That is to say, this is an artificial collection of medieval documents, grouped not by provenance, but by origin (medieval) and genre (diplomatics). As it currently stands, the entirety of the collection is of a European origin, namely of a southern French and northern Italian provenance, from the 14th and 15th centuries. ...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1380 - 1492
Collection of Ribbon Badges from Fraternal Organizations
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10052
Scope and Contents
Collection of Ribbon Badges from Fraternal Organizations, 1875-1950, comprises 19 ribbons and badges from various organizations and chapters across the Northeastern United States. Included in this collection are badges from the Russian Orthodox Brotherhood, the Order of Scottish Clans (O.S.C.), Italian American Quarrymen Association, and the Franco-American Union of Connecticut. In addition to the chapter badges, some are housed in their manufacturer box or in tension envelopes.
Dates:
1875-1950
Collection of Soviet poetry about the first five-year plan
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0048
Content Description
Collection of propaganda typewritten poems to promote achievements of the first five-year plan.
Dates:
1931 - 1932
Collection of World War I Cossack soldiers postcards
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: MSE/REE 0052
Scope and Contents
The Collection of World War I Cossack soldiers postcards, 1914, comprises a complete set of 12 postcards from artist K. Govoiarov depicting the adventures of a Cossack. Postcards display mobilization, military progress through Poland and Austria, arrival in Berlin, demobilization, and return to Russia of a Cossack soldier. Noted in verso, postcards were published as a fundraiser for orphans of the lower-rank soldiers of the Army and Navy.
Dates:
1914
College Baseball Team Programs and Scorecards Collection
Collection
Identifier: BAS 640
Scope and Contents
This collection contains programs and scorecards printed by College Baseball teams. Teams published programs and scorecards for 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 other subjects. Some programs also...
Dates:
1881-1950
College Fall Sports Media Guides Collection
Collection
Identifier: GEN 540
Scope and Contents
This collection contains fall sports media guides published by four-year colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The guides typically emphasize football—but unlike media guides specifically devoted to football—fall sports media guides also include information about other traditional fall sports, most notably men’s soccer and men’s cross country and sometimes men’s golf and men’s tennis. By the 1970s and 1980s some media guides also cover women’s sports, particularly field...
Dates:
1949-1987
College Football All American Team Announcements Collection
Collection
Identifier: FBC 902
Scope and Contents
This collection contains general interest popular magazines with articles announcing college football All American teams. The contents of each magazine is complete, and the collection contains most of the All American teams selected by Walter Camp and, subsequently, Grantland Rice for Collier’s Magazine. For some years, the collection includes “All Western Teams", and the collection also includes All American teams selected for other magazines, including ...
Dates:
1896-1962