Hesburgh Libraries

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Records of Notre Dame's WSND radio station, including a large collection of audio recordings.

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Records 1967-1978, arranged chronologically and consisting chiefly of liturgies, with some correspondence and reports.

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Correspondence, comments on the campaign, campaign literature, Free City Day information, news clippings, campaign buttons, and a petition with signatures.

Scope and Contents Documents created between 1856 and 1947 and collected by multiple individuals and institutions with connections to the town of Harbor Springs, Michigan, and surrounding communities. The bulk of the collection documents the efforts of Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird to substantiate and defend claims to land ownership and annuities on behalf of Odawa and Ojibwa bands in Little Traverse Bay and nearby communities, stipulated in treaties signed with the United States government in 1836...

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Microfilm of a rule book for the Oblates of Providence. The rule book, in French, followed by an English version, details obligations of the superior, oblates, and postulates, tasks to be done, Sunday and feast day observances, guidelines for the school and the children attending it, daily routine, dress, education for the sisters, and reformed constitution in French. The reel contains two copies of the book.

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Records of Joseph H. Burke, CSC, the Notre Dame liason with the US Government in charge of Military Training during the First World War (WWI, World War One). Consists almost entirely of correspondence with Washington and the Army about administrative matters and government property (primarily ordnance). The papers have been arranged several times, but it seems that at least some of the original order remains.

Scope and Contents The double-sided wooden board game features Knute Rockne’s Official Football Game and the Official Graham McNamee Radio Scoreboard for Football on one side, and the Official World Series Baseball Game and the Graham McNamee Radio Scoreboard for Baseball on the other side.The football game board features images and facsimile autographs of Knute Rockne and Graham McNamee. The baseball game board features two images of Graham McNamee with a radio microphone and features the text,...

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Research files, including gigabytes of digital data, drafts of writings, and files representing her teaching, professional contributions to medieval history, and service as a member of the history department at Notre Dame and as head of the Medieval Institute; with slides of medieval Spain and other photographs supporting her teaching and research.

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Collection of letters written to and from Ann Arbour Olyniec, a member of the first cohort of female undergraduate students to begin undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame in 1972. Letters document Olyniec’s experiences as an undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Austin, Saint Mary’s College, and The University of Notre Dame from 1970 to 1974.

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A four-page letter written on 15 April 1863 by Civil War private Ora W. Harvey of the 46th Massachusetts Infantry, mostly discussing camp recreations, especially baseball.

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Oral history interviews conducted under the auspices of the University of Notre Dame Archives, including audio recordings and transcriptions of interviews on Catholic Action and Social Justice; the National Catholic Reporter; and Notre Dame faculty, staff, and students. Governed by agreements with the people interviewed, some of these are open for use and some closed or restricted.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of college football Orange Bowl programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the Orange Bowl. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, and Orange Bowl administrators, data about the participating schools, and advertisements. Some programs include information about other events associated with the Orange Bowl including beauty pageants and basketball...

Scope and Content Correspondence, journal, clippings, and manuscript drafts of books, speeches, articles, and essays, both published and unpublished, 1823-1876; including correspondence with the Comte de Montalembert, Louis Veuillot, Lord Acton, John Henry Cardinal Newman, George Bancroft, Salmon Chase, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Isaac Hecker, Henry David Thoreau, and Archbishops John Hughes, Francis Patrick Kenrick and Martin Spalding; manuscripts of essays by Albert Brisbane, Archbishop Francis P. Kenrick, George...

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Correspondence, notes, and copies of official documents concerning the genealogy of Orville T. Chamberlain, including a Chamberlain letter to James Edwards (25 October 1898) discussing Notre Dame's participation in the Civil War and a copy of the guide to the Chamberlain Family Papers in the Indiana Historical Society Library.

Scope and Content The records in this collection document some of the day-to-day details of the planning and construction of Notre Dame Stadium from 1929 to 1930. Although incomplete, the records offer details of a range of the decisions made as the plans for the Stadium were conceived and executed. The records reveal changes made during the construction phase, as well as decisions that were reached about various construction details. The collection does not contain the architectural blue prints or...

