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This collection consists of political ephemera produced by Solidarity (Solidarnosc), a Polish labor union founded in 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard. It was the first trade union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by a communist party. Materials include broadsides, pamphlets, handbills, realia, and periodicals.

Scope and Content The Notre Dame Archives is the repository for the Archives of the American Province of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. The records of the collection consist first of those records generated or collected and kept by the administrative structures of the Province, including the Ancilla Domini Sisters, Inc., corporate board, the Provincial Chapters and Assemblies and the committess associated with them, the Provincial Leadership and its committees, and the departments and offices of the...

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One scrapbook of newspaper clippings dealing with the death of Pope Pius XI and the election and coronation of Pius XII; phonograph records (78 rpm) of the coronation ceremonies for Pius XII, 1939; film and videotape of the funeral of Pius XII and the election and coronation of Pope John XXIII.

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Portraits, mostly photographic, of individuals associated with the Catholic Church in America and/or Notre Dame, arranged alphabetically by last name.

Scope and Content Photocopy of treaty of 1821; typescript of notes taken from Engineering Field Surveys of 1828-1835 concerning St. Joseph Mission, Carey Mission, and Pokagon Village; a copy of the journal of proceedings at the signing of the Treaty of Fort Wayne, 1809; photocopies of nine letters of a missionary to Pokagon village, Brother Joseph, dated 1843-1848; photostat copies of the Muster Rolls of Potawatomi Indians, 1836-1837, copied from the National Archives; and two items of correspondence...

Scope and Contents The first part of the collection (boxes 134-215) consists of three series: Student Employment, 1906-07 & 1909-11 (boxes 152,153,209,212) Concerts, Lectures, Films, & Movies, ca.1911-20 (boxes 213-215) General Correspondence, ca.1905-1911 (boxes 134-211) Scattered Cavanaugh correspondence for 1905-06 may be found in in UPEL 115-133/. The bulk of the correspondence in this part of the collection dates 1906-11, though there are some runs as early as 1904 and as late as 1912,...

Scope and Contents Alphabetically arranged records containing general correspondence and subject files, budgets, contracts, documents concerning development and maintenance of the campus, and documentation of interactions with faculty, administration, alumni, and the world outside Notre Dame. The records of Notre Dame presidents were once numbered in a single sequence throughout the record group, and the four boxes from the Burns presidency are still numbered as if they were part of that sequence, boxes 43...

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Consists of documents and material found in the Presidents' Records and from miscellaneous sources.

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Thirty-one personal letters written between members of the Price family of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois during the American Civil War. The letters are notable for their Copperhead and anti-abolitionist sentiments.

Scope and Content Letters and other material relating to the Eucharistic Convention held at the University of Notre Dame, August 7th and 8th, 1894. Correspondents include Rev. William Corby, C.S.C. (1833-1897), President of the University of Notre Dame. Also other letters from bishops and priests in reply to invitations to the Eucharistic Conventions at the University of Notre Dame (1894, 1897) and the first National Eucharistic Congress in Washington, DC (1895); addressed to Bishop Camillus Maes, president...

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A group of 12 letters written by the Western Pennsylvania Quakers John and Joseph Pugh during the Civil War. Included are 6 letters written by John during his service aboard the U.S.S. Quaker City, of the navy's East Gulf Blockading Squadron.

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Fragments of the draft report concerning presidential reconstruction in South Carolina, perhaps by the U.S. military commander of the state, Major General Quincy A. Gillmore.

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Notes, notebooks, offprints, mimeographed material, and other papers; including five handwritten notebooks in French on Maurice Blondel, notes on analytical geometry and recursive functions, and a mimeographed book on Plotinus and related material dating from the 1930s; also Rainich geometry for teachers; papers documenting a geometry course; Arnold Ross material; anniversary conference material; and related books.

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Papers of Rabbi Michael Signer representing his interest in relations between Jews and Catholics, his scholarship in medieval biblical exegesis, his teaching, his service to the community, and his establishment and development of the Notre Dame Holocaust Project.

Scope and Content Manuscripts of literary and philosophical essays, articles, lectures, and books; notebooks and diaries (1947-1986), correspondence (1954-1987), and alphabetical files; involving Jacques Maritain, Soren Kierkegaard, Thomas Aquinas, Boethius, G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Walker Percy, and other philosophers and writers; concerning contemporary Thomism, analogy, natural law, Humanae Vitae, the Second Vatican Council, and changes in the Catholic Church; with drafts and some...

