Hesburgh Libraries

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

Scope and Content Minutes, agenda, programs, reports, curricula vitae, essays, lectures, articles, book reviews, notes, lists, newsletters, brochures, circular letters, memoranda, tape recordings, photographs and correspondence; concerning the Society of Catholic College Teachers of Sacred Doctrine, College Theology Society, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Manresa Educational Corporation, Conference of Major Superiors of Women, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Consortium Perfectae Caritatis, Sister...

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An envelope containing the dried petals of a red rose. The envelope bears a notation from George Bernard Shaw "A red rose given to me by Mrs. Jas. Stephens... Mch. 7/25."

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Correspondence, minutes, newsletters and articles concerning the Christian Family Movement and the National Peace Academy campaign initiated by Lucy and her husband Dan Lucey in 1966.

Scope and Contents One board game for two to four players manufactured by McLoughlin Brothers, New York and copyrighted by J. A. Crozier. Players spin to advance pawns along a spiral-shaped course replicating the globe-circling trip accomplished by Nellie Bly. Seventy-two illustrated squares describe Bly’s location on each day of her journey. Some squares are marked with instructions that send players forward or back along the course. The first player arrive at the 73rd space, representing a return to ‘New...

Scope and Contents The Rubén Darío Collection is a collection of writings and personal materials of Rubén Darío. The majority of the collection consists of clippings written by Darío, as well as clippings written about Darío, covering a hundred-year span. Included in his personal papers are photographs, correspondence, and manuscripts. Also included in the collection is a series of research materials about Darío compiled by an unknown researcher. Significant topics include Nicaraguan poets, history, and...

Scope and Contents The collection of Rudi Holzapfel on James Clarence Mangan includes Holzapfel’s notes, drafts, collected correspondence, publications and clippings of Mangan’s published work. Rudi Holzapfel’s bibliography, James Clarence Mangan: A Check List of Printed and Other Sources (1969), was the most complete bibliography of Mangan until Jacque Chuto’s James Clarence Mangan: A Bibliography ( 1999). Holzapfel’s work on Mangan continued over many...

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Naval navigation calculations, 1918; class schedules, notes and blueprints and diagrams for an electric door opener, University of Notre Dame science hall; a thesis by Probst, "Modern Automatic Telephony System by the Automatic Electric Co., Chicago, Ill.," 1911; and photographs.

Scope and Content Papers of Rufus Rauch, consisting of manuscript material related to his interest in Dante, with special attention to art based on or illustrating Dante's works; other material useful for the study of The Divine Comedy gathered in preparation for a never published book, A Companion to Dante; typewritten manuscripts of his Bachelor's thesis on Newman (1924), his Master's thesis on Chesterton (1925), and articles or drafts on T.S. Eliot,...

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Two-volume scrapbook containing original drawings and text for In Ruhleben Camp (1915) and The Ruhleben Camp Magazine (1916-1917) compiled possibly for postwar publication. The satirical drawings and writings deal with life of British civilians interned in a German prisoner camp in Ruhleben, Germany. Two bound volumes of the published camp magazine accompany the scrapbook.

Scope and Content Sacramental and miscellaneous records of Sacred Heart Church and some of the early missionary activity in Northern Indiana and Southwestern Michigan, especially Bertrand and Niles; baptismal, marriage, burial, and dispensation records (1830-1910); records of confraternities and spiritual favors and indulgences established at Sacred Heart (1850s-1960s); a few subject files; and a collection of near-print mailings, reports, bulletins, and lists generated by Sacred Heart Parish (mainly early...

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Manuscripts of books published by Sadlier, 1950s-1976; such by-products of publishing as galley proofs and tear sheets; company financial records including New York City sales tax records, 1930s-1948, invoices, and shipping records, 1930s-1950s; a manuscript by Anna T. Sadlier, dating from 1892, concerning the foundation of Montreal on the occasion of its 250th anniversary; and photographs.

Scope and Content Four letters written by Augustin Schoeffler to another priest, Louis Hoffer: an undated autograph letter; an autograph letter written in Paris, 12 November 1846; an autograph letter written in Paris, 8 September 1847, and a manuscript copy of a letter written in Hong Kong, 24 May 1848. One letter written by Abbé Nicolas Krick to an unidentified woman, 26 January 1849. One purple pouch embroidered with the monogram "VAS" (Venerable Augustin Schoeffler) in which all five letters had...

