Hesburgh Libraries

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Correspondence with James Cardinal Gibbons, bishops John Ireland, John J. Keane, Denis O'Connell, and John Lancaster Spalding, and others, much of it concerning Americanism; also notes, clippings, pamphlets, drafts, and photographs.

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Correspondence concerning the foundation of the Fathers of Mercy in the United States. Includes 34 transcribed and xeroxed letters written between Bach and Fathers Jean Baptiste Rauzan, SPM, and Jacques Le Vassuer, SPM, both of whom were at the Fathers of Mercy House in Paris. Also includes a xerox of a 1932 letter to Thomas McAvoy, CSC, concerning Bach.

In French.

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A copy of everything published by Fides; also a few related documents and photographs.

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Photocopies of records of the First Methodist Church, South Bend, Indiana, 1835-1861; including photocopies of the Constitution and Sunday School minutes, 1835-1861; roll of members and minutes of business meetings, 1836- 1849; and a copy of Fourteen Decades: A Brief History of the First United Methodist Church, South Bend, Indiana, 1971.

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Correspondence and clippings and photos regarding John M. Ryan, CSC; rosaries, medals, scapulars; notebook of clipped and typed prayers kept originally by Ryan; prayerbook and miscellaneous prayercards, clippings, notes.

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Film and Audio Segments of the Documentary "Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish" by Florentine Films (1992).

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Chiefly congratulatory letters to Satolli when he became a cardinal in 1895; several letters concerning his work as papal ablegate; photographs, clippings, and a program of a play presented at the Columbian Exposition at which Satolli was present, 1893.

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Letters from Archbishops Robert E. Lucey of San Antonio and Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago to McMahon, a liberal Catholic internationalist and Notre Dame faculty member, concerning peace and internationalist issues.

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Correspondence, memoranda, agenda, minutes, drafts, reports, interviews, files on the history of the Catholic Church in Ohio, and other manuscript, printed, and audio-visual material documenting Fr. Brown's work as editor, writer and priest; with material concerning the Association of Pittsburgh Priests, the Steubenville Priests' Senate, the National Federation of Priests Councils, Catholic social issues, and ecumenism.

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Correspondence, photographs, published and unpublished writings by O'Malley, and material relating to his teaching activities, including student papers, class record books, and lectures. Correspondents include Willa Cather, Desmond Fitzgerald, Jacques Maritain, Edward Goerner, Edwin O'Connor, and Hannah Arendt.

Scope and Content Letters and papers from Blanchet's trips to France (1846) and South America (1856-1857); correspondence with Major Edward Mallet (1881-1882), with a few letters exchanged between Mallet and Bishop Augustin Magloire Alexander Blanchet (1883); letters, pamphlets and clippings involving Archbishops F.N. Blanchet, Charles J. Seghers, William H. Gross, and Alexander Christie; and a few papers and clippings involving the Diocese of Vancouver Island, suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Oregon City....

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Sermons and speeches by Cavanaugh and a draft of a letter by Cavanaugh to Estes Kefauver on juvenile delinquency.

Scope and Content A few original manuscripts, but chiefly photocopies, transcriptions, and translations of correspondence and documents concerning the history of the Catholic Church in Kentucky; correspondents include missionary priest Stephen T. Badin and bishops John Baptist David, Benedict Joseph Flaget, Martin John Spalding, Peter Joseph Lavialle, and William George McCloskey. Portraits of Catholic clergy and religious along with photographs and photomechanical prints of Catholic churches,...

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Periodicals having to do with films and the film industry, with a few comic books and comic strips, and one scrapbook, all on microfilm.

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Correspondence, microfilm center records, financial papers, family papers, checklists, finding aids, and printed material documenting Francis P. Clark's collecting and microfilming activities, with information concerning some of the collections that came to the University of Notre Dame Archives through his agency.

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Microfilm of various sporting newspapers made by Francis P. Clark: Sporting Life, Sporting News, Cleveland Plain Dealer Sports Pages, Baseball Players Chronicle, American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes, Michigan Sportsman, New England Base Ballist, National Chronicle, New York Clipper, Official Baseball Record, and Weekly Baseball Guide; also Baseball Scrapbooks.

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Memoirs of Lieutenant General Francis P. Mulcahy, United States Marine Corps (retired): a photocopy of the typewritten transcript of oral history interviews conducted by Benis M. Frank for the Marine Corps Oral History Program, 11-15 February 1967, and approved by Mulcahy 3 December 1969; with a photograph of Mulcahy and correspondence concerning the donation of the transcript to the University of Notre Dame in 1970.

