Hesburgh Libraries

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Chiefly correspondence, but also clippings, notes, sermons, circulars, and photographs. Correspondents include James McMaster and Bishops Francis Chatard, Celestine de la Hailandière, Maurice de Saint-Palais, Napoléon Joseph Perché, and James Wood.

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Alphabetical files, professional files, personal files, and Notre Dame files, including drafts of poems, correspondence, teaching material, memorabilia, certificates, diplomas and clippings documenting his career as a poet and as a professor.

Scope and Contents This collection includes more than 300 exhibit cards featuring images of boxers. Cards are the size of postcards. The fronts of most cards contain an image of a boxer with his name and sometimes other information like hometown, nicknames, etc. The backs of cards from the 1920s often contain short bios and/or selected match results, and many have a postcard back for mailing. Some of the cards from the 1920s are tinted in different colors. Many cards, especially those printed after 1928,...

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The ESPN Promotional Posters Collection contains six promotional posters printed in about 1982 for the television network ESPN. Each full-color poster depicts a different sport televised by ESPN. The bottom of each poster features the tagline “The Total Sports Network” and the logo for ESPN.

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A scrapbook kept by the donor's mother while in Massachusetts before and after her marriage to Naval Officer and Doctor Peter Larkin, bulk 1948-1949. Includes letters and cards, photographs, magazine articles, and other printed ephemera. Several of the letters were from James McDonald and relate to Notre Dame; and three football-themed window decals printed by the Angelus Pacific Company showing a Fighting Irishman dominating an Army Mule, a Navy Goat, and a USC Trojan Helmet.

Scope and Contents This collection primarily consists of correspondence sent from Ethel Mannin to a number of her fans. Includes seventeen letters from Ethel Mannin to various correspondents including George Arthur Fleet (1899-1988), Victor Croxford, a “Mr. Threadgold,” and a “Cecil.” Additionally includes thirteen carbon copies of letters sent from George Arthur Fleet to Ethel Mannin, a postcard from Fleet to Mannin, a collage including the letter to Victor Croxford, a card from Mannin to “Cecil” and a...

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Correspondence and other personal papers of the Kormendis; clippings, newsletters, programs, brochures, having to do with art by Kormendi and his wife. Also photographic prints and some negatives, mostly of artwork by Kormendi and his wife, and one reel-to-reel audio tape of the family.

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Tape recordings of radio interviews conducted by Rev. Eugene C. Best with bishops and others involved in the Second Vatican Council.

Scope and Content This collection consists of materials related to the life and career of Eugene Kennedy, including correspondence, subject files, notes, speeches, writings in various stages of development, published books and articles, photographs, audio and video recordings, and items of ephemera or realia. Topics of note include counseling, psychology, the Association of Chicago Priests, Catholicism and the Catholic priesthood in the second half of the 20th century, American bishops, and Chicago politics...

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Papers and research material consisting of books, academic notes, art, pictures and portraits, having to do with Catholicism and world religions, especially Hindus and India.

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A lab notebook (1950-1953); a reprint of his "On the Hydrodynamical Theory of the Viscosity of Suspensions" from the Fith Intenational Congress of Applied Mechanics, 1938; and measuring tools used in conducting polymer physics experiments at Notre Dame, including calipers, tachometers, dial test indicators, a torque wrench, and miscellaneous accessories (1940s-1950s).

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Chiefly course material for the music classes he taught, especially Introduction to Music and Introduction to the Classic Symphony: notes and notebooks, music manuscripts, essays, and letters from his career as a professor of music at Notre Dame. Also a notebook from a Literature Course taught by Frank O'Malley at Notre Dame, 1955-1956, and a spirit-duplicator booklet by Daniel H. Pedtke, "Keyboard Theory: Modulation - Transposition - Harmonization".

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Transcripts of the "Jus" letters, 1868-1869; of correspondence between O'Callaghan and Richard Gilmour, Bishop of Cleveland, 1884; and of the letter in which O'Callaghan acknowledges that he wrote the "Jus" letters, 1896; copies of his citizenship papers, record of death, will, obituaries, and a photograph of his portrait; and parish history material from St. Colman's Parish, where he served as pastor.

Scope and Content Chiefly professional academic papers from Marshalek's years as a Notre Dame Physics professor. This collection spans the years 1944-2004, although the majority of the material is dated only from the 1960s to the 1990s. It documents Marshalek's career as physicist at Notre Dame, focusing primarily on his research career in nuclear physics. The bulk of the Marshalek Papers came from files in his home. This series dates from ca. 1960 to 2000, mostly from 1970 to 1985; original order...

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Papers representing Prof. Ulrich's work in editing the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Portraits of Jeb Stuart, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and his consort Carlota, and General Don Manuel de Mier y Teran.

Abstract The collection consists of documents, letters, photographs, and some manuscripts relating to Evgeniia Ginzburg, the author of Krutoi Marshrut, an autobiographical account of the author's experience in the Soviet labor camps. Krutoi Marshrut has been translated into English in two volumes: Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind. The collection also includes materials relating to the life...

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A letter from Theodore Roosevelt to F. Henry Wurzer, Secretary of the American Republican College League, 2 December 1898; Wurzer's grades at Notre Dame for September and October of 1897; the constitution of the Alumni Association, University of Notre Dame; letters received by F. Henry Wurzer having to do with the Alumni Association, Notre Dame fund raising, and football tickets; and clippings dating from 1923 and 1932.

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Correspondence, 1933-1971; union files, 1933-1972; subject files, 1937-1969; and personal files, 1940-1974; documenting McCartney's involvement in the AFL-CIO, including his work with George Meany.

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Reports and material distributed at meetings concerning civil rights, age discrimination, equal opportunity, sterilization, and related issues.

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A manuscript songbook containing 44 songs in fa-so-la notation. Possibly of Pennsylvania origin, it appears to date from the mid to late 1790s. Most of the lyrics are from the poetry of Isaac Watts.

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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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One game designed by Captain William J. Chapman and manufactured by Parker Brothers, Inc. Players spin and move pieces across a board marked to represent the challenges of flying a plane into an airport using only radio signals.