Hesburgh Libraries

Scope and Contents This collection consists of State Department copies of documents sent by British Ambassador Lord Lyons to U. S. Secretary of State William H. Seward on 8 August 1863, now being forwarded, on 13 August, to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, accompanied by a cover letter signed by Seward. The case itself was months old, and had spawned a good deal of paperwork prior to the appearance of this particular batch of documents. The two key items are; 1) a seven-page affidavit of Quinn's describing...

Scope and Content Office files including committee minutes and correspondence; financial records such as receipts, check stubs, accounts of program expenditures, fundraising proposals, and fundraising information; subject files on demographics, labor conditions of migrant workers, immigration, bilingual education, and other topics; La Raza news releases, clippings, and scrapbooks; correspondence and clippings from the Groundskeepers Rights Association, University of Notre Dame, 1977-1979; and files of the...

Scope and Contents The papers document the professional life of Mikhail Naumovich Kalik (1927-2017), a celebrated Soviet and Israeli film director and screenwriter. The papers consist of official documents, contracts, film scripts and stills, photographs on film sets, professional correspondence, press releases, promotional materials, posters, and copies of Kalik’s feature films and documentary films. Also included in the Archive are published and unpublished manuscripts by Kalik, copies of...

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Twenty-five advertising promotional cards, measuring 5 by 7 inches, published by the Milo Bar-bell Company. The cards feature weightlifters and strongmen in various poses, showing their muscles or exercising with various barbells and dumbbells. Many of the cards feature men posing while wearing little clothing. The original mailing envelope advertises the Milo Bar-bell Company, but none of the individual promotional cards reference the Milo Bar-bell Company.

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Executive Director's files, historical data, research files, development files, and copies of Ministry Bulletin; with information on the Midwest Project (diocesan surveys, 1982-1987); documentation of meetings of the board of directors; financial papers; reports and publications of the Center; slide shows, photographs, video tapes, a film, and a cassette audio tape.

Scope and Contents This collection contains more than 2,300 programs and scorecards published by Minor League Baseball teams. Teams published programs and scorecards for purchase by fans attending the games. The programs and scorecards usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial over the years and sometimes contain additional information about the teams, players, coaches, and...

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Miscellaneous manuscripts assembled by the archives.

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Records of the Congregation of Holy Cross at Notre Dame, and other records having to do with people associated with Notre Dame.

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Records of the town (later city) council of Mishawaka, Indiana, from its incorporation in 1845 through 1977; including minutes of council meetings, texts of ordinances, petitions, bids, expenses, and votes taken; with minutes of the Board of Public Safety and the Board of Public Works for certain years, along with their reports and financial disclosures.

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About two-thirds of this collection consists of Hinds County, Mississippi probate records from the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras, pertaining to the settlement of 12 local estates. The remainder includes miscellaneous 19th-century court and business records from elsewhere in Mississippi, and from Louisiana, Alabama, and Tennessee.

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Records of the Board, of the Chairpersons, of the Executive Secretaries or Executive Directors (Sister Paschaline Coff, OSB, Father Edward McCorkell, OCSO, Sister Katherine Howard, OSB, and Sister Mary Margaret Funk, OSB); financial records, publications, photographs, and audio-visual material; with documentation of the Gethsemani Encounter in 1996 and the Nuns in the West Conference in 2003.

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Records of the Notre Dame Monogram Club, including several boxes of photographs and a collection of related artifacts.

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Personal and military documents of Lt. Morris Cooper Foote, 9th Infantry, United States Army, along with related Congressional documents. Included in the collection is a manuscript diary recording Foote's experiences from 1866 to 1869 in Alaska (its first 19 months as a U.S. territory) and from 1869 to 1871 in the Department of the Platte.

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Chiefly correspondence. Correspondents include John Dubois, Simon Gabriel Bruté, Guy Ignatius Chabrat, SS, Henry Conwell, John Baptist David, SS, John England, Edward Dominic Fenwick, OP, Benedict Joseph Flaget, SS, John Joseph Hughes, Francis Patrick Kenrick, Gabriel Richard, and James Whitfield. Also correspondence from the Sulpician priests in the Kentucky missions, 1810-1834.

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Letters received by Mrs. Frank E. Hering, 1949-1950, concerning her publication of a book of poems written by her husband; also some Hering photographs.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 220 individual periodical issues with covers that feature boxer Muhammad Ali. The collection includes about sixty different titles. Boxing magazines include titles like Natonal Police Gazette, The Ring, and Boxing Digest. General sports magazines include magazines like Sports Illustrated and World Sports. General interest magazines include...

