Hesburgh Libraries

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This collection consists of oral history interviews conducted by Jean Meyer and others about the Cristero Rebellion in Mexico. Included are interviews with former military and government personnel who witnessed or participated in the Rebellion, as well as interviews with citizens of Mexico, and some samples of popular music in Spanish and Nahuatl. Materials include open reel audio tapes, audiocassettes, compact discs, and digital versatile discs.

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Unpublished manuscript of his "History of the 58th Regt. Illinois Infantry Volunteers From Sept. 1861 to April 1866" and a typewritten transcript of it; correspondence with members of the 58th Regiment, 1894-1905; clippings and pamphlets concerning the Civil War; manuscript essays by Spillard; and information on Brigadier General Robert W. Healy, Colonel William Lynch, and Daniel Joseph Spillard, CSC.

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Scripts, reports, schedules, lists, and Notre Dame Scholastic articles concerning radio and television broadcasting at Notre Dame, 1935-1956, on WSBT, WND (later WSND), and WNDU-TV; and Fallon's Curriculum Vitae, 1992.

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Newspaper clipping, 1899, concerning experiments in wireless telegraphy conducted by Jerome J. Green.

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Chronological files and subject files; including memoirs, manuscript material, printed material, mimeographed material, photocopies, photographs and audio tapes; representing his family background, education, pastoral career, and participation in many Catholic organizations including the Christian Family Movement, International Conferederation of Christian Family Movements, National Marriage Encounter, Young Christian Workers, and the National Federation of Priests' Councils.

Scope and Content Printed material, ephemera, clippings, correspondence, photos, an Irish Village wooden building, etc. relating to the three Hammes Bookstores at Notre Dame, 1955-2009; a Notre Dame Athletic and Convocation Center Commemorative Medal distributed by Romy Hammes; captioned photographs (printed on plain paper) of three Hammes-related exhibits at the December 1968 dedication of the ACC; an email message, some newspaper clippings, and photocopies from the Notre Dame Archives' collections regarding...

Scope and Content Letters sent by the American hierarchy and various missionaries to correspondents in Europe (primarily England) concerning the activities, suppression, and restoration of the Jesuits; including letters from Jesuit Archbishops John Carroll (1735-1815) and Leonard Neale (1746-1817); with a printed copy of a Maryland bill entitled "An Act for Securing Certain Estates and Property for the Support and Uses of the Ministers of the Roman Catholic Religion" (no date) and a pamphlet entitled "A Short...

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A collection of letters and other papers belonging to Jesús González Ortega, an important political and military figure in mid-19th century Mexico. The papers mainly relate to González Ortega's stay in the United States in 1865-1867, the efforts of Benito Juárez's government in Mexico to remove him from political office while he was away, and his detainment by the U.S. government in November 1866.

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A collection of materials on the Pete Rose gambling investigation of 1989, assembled by journalist Jim Newton of the Fort Hamilton (OH) Press. The collection consists primarily of photocopied documents and news clips. Included is a copy of the Dowd Report (Major League Baseball's investigation into Rose's activities) with its many attendant volumes of exhibits.

Scope and Contents This collection primarily consists of the personal papers, letters, manuscripts, notes, and ephemera of John Joseph “J.J.” “Sceilg” O’Kelly in the years 1916-1948. Also included are Seán Óg O’Kelly’s notes and letters on various mid-century Irish labor disputes. Materials include letters, notes, speeches, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, booklets, short stories, ballads, poems, telegrams, letters of condolences, sympathy cards, mass cards, administrative minutes, administrative...

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Correspondence, 1867-1889, and a manuscript of Toohey's translation of Elementary Course in Philosophy by E. Barbe, 1890.

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Unfinished manuscript of Origins of Western Christian Worship: A Study of the Earliest Christian Liturgy and related material including notes, drafts, correspondence, lectures, xerox copies, offprints, mimeographed material, and a bibliography.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1950s-1977; her writings, including leaflets for her Damascene pictures (1957), entries for the New Catholic Encyclopedia (1963), articles concerning the role of women in the church (1970s), and an unpublished book-length manuscript, My Peregrinations: An Autobiography (1977); reviews of her book The Lady Was a Bishop (1973); and copies of such personal records as birth and baptismal certificates. Also some of her films: Shakespeare Songs, Fight for the Right...

Scope and Content Personal files, 1950s-2000s; sports files, bulk 1970s- 1990s; Ara Parseghian column ghostwriting files, 1960s and 1980s; Notre Dame football files, bulk 1950s-1970s; newspaper clippings of Doyle articles, March-April 1962, April 1967, and August-November 1971; football game play-by-play notes, 1957-1980; reporter's notebooks, ca. 2000s; loose manuscripts, including several book-length manuscripts by other authors; many unfiled papers and some unlabeled folders and envelopes; and photographs...

