Hesburgh Libraries

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Books having to do with the history of the Catholic Church in the United States and territories that eventually became part of the U.S.; reference works likely to be helpful to researchers in the Notre Dame Archives; and books collected by Francis P. Clark.

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials relating to the family and careers of artists Franklin and Hanson Booth. It contains family portraits, print ephemera, and writings created by Franklin Booth, his sister Julia Booth Christian, brother Frederick Booth, sister-in-law Margaret Booth, niece Portia Booth, and nephews Jim Christian and Paul Christian II. Writings of family friend and Franklin Booth aficionado Howard C. Caldwell are also found. Topics of note include Booth Family history, Franklin...

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Much of this collection consists of incoming business correspondence to officers and directors of the Boston and Providence Railroad and its branches, written in the 1830s, 40s, and 50s.

Scope and Content Nineteen compact discs containing containing oral history interviews conducted by Michael Diebold representing the experience of Boys Haven / Boys and Girls Haven residents, counsellors, directors, and board members; digitized records and papers of Boys and Girls Haven, consisting of clippings and memorabilia representing the life of Fr James C. Maloney, founder of Boys Haven; correspondence from the late 1940s about the founding and early years; highlights of board meetings; newsletters;...

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The typescript is a complete short story with the title "A Coat for Confirmation". This appears to be an early draft of Behan's short story "The Confirmation Suit", first published in The Catholic Standard, 27 March, 1953, and later included in Behan's Brendan Behan's Island: An Irish Sketchbook (1962). Ths short story has also been published in school anthologies.

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This collection consists of three letters and two notes sent from Irish playwright Brian Friel to actor Pat Laffan and theatre designer Bronwen Casson.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of audio recordings made by Brian H. Smith in Chile in 1975. These include recordings of interviews with Chilean bishops and recordings of Smith’s audio summaries of interviews with bishops which could not be recorded. Each interview consists of responses to a structured set of 41 survey quesitons concerning the pastoral, social and political aspects of the Catholic Church in Chile from 1925 to 1975. Also included are recordings of conversations with clergy and laity...

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An accumulation of 96 single-sheet manuscript file documents issued by or directed to the judiciary of Bristol County in southeastern Massachusetts, mostly during the colonial period.

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Typewritten transcription of diary entries concerning Rev. James Burns, CSC, during January and February of the last year of his life, 1940.

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Extracts (quotations) of passages concerning the history of the Congregation of Holy Cross taken from manuscript records and printed sources.

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Books appearing to be book-keeping workbooks or, less likely, actual accounts, tentatively identified as belonging to Brother Alban; the books, written in shorthand, refer to transactions between persons who could not be identified as Notre Dame students, large shipments to cities of materials that could not be identified, and very large exchanges of money. The ledgers are most likely work-books used for the purpose of short-hand and accounting instruction at the University of Notre Dame.

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Black and white and color negatives taken by Brother Charles McBride regarding Notre Dame athletics.

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Essays by Brother Franklin Cullen concerning the history of the Congregation of Holy Cross, many of them presented at Conferences on the History of the Congregations of Holy Cross.

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Anonymous diary of life at the University of Notre Dame during the fall of 1867.

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Mimeographed notes concerning Sufism in Northern India and Bengal, based on A History of Sufi-ism in Bengal by Enamul Haq, and concerning the Bauls of Bangladesh, based on Anwarul Karim's book; and translations by Brother James of a few of Rabindranath Tagore's poems.

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Correspondence, 1918-1953; account books, 1913-1928 and 1934-1935; ribbons won at livestock shows, 1913-1937; list of births and deaths in the Donovan family, 1802-1877; autobiographical sketch of brother Leo, 1938; writings and lectures by Brother Leo; and clippings about Brother Leo.

Scope and Content Correspondence files of the founder, Brother Mathias Barrett, and financial records of the organization in its early years; correspondence files of the second Superior General Brother Camillus Harbinson, and records of council meetings and minutes, General Chapter papers, and information on individual houses during the years 1977-1986; correspondence files of the third Superior General Brother Justin Howson, and circulars and memos of the organization; General Chapter records; formation /...

