Hesburgh Libraries

Scope and Contents This collection chiefly consists of the correspondence of Mary Taussig Hall. Early letters (circa 1920s) to and from Mary Taussig Hall frequently concern her family, travels, and studies. Later (1930s-) topics of note include her family and social life, travels, and growing interest in social work and political causes. Most correspondence is with family and friends though professional correspondence is also present. Mary’s time at Hull House is well-described, as is a Depression-era job...

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Financial accounts and explanation and justification of actions taken by George Hunter of the Maryland Factory. Includes list of articles bought in London, among them vestments and church furnishings. Items on the account books include gratuities, voyage expenses, legal fees, interest rates, and debts.

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The collection includes more than 50 manuscript letters written during the Civil War by Pvt. John William Masterson, Co. A, 133rd New York Infantry, as well as later papers relating to Masterson's service and to his son William and daughter Ida.

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Transcripts, programs, sleeves, liner notes, or other material separated from audio or video recordings.

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Three notebooks representing trips to Ireland, Palestine, and Rome; also several pamphlets.

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Brief daily entries describing activities and travel, calls and callers, and subjects of discussion.

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Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, lectures, sermons, pamphlets; minutes of the Notre Dame Literary Club, 1897-1901; a diary dating from the summer of 1905; his doctoral dissertation, "Political Status of Catholics in Colonial Maryland" (1907); letters, diaries, and printed material relating to his experience as a chaplain in World War I; and photographs.

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Loose papers and files, 1950s-2000s; including letters received (still in their envelopes), bulk 1987-2004, teaching and research material, administrative and departmental papers, and legal / financial / tax / real estate records (most of which should be destroyed after his estate is settled). There is probably still some Cavanaugh Hall Rector's material in these boxes that should be transferred to UCVR as it is identified. Also audio-visual material, photographs, and printed material.

Scope and Content Correspondence with James A. Burns, CSC, Knute Rockne, and others, 1919-1938; minutes of the board of directors, financial reports and audits of the College of St. Thomas (St. Paul, Minnesota), 1929-1935; circular letters of the superior general, Congregation of Holy Cross, 1918-1937; decrees of general chapters of the Congregation of Holy Cross, 1855-1912; manuscripts of Schumacher's dissertation, "The Knowableness of God: Its Relation to the Theory of Knowledge in St. Thomas," (1904); and...

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Correspondence, 1930s-1970s; Fischer's writings; subject files and organizational files concerning Mundelein College, Chicago Press Club, Pan American Council, and Mayor's Commission on the Rehabilitation of Persons (Chicago); clippings; scrapbooks; and awards.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1881-1922, including a letter from Egan to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, 18 December 1911, and letters written by Bishop M.A. Corrigan and Eustace Cullinan; manuscripts of fiction and poetry; and a copy of Egan's The Leopard of Lancianus and Other Short Stories (1898). Also microfilm containing correspondence from the archives' calendared collections and material from various issues of the Notre Dame Scholastic by and about Maurice Francis...

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Personal correspondence, 1917-1920, and correspondence of the Liturgical Arts Society, 1955-1972; bound handwritten diaries of Lavanoux concerning liturgical arts, 1950-1974; by-laws and constitution of the Liturgical Arts Society; class notes taken by Lavanoux, 1915-1920; book-length autobiographical manuscript by Lavanoux, Never a Dull Moment ; and clippings about Lavanoux and liturgical arts.

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Twenty-eight annual journals of the daily calendar type, recording the professional activities of agent Max. H. Roder of the U. S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1931-1959.

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A collection of more than 500 personal letters directed to Frank and Ruth McCracken at Toston, Montana. The letters span the years between the wars; most were written by relations and acquaintances in Minnesota, Montana, and (especially) North Dakota. In addition to personal and social content, there is much allusion to the broader economic, geographic, and cultural forces that shaped life on the Northern plains in the 1920s and 30s.

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A group of 27 personal letters written by, to, or about James Monroe Meek, an East Tennessee lawyer and legislator jailed by the Confederates for his Unionist sympathies. Most of the correspondence dates from the Civil War.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of media guides for college basketball conferences. The media guides typically contain pictures, articles, statistics, schedules, and information about the conference teams and their players, coaches, and other personnel. The guides also usually contain administrative information about the conference, its constituent colleges/universities, historical data about the conference and other information for members of the media. The media guides tend to become larger,...