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Hugh Rank, a 1954 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, was an author and member of the National Council of Teachers of English. He wrote about persuasive techniques in advertising, and in 1974, he published a Twayne Series biography of Edwin O’Connor, an Irish-American author. Contents of the collection include research material collected in the process of writing his book on O’Connor, as well as teaching aids and publications on evaluating rhetoric in advertising.

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Correspondence, notes, drafts, illustrations, articles, lectures, manuscripts, and research files.

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A collection consisting of the correspondence, writings, and drawings of the American poet Raymond E. F. Larsson (1901-1991). Also present are manuscripts by other authors, miscellaneous printed matter, and items relating to a 1983 exhibit about Larsson held in Notre Dame's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.

Scope and Content Eight scrapbooks (chiefly 1986-1987) documenting the crisis in the ecclesiastical career of Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen, compiled by Janice Wasden Price; containing newspaper clippings, press releases, memoranda, correspondence, photocopies, reports, circulars, statements, and pictures; a box of newspapers and ephemera, including many issues of The Progress from the same period; a ninth scrapbook containing "Key Documents in the Hunthausen Affair,...

Scope and Content Correspondence with possible guest authors at the 1972 University of Notre Dame Sophomore Literary Festival and their agents, sometimes with related publicity, collected by the chairman of the festival. The majority of the correspondents express their regrets that they cannot participate in the festival; the correspondence with the authors who did attend is naturally more extensive and usually relates to arrangements for attending but in a few cases includes more substantial topics as well....

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Correspondence of Raymond Morrissey, University of Notre Dame class of 1934, with Eugene Burke, CSC, Matthew Walsh, CSC, and Bishop John O'Hara, CSC.

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Correspondence, 1920s-1950s; his writings, including a manuscript of "A Code of Ethics" and memoirs of his youth, 1953; and examinations.

Scope and Content Sermons, talks, lectures, days of renewal, newspaper columns (The Question Box) 1967-1977, STD dissertation St Thomas and the Secular Society (1947), manuscript of book New Wine Bursting Old Skins: Memories of an Old Priest Longing for a New Church, lithograph, and certificates; photographs including many from his 50th anniversary as a priest, some showing his classmates, and some from 1930s Europe; mortarboard,...

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A small group of papers originating with the Read family of the central Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Included are 28 letters written by three different family members during the Civil War: Confederate States soldier Thomas Griffin Read, Co. I, 33rd Virginia Infantry (10 letters); his wife Martha White Read, of Augusta County (15 letters); and the CS artilleryman John Henry Read (3 letters).

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith. It includes: Smith's clipped copies of his printed columns, mostly 1954-1982; newspapers and magazines with pieces by or about Smith; clipped columns of Stanley Woodward and Joe H. Palmer; manuscripts and/or proofs of several of Smith's books; an accumulation of around 125 manuscript letters preserved by Smith, including examples signed by Melvin Belli, ...

Scope and Contents The bulk of the Reggie Brown Football Coaching Papers consist of a group of notebooks compiled by football coach Reginald W. P. "Reggie" Brown. Five notebooks (1904, 1905, 1905, 1911, and 1914) document Brown’s years as an assistant coach at Harvard University. One notebook (1928) comes from his stint as the head football coach at Boston University. The 1904 and 1905 notebooks chronicle the events of those Harvard seasons through clippings, practice notes, games notes, play diagrams, game...

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This collection includes drafts of speeches and poetry and letters written by Cuban vanguard poet, Regino Pedroso. Also included are photographs, materials about Pedroso, and a postcard to Pedroso from Langston Hughes.

Scope and Content Printed material concerning the Alexian Brothers, Augustinians, Benedictines, Capuchins, Brothers of the Christian Schools, Cistercians, Claretians, Society of the Divine Word, Dominicans, Franciscans, Glenmary Home Missioners, Congregation of Holy Cross, Jesuits, Josephites, Marianists, Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity, Norbertines, Oblates of Mary Immaculate, Pallotine Fathers, Passionists, Pauline Fathers, Paulists, Society of the Precious Blood, Redemptorists, Sacred Heart...