Hesburgh Libraries

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Records a meeting of the National Congress of Religious at Notre Dame in 1952, including photographs.

Scope and Content Minutes, financial reports, mail directories, clippings and policy resolutions of the national NFCCS (1940s-1967); minutes, reports, clippings, agenda, and press releases of NFCCS national congresses (1947-1967); minutes, reports, clippings, and correspondence of NFCCS- sponsored commissions including the Forensic Commission (1943-1959), Philosophy Commission (1955-1961), Literary Commission (1955-1966), Interracial Justice Commission (1944-1964), Confraternity of Christian Doctrine...

Scope and Content Correspondence, convention material, financial files, committee files, subject files, and program files; concerning celibacy, due process in the church, human rights, priests in politics, women in the church, and rural ministry; involving the Catholic Committee on Urban Ministry, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the National Assembly of Women Religious, the Canon Law Society of America, the Catholic Peace Fellowship, Catholic Relief Services, the National Council of Churches,...

Scope and Contents This collection contains media guides published by teams in the Natinal Football League. The annual guides published prior to each NFL season 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 broader material about the history of the franchise, information about the city, and other information for...

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This collection contains pre-season prospectuses published by teams in the National Football League. The annual prospectuses generally included biographies of coaches and players, statistics, schedules, and other information. The prospectuses—produced closer to the beginning of the pre-season—were often typed and mimeographed and were less extensive than the contemporaneous team media guides.

Formats include prospectuses.

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This collection consists of National Football League annual team yearbooks. Aimed at fans, yearbooks typically contained information and articles about players, managers, and coaches, as well as statistics and schedules. Most yearbooks also featured numerous photographs of players and personnel and other team-related images. Some yearbooks contained advertisements.

Formats include yearbooks.

Scope and Contents The collection contains material related to the Chicago-based National Girls Baseball League, a professional league that rivaled the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. The collection chiefly consists of copies of the official magazine/program of the National Girls Baseball League published under various titles from 1949 to 1953 by Publishers, Inc. (1949) and by Merrell Features (1950-1953). The programs typically contain pictures, biographies, articles, and statistics about the...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of the National Ideal Benefit Society (NIBS), an African American insurance cooperative headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. It also contains related papers of NIBS founder A.W. Holmes. The correspondence in the collection is mostly written by African Americans, from NIBS policy holders to leaders of the African American community. There is also correspondence between A.W. Holmes and various local churches and benefit societies, national charitable...

Scope and Content Microfilmed excerpts of books containing texts and translations of 12th to 14th century Irish documents; including 12th century correspondence concerning the invasion of Ireland by King Henry II; 14th century letters of submission from chiefs and kings of Ireland to King Richard II; the charter to the city of Dublin (1171-1229); the statutes of the city of Kilkenny (1366); and a (12th century?) mythological account of Ireland from the time of the biblical flood until the birth of St....

Scope and Content Correspondence; minutes and meeting material, including financial reports, from the national board; articles, dissertations, and theses concerning the Marriage Encounter movement and related topics; position papers, manuals, and written descriptions of the program for the Marriage Encounter weekend; reports, correspondence, and other records from NME annual national conferences and other meetings; and tape recordings. Correspondents include Rev. Gabriel Calvo, Pat and Patty...

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Correspondence of Brother Joseph M. Davis, S.M. (1927- ) executive director of the NOBC, founded in 1970. Correspondence regards, for the most part, donations and retreat projects.

Scope and Content Early files of the National Federation of Priests' Councils, 1969-1972; general correspondence with members and non-members, 1975-1979; regional correspondence, 1973-1982; official by-laws, 1973-1982; board meeting correspondence, notes, and minutes, 1974-1988; needs assessment evaluations of NOCERCC, 1982-1984; speeches given and collected by NOCERCC presidents and board members, 1974-1976; membership records, 1973-1983; NOCERCC publications, including newsletters, presbyteral renewal...

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Records of the National Pastoral Life Center; including general office files, Church magazine files, development files, pastoral services files, Roundtable files, New Pastors' Workshop files, Executive Director files, and files of NPLC founder and director Msgr. Philip J. Murnion; with photo albums, videos, and other audio-visual material; and 49,767 computer files amounting to 33 Gigabytes of digital data.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of printed material related to the National Women’s Football League (NWFL) and predecessor teams associated with the Women’s Professional Football League. The NWFL was a professional American tackle football league that existed from 1974 through 1988. The collection includes programs, yearbooks, guidebooks, ephemera, and clippings. The programs and yearbooks typically contain rosters, player bios and photographs, coaches bios and photographs, team histories, rules,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of programs for the NCAA Division 1 Women’s Softball Championships, also known as the Women College World Series. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, bios, and statistics about the players on the teams competing in the Women’s College World Series, as well as pictures, information, and bios about coaches, team personnel, and administrators. The programs usually also contain articles about contemporary softball, information about the host schools and...