Scope and Contents The Joe Garagiola Jr. Papers consist of materials related to a 1971 WSND student radio documentary marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Knute Rockne. WSND Sports Director Art Martin and Assistant WSND Sports Director Joe Garagiola Jr. produced the Rockne documentary that aired in March of 1971. The collection contains original correspondence between Martin/Garagiola and players and other people who had known Rockne before his death in 1931. The collection also contains material...

Scope and Content Manuscripts of books, plays, and articles; correspondence, notes, reprints, clippings, news releases, syndicated columns, artifacts, photographs, tape recordings, and subject files; and Catholic pamphlets and books by O'Brien and others; concerning priestly celibacy, birth control, the Masons, converts, anti- Catholicism, evolution, education, and the Crusade for Souls. Most of Father O'Brien's papers and printed material (over 60 linear feet) came to the archives as part of the...

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Scrapbook concerning American Catholicism containing many articles from Boston-area newspapers.

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Travel diary (1869-1870); letters received as editor of the Notre Dame Scholastic (1878-1894); letters received from his relatives (1864-1892); letters of obedience for his appointments at Notre Dame and Watertown; manuscripts of essays and poems, some by O'Connell, collected for the Scholastic; and miscellaneous clippings.

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Notes and printed material of John A. Poirier, Notre Dame Professor of physics since 1961; including notes and reports dealing with quantum mechanics, nuclear theory, and electronic circuits, photocopied journal articles, drafts of writings, and a dissertation on threshold enhancement by James J. Phelan.

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Correspondence, 1925-1941; gradebooks, 1925-1942, 1944; employee contracts, 1922-1940; and a photograph.

Scope and Content Correspondence, memorabilia, drafts, clippings, mimeographed notes and handouts; notebooks of John Oesterle; a Polish translation of one of his books, Etyka ; files from courses he taught; correspondence between the Oesterles and Charles de Koninck; personal files of Jean Oesterle representing among other things her work as managing editor of The New Scholasticism ; with drafts of her translation of St. Thomas Aquinas' ...

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Documentation of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the South Bend area, 1972-1980s; consisting of correspondence, mimeographed and ditto material, and printed ephemera on the People of Praise and Charismatics; also some material on cults, and an anthropological study of True House by Fr. Ken McGuire, CSP: "People, Prayer and Promise" (Ph.D Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1976).

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A group of seven manuscript volumes, mostly personal journals, kept by Methodist Episcopal clergyman John T. McMahon and his wife Sarah Douglas McMahon. Much of the content dates from the couple's years working at the Church's North India Mission, 1871-1897.

Scope and Content Manuscripts of works by Zahm, including his South American trilogy and Women in Science; publications by Zahm; correspondence, bills, and receipts concerning purchases of Italian books and art, 1901-1906; personal correspondence, lectures, drafts of essays, pamphlets, postcards, a bibliography on women, articles on Zahm published after his death; tintypes and albumen and silver gelatin photographs, with images of South America, including pictures of Zahm and Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he...

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Collection consists of programs, playbills, proof copy, publication announcements, press releases, and other ephemera. The authors in the collection are primarily 20th-century British and American writers. The collection also includes many single-issue journals, quite frequently the place where a story or poem was first published.

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Correspondence, minutes, and clippings, 1958-1978, of the Notre Dame Library Council, collected by John Bennet Shaw, who was board chairman from 1963 to 1978. The purpose of the Library Council was "to create a group of book collectors and book lovers who will work for Notre Dame's library by contributing rare and expensive books."

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Letters received by Cappon, from his brother and others in Belgium, and letters regarding his parish, personal finances, and diocesan questions such as marriage dispensations from bishop; some correspondence unconnected to Cappon; and sermons, notes, certificates, and church documents. Correspondents include Rev. John De Neve, Bishop Peter Paul Lefevre of Detroit, and Bishop Caspar H. Borgess of Detroit.

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Letter book with entries dating from 13 May 1848 to 22 April 1850, including letters to Robert Walsh (U.S. Consul, Paris), John Jay, Commodore W.C. Bolton, Daniel J. Carroll, General Jackson Morton, William Carroll, and James Richard; and photographs. Most of the letters have to do with patents, settlement of estates, payment of bills, and the circumstances of the Brent family after the death of John Carroll Brent's father.

Scope and Content Correspondence and subject files; copies of published articles and columns; drafts of Cogley's memoirs (A Canterbury Tale); bound volumes of Today (1947-1950) and the Chicago Catholic Worker (1938-1941); clippings of his reports on the Second Vatican Council for Religious News Service (1964) and of his columns for the diocesan press (1967-1968); correspondence and clippings relating to his writing for the New York Times (1964-1975); an unpublished manuscript of a collection of his writing...

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An eighteenth-century manuscript copy of a diary kept by Capt. John Curtice of the Massachusetts militia in 1745-1745/6, during the siege and occupation of the French fortress of Louisbourg.