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Theophilus Parsons Journal

Collection

Identifier: MSN/EA 8011

Overview The two-volume manuscript journal of the Boston littérateur and lawyer Theophilus Parsons (1797-1882), kept during his early professional years, 1819-1823.

Dates: 1819-1823

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Theresa Milburn Diary

Collection

Identifier: MSN/CW 8021

Overview A manuscript diary kept during the Civil War by Theresa Milburn, a young woman living on a plantation in Avoyelles Parish in central Louisiana.

Dates: 1863-1878; Majority of material found in 1863-1865

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Overview A short-entry Civil War manuscript diary of Confederate States soldier Thomas Benton Alexander, written as a member of the 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Regiment, Company B (3rd). Much of the content dates from the final year of the war, when Alexander was captured at Mobile Bay and imprisoned at Elmira, New York.

Dates: 1861-1865

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Thomas Davis Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSE/IR 1001

Overview Manuscript drafts of verse and songs.

Dates: circa 1838-1845

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Thomas F. Mason Letters on the Cotton Trade

Collection

Identifier: MSN/CW 5111

Overview Four manuscript letters addressed to New York investor Thomas F. Mason, discussing the cotton trade conducted by northern merchants with Confederate held areas along the Mississippi River during the American Civil War.

Dates: 1863-1864

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Thomas Family Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MSN/CW 5014

Overview A family correspondence of 51 items whose principal authors are George Thomas and his wife, Minerva Everton Thomas, of Spencer County, Indiana. Most of the letters date from 1862-1863, during George Thomas's Civil War service as quartermaster of the 53rd Indiana Infantry.

Dates: 1862-1865; Majority of material found in 1862-1863

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Thomas J. Baird Orderly Book

Collection

Identifier: MSN/EA 1004-01-B

Overview A manuscript orderly book of 1st Lt. Thomas J. Baird of the United States Army, kept during 1818-1822 while commanding detachments of artillery at stations in New York, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Virginia.

Dates: 1818-1822

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Thomas J. Barb Diary

Collection

Identifier: MSN/CW 8002

Overview A Civil War manuscript diary of Confederate States trooper Thomas J. Barb, written as a member of the 1st (Dobbin's) Arkansas Cavalry Regiment. Entries extend from 18 June to 11 September 1863 and include accounts of several key engagements in Arkansas, including the attack on Helena and the defense of Little Rock.

Dates: 1863

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Thomas Kemp Cartmell Diary

Item

Identifier: MSN/CW 8018

Overview A personal diary maintained by Confederate veteran Thomas Kemp Cartmell, mostly during the late war years and Reconstruction, 1864-1866. The entries were written at the Cartmell family estate, "Retirement," in Frederick County, Virginia.

Dates: 1864-1872; Majority of material found in 1864-1866

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Thomas W. Cridler Louisiana Purchase Exposition Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSN/MN 0510

Overview A collection including more than 2,500 pieces of correspondence to and from Thomas W. Cridler, mostly relating to his role as European Commissioner for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (the St. Louis World's Fair) held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904. Some of Cridler's correspondence is with fair administrators and U.S. diplomatic figures; some is with representatives of European nations targeted for inclusion. Also in the collection are smaller accumulations of other types of fair-related...

Dates: 1898-1911; Majority of material found in 1901-1904

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Tom O'Flaherty Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSE/IR 1082

Overview A collection of papers of Tom O'Flaherty including manuscript and typescript fiction and autobiography, and letters, all apparently written from 1933 to 1935.

Dates: 1932 - 1935

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Tomás de Bhaldraithe Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSE/IR 1401

Overview Correspondence, notes and theses from the collection of Tomás de Bhaldraithe, Irish scholar and lexicographer.