Scope and Content Constitutions and statutes from the North American Province (1903-1986); rules from foreign provinces; CFP prayer books; statistical documents and directories; provincial newsletters; chronicles, commemoratives and necrologies collected and processed in the early 1990s under the supervision of Superior General Mark Gastel, CFP; newsletters and publications received from the provinces in Germany, Holland and Brazil; biographies of John Höver (Hoever) gathered during a translation project in...

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Collection includes course materials (syllabi, readings, notes, course packets); journal article and chapter reprints; grant application materials; scattered correspondence and reference letters; a letter box of travel brochures, transit maps, and booking confirmations; and miscellaneous published materials including newspapers, periodicals, press catalogs, and a phone directory.

Scope and Contents Six posters demonstrating at-home workout techniques for men and women using everyday objects. Each poster is titled “Building Physical Power, The Science of Acquiring Strength Through Spinal Development.” The posters were published by the United Schools of Physical Culture, Executive Offices: 915 Flatiron Building, New York. Each poster features a model demonstrating poses instructed by Bernar McFadden. Each poster is copyrighted 1909 by E. R. Du Mont. This collection currently only...

Scope and Contents 1 album; 71 photographs accompanied by 16 pages of handwritten text in German. Album includes photographs of Bund Deutscher Mädel (German League Girls) during their hiking trip to Danzig (Gdansk, Poland) and the Baltic Sea from Friday, August 16th to Tuesday, September 3rd, 1940. The photographs are arranged in chronological order. The group went mostly by foot, train, and by steam ship on Vistula river from a camp site in a small village Kolodziejewo near the town of Pakosch (Pakosc,...

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Civil War pension documents of private Mathew Burke (Company I 23rd Regiment of New York National Guard); a contract involving Annie J. Cunningham (1893) and an undertaker's bill for the funeral of Mary C. Cunningham (1906); and jubilee cards for Sister Mary Dominic (1913). These persons are likely forebears of Joseph P. Burke, Notre Dame class of 1925.

Scope and Content Papers documenting the history of the Christian Family Movement of which Bauer was a founder, dating chiefly 1940s-1990s; consisting of issues of CFM ACT, photocopies, minutes, meeting material, printed ephemera, and letters, including correspondence with Pat and Patty Crowley and others; also lecture notes, and newsletters (Christian Family Notes, 1948, and Christian Family Bulletin, 1949-1950) concerning Bauer's involvement in the founding and early activities of CFM; with CFM Inquiry...

Abstract Album amicorum maintained by Josephine Byerley (1835-1896) of South Bend, Indiana. Josephine was one of the daughters of Samuel Byerley (1796-1870), an English businessman who became an important early settler of South Bend and is credited as University of Notre Dame founder Father Edward Sorin’s first benefactor. The entries in the album span 1852-1857, during which time Josephine attended St. Mary's Academy, and consist of at least 45 pages of holograph poetry, remembrances, and original...

Scope and Content Research files related to Nuesse's interest in rural Wisconsin parishes (though much of the data here is not religious), including offprints raw data from his studies "The Relation of Financial Assessment to Status in a Rural Prish," published in the American Catholic Sociological Review, March 1948, "Membership Trends in a Rural Parish," published in Rural Sociology, XXIII (June 1957), and "Recent Catholic...

Scope and Content Ledger containing records dating from 1773 to 1798 with a few notes added in 1846 and 1863; mostly financial accounts with a few notations concerning more personal matters; and related material, 1963-1975, including photostats of the ledger, drafts and the final copy of an English translation by Evan Hart and Elizabeth Hart Bennett, notes for the translation, periodicals containing articles dealing with the fur trade, and background information on Jean Baptiste Cadot. In French...

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A collection consisting primarily of 29 Civil War manuscript letters written by Union private Charles C. Caley, during his service in Co. F, 105th Ohio Infantry.

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An 1850 overland diary recording an emigrant's passage from Dubuque, Iowa to the Salt Lake Cutoff.

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Records of Notre Dame's Office of Campus Ministry, including photographs and many audio and video recordings.

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These scrapbooks contain photographs of campus buildings, particularly dormitories and other campus landmarks. They also contain an aerial view of campus, ROTC cadet formation, Rev. John Francis O'Hara, and Rev. Hugh O'Donnell.