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Records of Notre Dame Foundation Director John H. Wilson, C.S.C., including photographs.

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Poetry manuscripts of Jean E.U. Nealis, 1885-1899; holy cards from paintings by Mother Margaret Nealis, RSCJ, superior of Sacred Heart Convent, Montreal; the nostalgic correspondence of N.J. Nealis with John F. O'Hara, CSC, President of the University of Notre Dame, 1934-1935; and a few other letters and clippings by or about members of the Nealis family.

Scope and Contents The Negro Leagues Pennant Collection consists of nine felt pennants for African American baseball teams that played in the organized Negro Leagues during the 1930s and 1940s. The teams represented in the collection are the Homestead Grays, two examples, with one version spelled as “Greys”, the New York Black Yankees, the New York Cuban Stars, the Baltimore Elite Giants, the Newark Eagles, and the Philadelphia Stars. The pennants contain no information about their origin or date of creation....

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Papers having to do with the proposed merger of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College (in Notre Dame, Indiana) from Saint Mary's point of view, 1967-1972: correspondence, reports, clippings.

Scope and Content Research files of Heather Hartel concerning Father Nelson H. Baker: consisting of general Lackawanna & Bethlehem Steel history from Lexis / Nexis; Buffalo News articles on Father Baker; copies from the Buffalo Library's local news archives on Father Baker; websites that mentioned Baker; material from the Redemptorist Provincial Archives by Thomas A. Galvin, author of the book on Baker, Modern Apostle of Charity, 1925; bibliographies of Father Baker Sources;...

Scope and Content Personal and research papers of Rev. Nelson J. Callahan; consisting of documents pertaining to Church affairs in the Diocese of Cleveland and the Archdiocese of New York; photocopies of Richard Lalor Burtsell's diary (1865-1912) and related material; and research papers regarding Rev. Eugene O'Callaghan, author of the Jus letters. Also printed material and photographs related to Father Callahan's research and audio tapes with recordings of talks, songs, and teacher training lectures given by...

Scope and Content Abortion material (re Network's non-position); Associated Organization files; Church Social Justice Teaching files; Church Statements; Citizen Budget Campaign files; Correspondence arranged by state; Development and Fundraising files; Direct Mail and Promotional files; Educational resources published by Network; Election Workship files and Charts 1988 and 1992; Equal Rights Amendment files; Federal Budget Material; Field Office material; Field Organizing Material; Fundraising files; Housing...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, and other items related to the New York Yankees' efforts to encourage state legislation (primarily the 1918 Lawson Bill) permitting Sunday baseball in New York state. Many of the letters are directed to Yankees president Jacob Ruppert by politicians responding to the club's letter asking, “Will you, if elected, favor an amendment of the Penal Code which will permit the citizens to enjoy professional base ball and other forms of harmless...

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Special issues of newspapers, most of the Catholic, celebrating anniversaries of dioceses, bishops, and newspapers, or dealing with some special event or holiday.

Scope and Content Letters received, 1888-1902, most of them having to do with the publication of his Epitome of the New Testament, a book of selections in Greek; printed copies of his Epitome (1900) and Poikila Diegemata, Anekdota, Axiomata kai Erothseis (1885), a booklet of Greek inventions intended to entertain Notre Dame students; seven manuscripts on philosophy, logic, moral theology, ancient literature, liturgy, reading, and Latin grammar; and...

Scope and Contents The first part of the collection includes a video archive of interviews conducted by Nicolas Miletitch with seventeen famous Soviet human rights activists and dissidents. The video archive is accompanied by full transcripts of interviews. The interviewees describe their “anti-Soviet” activities defending human rights under the totalitarian regime in the 1960s-1980s. Among topics discussed are working of the Solzhenitsyn Fund; activities of the Moscow Helsinki Watch group (1976-1980) which...

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Correspondence; financial records such as expense accounts; manuscripts of speeches given at the Julius Arthur Nieuwland memorial exercises, January 10, 1937 and printed matter such as Nieuwland's The Story of Synthetic Rubber, 1935.

Scope and Content Polcyn's diary, 1941-1943, relating experiences with Bishop Bernard Sheil; correspondence, including letters from Frank Sheed, Maisie Ward, Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Eddie Doherty, Hans Ansgar Reinhold, Donald Attwater, Renard Koehnemann, Ann Harrigan Makletzoff and a letter from Dorothy Day; clippings concerning Bishop Bernard Sheil, John Cogley, and Pat and Patty Crowley, 1941-1979. One folder concerning the unionization of the CYO, consisting of correspondence, memoranda,...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of several pieces of correspondence and ephemera originally sent to Nora Ashe in June 1916 and June 1917. Included are three letters, two telegrams, and one copy of the Liberator newspaper.The content mainly relates to the imprisonment of Nora’s brother, Thomas Ashe, in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising, his homecoming journey in June 1917 as well as some references to the impending 1917 East Clare by-election. One letter additionally hints at...