Dates: 1916 - 1990

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Tone’s Tone’s Tone’s football board game

Item

Identifier: EPH 5057

Scope and Contents One board game for any even number of players designed to simulate football game play. The board is printed in green yellow, red, and black, and marked to resemble a football field. Players spin a dial marked with numbers from 1-12. Tables on the game board indicate gains or losses correlating with each spin result. A two-sided football game piece (lost from this set) is used to track movement up and down the field. The game was played in four quarters and with points (for touchdowns, place...

Dates: 1925

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Trinity Closet Press Collection

Collection

Identifier: EPH 5039

Scope and Contents This collection consists of publications and printings created by The Closet Press at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The Trinity Closet Press was a hand press run by members of the Library's Department of Early Printed Books. It was founded in 1973 by Mary M. Pollard as a teaching tool to give students and staff first-hand experience of book production methods in the hand-press period. The Press was housed in the basement of the Printing House at Trinity College and ceased operations in...

Dates: 1973-1987, 1991-1995

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Truman Wheeler Day Books

Collection

Identifier: MSN/COL 9300

Overview Three volumes of business records, mostly in day book form, of the Great Barrington, Massachusetts general merchant Truman Wheeler. The records range in date from 1764 to 1813, with an emphasis on the years prior to the Revolution.

Dates: 1764-1813

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Twentieth Century Fun Box and sleight of hand props

Collection

Identifier: EPH 5058

Scope and Contents One incomplete set of games originally issued as the ‘Twentieth Century Fun Box,’ along with unrelated game pieces and magic trick props. Games present and issued with the original ‘Fun Box’ set are: ‘Putting on the Lid’ (1 game board, 17 discs), ‘Amrest’ (1 game board), and ‘Naval Battle’ (1 game board). The ‘Fun Box’ was originally manufactured by Geo. B. Doan & Co., Chicago, and copyrighted in 1905. The ‘Twentieth Century Fun Box’ is incomplete per description on box lid....

Dates: 1905

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Upton Sinclair Letters to Melville Kress

Collection

Identifier: MSN/MN 3014

Overview Fifty-five letters written by American novelist, playwright, and essayist Upton Sinclair to Melville L. Kress, dated between 1933 and 1958.

Dates: 1933-1958; Majority of material found in 1938-1948

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Uruguayan Political Ephemera Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSH/LAT 0078

Scope and Contents This collection consists of political ephemera associated with various Uruguayan political parties. Materials include documents from the Movimiento Revolucionario Nacionalista, as well as from Wilson Ferreira and Uruguayan political parties, including the Partido Nacional (Blanco) and the Partido Colorado. Materials include broadsides, posters, newspaper/magazine articles, pamphlets, manifestos, manuals, speeches, presidential decrees and electoral propaganda.

Dates: 1829-2010

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

U.S.S. Bonita Mexican War Journal

Collection

Identifier: MSN/EA 8006

Overview A personal journal kept by the purser of the schooner-gunboat U.S.S. Bonita during the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847.

Dates: 1846-1847

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Vagrich and Irene Bakhchanyan Collections

Collection

Identifier: MSE/REE 0006

Overview The materials include collections assembled by Vagrich Bakhchanyan (1938-2009), a prominent Soviet and, after emigration, American artist, writer, and poet, and his wife Irene: The Stalin Test (drawings of Joseph Stalin by leading Russian and émigré artists, writers, and cultural figures), the Eduard Limonov Papers, the Mail Art Collection, and the Vagrich and Irene Bakhchanyan papers, which consist of correspondence, materials from Bakhchanyan's library, photographs, and visual ephemera.

Dates: 1960-2009

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Vatican II Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSE/MD 3828

Overview Includes copies of materials pertaining to the development of the sixteen official texts promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, three schemas discussed but not officially accepted by the Council, assorted materials pertaining to the nineteen conciliar documents discussed, items relevant to the period of the Council that include booklets, directories, notices, schedules, summaries, and other items. Post-conciliar liturgical documents are also included.

