Hesburgh Libraries

Scope and Contents One board game for two players designed to simulate the annual Yale vs. Harvard football game. The box cover depicts about 12 players in a scrum on a football field. Players wear either blue for Yale or red for Harvard, and the cover features Harvard and Yale pennants on the top left and the top right of the box. The box also features a referee watching the action, a grandstand filled with fans, and a single goalpost.The cardboard game board depicts a football field with cheering...

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Printed material concerning the Theatre Historical Society of America.

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Files representing courses taught by Ivanus; mimeographed circulars and reports concerning his department, Notre Dame's library, and its international studies programs; with a small quantity of correspondence and handwritten material.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1960s-1980s; diary of Crovello, 1966; notes and papers from graduate school, 1960s; class material such as handouts, lecture notes, tests, and syllabi; subject files of Crovello including USSR trips and Indiana vegetation research; clippings about Crovello; biology department correspondence, minutes, and reports, 1975-1982; and biology department photographs. Only the PERSONAL/STUDENT MATERIAL, CORRESPONDENCE FILES, and BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT FILES have any order below the series...

Scope and Content Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, agenda, dockets, minutes, handbooks, proposals, plans, reports, financial papers, lists, circulars, newsletters, bulletins, press releases, offprints, contracts, bylaws, and material distributed at meetings of boards of directors, committees, and commissions on which Hesburgh served; including the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1958-1973), National Science Board (1954-1966), Rockefeller Foundation (1962-1982), International Atomic Energy Agency...

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The two-volume manuscript journal of the Boston littérateur and lawyer Theophilus Parsons (1797-1882), kept during his early professional years, 1819-1823.

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A manuscript diary kept during the Civil War by Theresa Milburn, a young woman living on a plantation in Avoyelles Parish in central Louisiana.

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Personal letters that Guilka, a teenage Notre Dame fan from Ashville, North Carolina, received from most of the members of the 1945-1946 Notre Dame football team in response to a letter of sympathy from her; also a scrapbook and memorabilia concerning Notre Dame football during the same years.

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Theses and dissertations collected by the University of Notre Dame Archives, many of them based on research in the University of Notre Dame Archives and donated by their authors.

Scope and Content Scrapbook (1956-1989) of Mrs. Elizabeth Wukawitz, friend of Tom Dooley, which she sent to Father Hesburgh; consisting of letters from Tom Dooley to Mrs. Wukawitz and from Mrs. Wukawitz to Tom Dooley, draft of pages from "The Night They Burned the Mountain" transcribed from dictaphone recordings with corrections by Tom Dooley; clippings, photocopies of news articles, envelopes and mimeographed material. Also correspondence concerning his Congressional Medal of Honor (1959-1979),...

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Personal photographs, including pictures of Fr. Kelly, his family, Holy Cross seminarians, other Holy Cross priests, the Notre Dame campus, and Holy Cross College in Washington, D.C.

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Correspondence, poems, sketches, paintings, printed ephemera, and other documents representing his work as an artist in various media, but especially as the creator of the stained glass windows in Old St. Patrick's Church, Chicago; also photographs of O'Shaughnessy and his stained glass windows and other works of art.

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Correspondence, 1916-1961; tax records, 1918-1948; speeches, sermons, Steiner's grades, quotations collected by Steiner, and photographs.

Scope and Content Two of Banchoff's notebooks from a Notre Dame class taught by R. Catesby Taliaferro in the 1950s; four folders representing Banchoff's efforts, together with others, to publish Taliaferro's course in Rational Mechanics; Notre Dame reunion folders 1975-2015; football correspondence; faculty correspondence; college quiz bowl; sabbatical 1994. Notre Dame class notes 1956-1960; Notre Dame math courses 1959-1960; some Berkeley class notes ca 1961-62. Notre Dame General Files 1990s-2000s; 1960...

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A short-entry Civil War manuscript diary of Confederate States soldier Thomas Benton Alexander, written as a member of the 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Regiment, Company B (3rd). Much of the content dates from the final year of the war, when Alexander was captured at Mobile Bay and imprisoned at Elmira, New York.

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Manuscript drafts of verse and songs.