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Photocopies of correspondence and articles by and about Romero; his pastoral letters and speeches; books and pamphlets containing his writings, including his diary; and a biography by Jon Sobrino.

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A manuscript diary for 1860 kept by a doctor named Ostrom Stephen Lont, from Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota. Accompanying the diary are around 40 unidentified carte-de-visite portrait photographs and two Lont family bibles.

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Photocopy of Otto Bird's typewritten autobiograpical manuscript, "Seeking a Center", 1990.

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Published and unpublished music used by the parish choir of Our Lady of Sorrows before the Second Vatican Coucil; consisting of 417 items dating from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century.

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Records of the Redemptoristine Nuns of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Monastery; consisting of member files, prioress files, correspondence files, ministry files, rule revision files, files on Redemptorist houses, writings, reports, financial records, photographs, and realia; with records of changes in contemplative monastic life after the Second Vatican Council.

Scope and Content Correspondence concerning OSV publications and copies of the publications themselves; OSV minutes and communications, 1968-1971; OSV circulation and financial records, 1950s-1971; minutes of OSV staff meetings, 1961-1967; correspondence and contracts with Teamsters Union and Typographical Union; appointment book, 1965; correspondence and transcripts of recipients of Archbishop Noll Scholarships, 1955-1971; records relating to OSV college grants, 1950s-1970s; reproduction of Catholic Telegram...

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A collection of fourteen manuscripts, mostly letters, providing first-hand accounts of the sinking of the packet ship Liverpool in the North Atlantic in July 1822. The principal author is Hewlett Townsend Coles, the ship's second officer.

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A collection of the papers of Pádraig Ó Concheanainn, including letters on Irish language publications and family papers.

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Records kept by Fr Ramon Gaitan and Fr Juan Romero; consisting of bylaws, constitutions, press clippings, publications, directories, memoranda, letters, meeting material, papers from national congresses, recommendations, historical sketches, minutes, financial records, and interviews. Also audio recordings, slides and black-and-white photographic prints, publications by PADRES, and printed material collected by PADRES concerning Hispanic priests, bishops, sisters, and brothers.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal papers of members of the Paris and Heard families of Augusta and Rockingham counties, Virginia. Materials date from 1852 to 1937, with the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction years all represented. Included are land deeds, contracts, and militia records of James R. Paris, as well as family correspondence and photographs. The Antebellum letters are chiefly between Lucy Paris, James’s wife, and her family, while later correspondence is mainly between...

Scope and Content Miscellaneous original and transcribed records of various Catholic parishes, orphanages, schools, and cemeteries in Illinois (4 churches and institutions), Indiana (7), Kentucky (more than 50), Michigan (5), Missouri (2), Pennsylvania (1), and Wisconsin (1). There are also records of one Jewish Synagogue (Temple Beth-El, South Bend, Indiana). Baptismal, confirmation, marriage, and death registers; gravestone inscriptions; membership lists; pew rent account books; censuses;...

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Anniversary books, pamphlets, dedications, financial statements, invitations, directories, bulletins, and newspaper clippings representing Catholic parishes throughout the United States, with more material for Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana than for other states; a few photographs, mainly from Indiana and Kentucky.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of eleven letters and two records dating from 1757 to 1777. Six of the letters are directed to Sarah Williams (four from the years before her marriage to Parsons, one from the time of the marriage, and one from after Parsons' death). Most are from female friends or relatives. There are three letters from Joseph Parsons, Jr. to his father, mostly relating to land and debts. Two additional letters (April 1764) were provoked by the ill health of Joseph Parsons, Jr. There...

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Records of Partners for the Common Good, 1994-2000; financial files representing investments of religious orders in credit unions and local development funds: consisting of minutes and other meeting material, lists, financial documents, correspondence, chronologies, manuals, reports, legal documents, personnel files, and other papers; documenting activities of the Board of Advisors, Staff, Borrowing Partners, and Investing Partners.

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Photographs taken by Brother Pascal Tomaszewski, CSC, with scenes of Notre Dame football games, quadrangles, buildings, statues, and people.