Dates: 1948-1986, bulk 1962-1965

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Viscount de la Belinaye Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSN/COL 0503

Overview 68 manuscript business letters and documents relating mainly to the Saint-Domingue property holdings of Maurice-René, Viscount de la Belinaye as they were managed by a mercantile house under Stanislas Foäche in Cap-Français (modern-day Cap-Haïtien, Haiti) between 1775 and 1790.

Dates: 1764-1792

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Vladimir Lifshits, Asya Genkina, and Lev Loseff Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSE/REE 0016

Overview The papers consist of letters, manuscripts, and phototgraphs, as well as book and journal publications, related to Lifshits, Genkina, and Loseff. The collection also includes material of Irina Kichanova-Lifshits, Boris Semenov, and Mikahil Eremin.

Dates: 1890s-2009; Majority of material found within ( 1940-1990)

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Walter South Illustrated Cycling Journals

Collection

Identifier: MSSP 7000

Overview Three oversized and densely illustrated journals compiled by a Philadelphia bookkeeper named Walter South, recording twenty bicycle trips or vacations around the American Northeast undertaken over a period of ten years, 1894 to 1904.

Dates: 1894-1904

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Watson Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSN/EA 10011

Scope and Contents This collection contains manuscript material created by or related to the Watson Family of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Included are various autograph manuscripts, indenture releases and a mortgage, poetry, legal manuscripts, a passport, two diaries belonging to John and Martha Watson, and a manuscript containing a personal memoir and a Native American speech.

Dates: circa 1700, 1792-1878

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Willa Cather Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSN/MN 3001

Overview Two unrelated letters written by the major American author Willa Cather (1873-1947). The first is to a "Mr. Towne" and is dated 17 November [1922]. The second is written to Brother Emil Mohr, CSC, and is dated 7 May 1937.

Dates: 1922, 1937

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

William Allingham Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSE/IR 1014

Overview Letters from William Allingham of Ballyshannon to his brother John Allingham of Dublin.

Dates: 1829-1865

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

William Beatty, Jr. Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSN/COL 8500

Overview Five manuscript personal letters written in 1777-78 by William Beatty, Jr., an officer in the Maryland Line of Continental Troops.

Dates: 1777-1778

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

William Cline Diary

Collection

Identifier: MSN/CW 8007

Overview A volume including manuscript diary entries dated from August 1863 to October 1864 written by Civil War soldier William Cline, as a member of Co. B, 73rd Ohio Infantry. The book also includes a 53-page memoir chronicling Cline's service from 1861-1863.

Dates: 1863-1864

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

William Combs Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSN/CW 5011

Overview 9 Civil War letters written by Union private William Combs, during his service in Co. C, 14th New Hampshire Infantry. Also present is a ferrotype portrait of Combs in uniform.

Dates: 1862-1865

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

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Theophilus Parsons Journal

Theresa Milburn Diary

Thomas Benton Alexander Diary

Thomas Davis Collection

Thomas F. Mason Letters on the Cotton Trade

Thomas Family Correspondence

Thomas J. Baird Orderly Book

Thomas J. Barb Diary

Thomas Kemp Cartmell Diary

Thomas W. Cridler Louisiana Purchase Exposition Papers

Tom O'Flaherty Collection

Tomás de Bhaldraithe Collection

Tone’s Tone’s Tone’s football board game

Trinity Closet Press Collection

Truman Wheeler Day Books

Twentieth Century Fun Box and sleight of hand props

Upton Sinclair Letters to Melville Kress

Uruguayan Political Ephemera Collection

U.S.S. Bonita Mexican War Journal

Vagrich and Irene Bakhchanyan Collections

Vatican II Collection

Viscount de la Belinaye Papers

Vladimir Lifshits, Asya Genkina, and Lev Loseff Papers

Walter South Illustrated Cycling Journals

Watson Family Papers

Willa Cather Letters

William Allingham Letters

William Beatty, Jr. Letters

William Cline Diary

William Combs Letters

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