Scope and Content Records of Saint Benedict's Farm in Waelder, Texas; including the original Prospectus of a New Monastery, essays and poetry by the founder, George R. Gannon, writings by John Kelly and other members of the community, and financial records; with information on the way of life, activities, and accomplishments of the community. Also Audio-visual material consisting of phonograph albums, audio tapes, a video recording containing music composed and performed by members of Saint...

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Civil War Records recounting the war and post-war activities of Saint Joseph County residents; with correspondence of soldiers, including Lt. Col. Alfred B. Wade and Schuyler Colfax; the records of various Saint Joseph county war offices, including registers of the sick, wounded and dead; and records of activities of several Indiana infantry regiments, among them the 73rd Indiana Infantry (1862-1924).

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Newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, and local history publications relating to the history of South Bend and St. Joseph County, Indiana, with information on historic preservation, the Studebaker Corporation, Amish Acres, Bethel College, Stan Coveleski, the Indiana American Revolutionary Bicentennial Commission, and the Northern Indiana Historical Society.

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Early Saint Joseph County records as compiled by various town officials, 1829-1865; including a 1829 field survey of the area, early court records, and records of the County clerk, auditor, Justice of the Peace, and Treasurer; also a list of grave plots in Saint Joseph County compiled in 1939 by the WPA.

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Miscellaneous records and printed material, including The Peat Bog: St. Joseph's Farm a booklet about the farm by Brother Carl Tiedt, CSC.

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One game manufactured by Selchow & Righter Company. Players roll dice and move pieces across a board marked to represent promotions and demotions in rank for the four United States Armed Forces: Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Corps. The player who reaches the center of the board first becomes Commander in Chief and leads the other players in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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Scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning his career; with a resolution passed by the board of directors of the Knights of Columbus at Stritch's death, 1958.

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A manuscript journal kept by Pennsylvania native Samuel Harris from 14 October to 1 December 1774, recording the progress of a surveying party up the Susquehanna River.

Scope and Content Correspondence with Archibald MacLeish, John Ciardi, Princess Grace of Monaco, and others who participated in the programs of the International Poetry Forum; correspondence with Jacques Maritain; journals containing manuscript drafts of poems and fiction by Hazo; manuscripts and galley proofs of his books; periodicals and books containing his work; books published by the International Poetry Forum; and 18 audio tapes, most of them from Hazo's radio program, featuring interviews with...

Scope and Content Two petitions involving Samuel Mazzuchelli. A positio (i.e., a volume containing documentation assembled to support his cause for canonization as a saint), "Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P., Missionary to the United States: a documentary account of his life, virtues, and reputation for holiness." Also a copy of The Memoirs of Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P. (Chicago: Priory Press, 1967) and a mimeographed index to the book prepared by...

Scope and Content Writings generally having to do with Catholics in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and especially St. Mary's Catholic Church there; consisting of issues of Christian Culture containing articles by Sener, 1890-1891; offprints, 1880s-1890s; and a printed engraving of a priest, possibly the Very Rev. Bernard Keenan, pastor of St. Mary's. All of this material has been filed in box 20 the General Collection: ...

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A manuscript journal of the Pennsylvania Quaker Samuel Preston, describing a 19-day trip on horseback through Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, February-March 1788.

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A family correspondence of 31 items whose principal author is Sgt. Samuel T. Reeves, writing as a member of Co. C, 80th Indiana Infantry. Many of the letters date from the spring of 1865, when Reeves was convalescing at Camp Dennison, Ohio.

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Correspondence, financial and parish records, subject files, histories of the mission, printed material, and photographs. Principal correspondents include John Cardinal Cody of Chicago, Archbishop Marcos McGrath of Panama, and the priests of the mission and the Archdiocese of Chicago: Leo T. Mahon, Donald Headley, Frederick McTernan, John Enright, and John Greeley.

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Letters written by and to Sarah Stilson, a teacher in New York State, during the Civil War. At the heart of the group is a lively correspondence of 25 letters between Stilson and Oliver Waldo West, a Union cavalry officer.

Scope and Contents Three subscription books (1877-1913), two letters, a typewritten draft of an article reporting on a track meet (circa 1944), and photographs. The archives also holds bound volumes of the magazine and maintains a digital collection of issues, 1867-2011. The Scholastic photograph collection dates from the 1960s and is an ongoing collection. The formats range from prints, negatives, slides, and digital. The...

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Chiefly optical instruments such as microscopes, lenses and related parts, cameras, glass plates, and slides; also pipettes, Bunsen burners, saws, knives, tweezers, rulers, film holders, mirrors, and other tools.