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Correspondence of Ley with G. Wilson Knight, Jackson Knight and Louis Hasley, 1930s-1977; writings of Ley; and clippings collected by Ley concerning Mark Van Doren.

Scope and Content Research files from his years as a graduate student at Berkeley, concerning Arthur Koestler and the Spanish Civil War, including his dissertation; files concerning his work as a professor at Indiana University, including course files, the dossier assembled in support of his review for promotion to full professor, and course evaluations; files from his time as a sports writer, including printed material, clippings, and manuscripts concerning soccer; files representing his academic...

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Printed and mimeographed sheet music, booklets, and lyrics, both sacred and secular; with a copy of the 1829 edition of Allen D. Carden's Missouri Harmony . Also a few audio recordings of Dennis Doyle and Paula Doyle.

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A manuscript book of notes and comments on various scriptural passages and two loose fragments of similar notes.

Scope and Content Chiefly letters received by Joseph Napoleon Perché and papers that had come into his possession, including documents concerning the controversy over the foundation of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in the early 1830s, involving the founder, Saint Euphrasie Pelletier, and Basil Anthony Moreau, founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross; also handwritten booklets of notes and instruction, 1824-1831, concerning moral theology, the service of God, contrition, Baptism, and Holy Scripture....

Scope and Contents The Fleischer collection includes professional and some personal papers of boxing writer and publisher Nat Fleischer. Most prevalent are carbon-copy typescripts of Fleischer's articles, serialized features, and books. There are manuscripts or manuscript drafts, whole or partial, relating to many of his published books, including biographies of boxers John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Terry McGovern, Jack McAuliffe, Gene Tunney, and Jack Dempsey (among others). There are also manuscripts...

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The papers consist of manuscripts, letters, and miscellaneous items of Natalia A. Roskina and of her daughter, Irina V. Roskina, as well as 50 photographs of the two women and people they knew such as: Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, and Evgenii Rein.

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A journal of sermon notes compiled by the Puritan divine Nathaniel Rogers (1598-1655), before and after his emigration from England to Massachusetts in 1636. The volume contains notes for at least 19 sermons audited by Rogers, and more than 100 composed by him.

Scope and Content Material associated with annual meetings of the Religious Brothers Institute and the National Assembly of Religious Brothers; consisting of correspondence, memoranda, programs, circular letters, mimeographed and printed handouts, press releases, newsletters, bulletins, financial papers, photographs, audio-visual material, and printed material including periodicals published by NARB: Brothers' Bulletin, Brothers' Newsletter, ...

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Correspondence, organizational records, budgets, newsletters, surveys, memoranda, printed matter, clippings, cassettes, films, and photographs; concerning justice, the role of women in the church, economic and racial inequality, nuclear disarmament, and U.S. policy in Central America. Correspondents include Sisters Ethne Kennedy, SSJ, Marjorie Tuite, OP, Merle Nolde, OSB, Catherine Pinkerton, CSJ, Mary O'Keefe, OP, and Kathleen Keating, SSJ.

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Records of the National Association for Lay Ministry, 1978-1997; consisting of board minutes and related documents, committee and task-force files, spirituality and theology files, membership files, documentation of the annual conference, correspondence, and research and development files; including periodicals, reports, surveys, studies, historical sketches, and documents from local chapters and regional meetings.

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Records of the National Association for Treasurers of Religious Institutes, 1982-2008, with information on early NATRI history, records of NATRI conferences, correspondence, reports, handbook, publications, office leases, articles of incorporation, bylaws, and board minutes; and records of the Legal Resource Center for Religious, 1984-2008, including bylaws, strategic planning, audit reports, brochures, legal seminar records, reports, correspondence, board minutes, and financial files.

Scope and Content Records of the National Association of Diocesan Ecumenical Officers (NADEO), 1973-1998; consisting of correspondence, memoranda, minutes and other meeting material, brochures, constitutions and by-laws, newsletters, survey papers, questionnaires, brochures, newsletters, handbooks, and policy statements; documenting NADEO finances, workshops, publications, radio and television publicity, and relationship with EDEO (Episcopal Diocesan Ecumenical Officers); with files representing the National...

Scope and Content Records of the NBCCC dating from 1964 to 2023; with files from board meetings and general meetings, chronological files, membership lists, files organized by Rev. Cyprian Davis, OSB, newsletters, printed ephemera, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, clippings, and other documents concerning the activities and interests of the organization. Also included are materials of allied organizations including the National Black Catholic Seminarians Association, the National Office for Black...