Scope and Contents This collection contains men’s college basketball media guides published by four-year colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. School typically published media guides on an annual basis prior to each college basketball season. The guides 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...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of printed media guides for men's college ice hockey teams in the United Statesa and Canada. Media guides were typically published by colleges or universities on an annual basis prior to each ice hockey season. The guides 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...

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A logbook documenting the 1839-40 voyage into the Atlantic of the American whaler Meridian.

Scope and Content Records of the Mexican American Cultural Center / Mexican American Catholic College in San Antonio, Texas; consisting of founding documents, clippings, correspondence, event files, fundraising files, endowment files, administrative files, Encuentro Program files, event files, history files, and files on other subjects and activities including the Diocesan Pastoral Plan for Hispanics and the HCAPL Pew Project; files of Sr. Rosa Maria Icaza; and video recordings of Fr. Virgil's Catholic...

Scope and Content Interviews, 2006-2009, with teaching priests of the Archdiocese of Louisville by Michael A. Diebold: including 26 cassette tapes containing the interviews and one book: The Anointed Servants: Teaching Priests of the Archdiocese of Louisville by Michael A. Diebold, containing transcriptions of his oral history interviews, 2009. With 13 audio compact discs with oral history interviews concerning St Thomas Seminary in Louisville, a minor seminary that operated from...

Scope and Content Correspondence with leaders in the liturgical movement including Donald Attwater, Godfrey Diekmann, Martin Hellriegel, Reynold Hillenbrand, Charles G. O'Connor, H.A. Reinhold, and many others, with members of the Congregation of Holy Cross including Theodore M. Hesburgh, and with bishops, nuns and Catholic lay men and women; manuscripts concerning liturgy by Jean Danielou, Ernst Grieshaer, Jean Guy, Johannes Hofinger, Josef Jungmann, John B. O'Connell, Damasus Winzen, Christine Mohrmann, and...

Scope and Content Correspondence, expense reports, project schedules, and advertising samples from work done for The National Catholic Reporter (1967-1978), Link (1972-1974), Successful Marriage (1973-1975), Celebration (1972-1978), Passionist Missions (1973-1982), Holy Cross Association (1964-1966), Divine Word Seminary (1970-1972), Ave Maria Press (ca.1957-1970), Catholic Church Extension Society (1965-1966), the Claretian publications (1962-1983) U.S. Catholic, Today, and Claretian vocation ads. ...

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Theological manuscript defending the Catholic Church as the one true, infallible church on earth.

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Clippings from a wide variety of newspapers; dealing with Church issues such celibacy, relations with the Vatican, and the Catholic press in the United States, and national issues of the time such as Vietnam, poverty, and civil rights.

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Correspondence, largely with White House staff persons, concerning his activities in the cause of social justice; and printed material.

Scope and Content Books and journals with contributions by Michael Novak, 1961-1990s; with material regarding Michael Novak as recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1986 and winner of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1994. Also clippings, copies of typewritten manuscripts for syndicated columns, and publications citing or reacting to his ideas. Arranged alphabetically by title under these headings: Books and Pamphlets, Journals, Magazines, Newspapers, Reprints, Columns and Clippings,...

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Audio cassettes containing interviews conducted by Michael O'Brien as part of the research for his 1998 biography of Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of magazines and illustrations assembled by Michael Oriard on the single subject of football dating from 1834 to 2012, though the bulk of the material pertains to the twentieth century. The majority of images are held within the original publications and are a visual record of the early years of football and offer comprehensive documentation of football's distinctive place in American culture. Significant publications include: Harper’s Weekly,...

Scope and Contents The Michael Perkins Papers consist of the professional and personal papers of Michael Perkins (1942-), a poet, critic, editor, and erotic fiction author. His professional materials represent his writing process for his fiction and poetry, from proposals sent to publishing houses, to multiple rough drafts of his works, to final proofs, as well as publicity for published materials. Also included is a large collection of editorial correspondence with literary agents and publishing houses. Along...