Scope and Content Correspondence, letters, books, ledgers, and docket book of Thomas Ewing; correspondence of his wife Maria (Boyle) Ewing; letters and papers of Philemon B. Ewing, his sisters, his wife, Maria Rebecca (Gillespie) Ewing, and members of her family: her sister Eliza Maria Gillespie (i.e., Mother Angela), her brother, Neal Gillespie, her mother, Madeline Miers Phelan, and her stepfather, William Phelan. Also Phelan estate papers, diaries, sermons by Father Neal Gillespie, correspondence and...

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Transcript of a trial, Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Neva Miller Moss; correspondence with Russell P. Kehoe, who assisted in the prosecution of Mrs. Moss in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and with others; clippings concerning Moss's activities as an anti-Catholic lecturer; leaflets and newspapers concerning anti-Catholicism in the 1920s; and a scrapbook of clippings and correspondence from the Eucharistic Congress, 1926.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1925-1957; writings, speech notes, and speeches by Mahony, 1920s-1950; diary of Mahony, 1928; Mahony's subject files on such topics as child labor, Mexican immigration, the sugar beet industry and labor conditions of sugar beet workers, 1920s-1950s, and the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, 1920s; and photographs. The bulk of the material relates to Mahony's efforts on the part of Mexican migrant laborers, with some material on Mahony's early professional efforts....

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Four manuscript letters addressed to New York investor Thomas F. Mason, discussing the cotton trade conducted by northern merchants with Confederate held areas along the Mississippi River during the American Civil War.

Scope and Content Papers of Thomas F. O'Meara, O.P., consisting of correspondence, including Dominican correspondence and a letter (19 Feb. 1967) from Martin Heidegger concerning translation of a word in one of his essays, with an English translation of the letter and a cover letter by Father O'Meara; a copy of his dissertation; a bibliography and a complete file of his publications up to 2002, including his studies of St. Thomas Aquinas; some ephemeral material associated with his speeches; a set of...

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A family correspondence of 51 items whose principal authors are George Thomas and his wife, Minerva Everton Thomas, of Spencer County, Indiana. Most of the letters date from 1862-1863, during George Thomas's Civil War service as quartermaster of the 53rd Indiana Infantry.

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Fragments of sermons and manuscripts on angels, the pope, Martin Luther, and Biblical topics; fragments of financial papers; rhetoric instructions.

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Copies of letters, clippings, and other memorabilia concerning Brigadier General Thomas Francis Meagher, his family history, and Notre Dame's reception and possession of the Meagher sword and the Irish Brigade's flag; and four letters Meagher sent to Andrew O'Connell (1866-1867) with a document appointing O'Connell Justice of the Peace at Large for the Montana Territory. Also Meagher's U.S. Army regulation field officer's sword

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A manuscript orderly book of 1st Lt. Thomas J. Baird of the United States Army, kept during 1818-1822 while commanding detachments of artillery at stations in New York, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, and Virginia.

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A Civil War manuscript diary of Confederate States trooper Thomas J. Barb, written as a member of the 1st (Dobbin's) Arkansas Cavalry Regiment. Entries extend from 18 June to 11 September 1863 and include accounts of several key engagements in Arkansas, including the attack on Helena and the defense of Little Rock.

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Records documenting Thomas Bice-Allen's service on the writing committee for the first book of guidelines for the formation of permanent deacons in the United States (early 1970s), his participation in the first WOC conferences in 1975 and 1978, and his membership in Corpus and the Corpus Board of Directors; also VHS video tapes of segments of 60 Minutes, The Phil Donahue Show, and Geraldo, featuring married priests and their spouses, along with DVD copies of the tapes.

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Sermons and speeches collected or delivered by Brennan, 1906-1964; writings on philosophy collected by Brennan; correspondence, 1952-1971; photographs; and the program from the world premiere, held in South Bend, of the film "Knute Rockne: All American."

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Two scrapbooks compiled by Darby containing clippings and a few letters concerning the Labor School in New Rochelle.

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, minutes, talks, and photographs; papers generated by his work as a member of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the United States Catholic Conference and through his involvement in many social action groups, including Pax Christi USA and Bread for the World; with material on the Michigan Catholic Conference, the war in Vietnam, the Detroit Archdiocesan Synod of 1969, and the United States Bishops' Pastoral Letter on War and Peace, The Challenge of Peace: God's...