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Letters from family, friends, and American bishops, most of them dating from the time when Chatard lived in Rome; concerning the North American College and its students and European travels of American friends; with requests from American bishops for assistance in dealing with Vatican officials, inquiries about political conditions in Rome, and requests for accomodations at the College for the First Vatican Council.

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Correspondence, 1902-1962; magazine articles by Kervick; floor plans for Sorin Hall, Corby Hall, Walsh Hall, and Cushing Hall of Engineering on the Notre Dame campus; electrical specifications for the mission house of the Congregation of Holy Cross; proof sheets of Kervick's Architects in America of Catholic Tradition; his autograph collection (e.g., Sinclair Lewis, Lucy Stone, John Forsyth); a list of Notre Dame WWII dead as of May, 17, 1946; and photographs.

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Pigskin Review files 1937-1957; manuscripts of books, screenplays, short stories, and magazine serials; correspondence with Notre Dame, literary agents, sports figures, etc.; press guides and game programs; magazines from the 1920s through 1950s, most containing Wallace by-lines; galley proofs of books relating to Notre Dame; clippings; books; and photographs.

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Notebooks; scrapbook and clippings about Wenninger; pamphlets, articles, lectures, and sermons (many by Wenninger); a copy of his M.A. thesis "A Biological Study of Miranda Aurantia," 1917; grade books, 1916-1940; a card catalog, prepared by Wenninger, of books on biology and evolution; articles on science in the Notre Dame Scholastic, 1875-1887; maps of South Bend and Mishawaka, Indiana; and photographs.

Scope and Content Correspondence to, from, and mentioning Pierz, including four letters to Bishop Frederick Résé of Detroit (in German 1837-1839); 48 letters to Bishop Peter Lefevre of Detroit (in French and English) which include mission reports from Arbre Croche, Michigan, (1842-1852); summaries of letters from Bishop Lefevre to Pierz (1835-1853); and letters mentioning Pierz from records of the Diocese of Detroit (1840) and the Archdiocese of Cincinnati (1854) and from the papers of Richard Henry Clarke...

Scope and Content Seventeen letters in German and one in English (1863-1888 and several undated) exchanged between John Ackermann, Franz [Ackermann?], Amanda Ackermann, Amanda Pfiffner, and Catherine Schlupp; a letter to Francis Xavier Ackerman from J. E. Walsh, 1 September 1888; letters from Ackerman to Charlotte Mayne and Paul Dienhart, 1935-1943; Dienhart and Mayne correspondence with Notre Dame, 1943 and 1947-1948; letters received by Francis X. Ackerman 1943-1946, but primarily in 1945, from former...

Scope and Content Record books of the Sisters and of their institutions, 1874-2009, including records of members, financial records, and some student records; and ephemeral publications of schools run by the sisters: student periodicals and circulars for alumnae; vocation and formation files, 1932-2000; films, some concerning their New Guinea missionaries; audio recordings including oral histories, the Gospel of Mark in the Crow language with a written text, and songs of celebration; also a film strip program...

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Mimeographed letters chiefly from provincial superiors Dominic Limacher, Vincent Kroger and Sylvan R. Becker to members of the province of Saint John the Baptist of the Order of Friars Minor (OFM), 1951-1962.

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Photographs of Notre Dame campus scenes, the Ice House fire, Walsh Hall, the Stations of the Cross, dormitory life, baseball player Ray Scanlan, and the football train to Purdue.

Scope and Content Personal correspondence, photographs, and newspapers comprise the bulk of the collection; with the addition of company records, army records and printed materials. The collection spans from 1918-2009. The bulk of the collection was generated from 1939 to 1945 during Flynn's years as a college student and member of the armed forces. Materials from World War II form a large portion of the collection. Handwritten correspondence with family members, solider's guide books, newspapers, and ration...

Scope and Content Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to personal and business affairs and to politics, primarily in the 1930s and 1940s; minutes, proceedings, reports and press releases of the Executive Council, the National Emergency Council and the Post Office; financial reports of the Democratic National Committee 1924-1938, 1943-1944; reports on the motion picture industry, and correspondence and reports concerning the Notre Dame Board of Lay Trustees and the Notre Dame Foundation; a tape...

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Speeches and articles from The Carpenter (a trade union magazine); concerning labor-management issues from a strongly pro-labor position, with emphasis on the importance of persistence in the labor wars and of union membership.

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Papers concerning Geno Baroni collected by Frank J. Cavaioli; and six cassette audio tapes containing Cavaioli's interviews with Baroni.