Hesburgh Libraries

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Letters (1870-1889) to Jenkins from Benedict Webb, editor of the Catholic Advocate; John Ireland, Bishop (later Archbishop) of St. Paul; Eliza Allen Starr, author; and John Lancaster Spalding, Bishop of Peoria; also letters (1895-1896) from Jenkins to his sister (?), Hetty, and manuscript drafts of travelogue sketches and notes on Kentucky history.

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Correspondence and manuscripts (CTLB, including agreements, contracts, drafts of a book and various articles, and other documents); printed material (PTLB, including football programs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera); photographs (GTLB); and a few objects (OTLB). Includes correspondence with Knute Rockne (1929-1931) and several Notre Dame related photos from 1921 and earlier.

Scope and Content A copy of the Donor's Curriculum Vitae 1963-2011 and bound volumes of his research papers: Turbulent Flow and Transition 1963-1964, Vacuum and Fluid Amplifier 1963-1964, Base Flow Nozzles 1 1965-1969, Base Flow Nozzles 2 1969-1976, Base Pressure 1966-1970, Numerical Fluid Dynamics I 1968-1973, Flow Visualization 1969-1995, Physiological Fluid Mechanics 1972-1981, Low Reynolds Number Airfoil Aerodynamics 1980-1993, and Aeroacoustic Research 1990-2006. Also a CD containing Proceedings of the...

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Photographs collected for research of his book The University of Notre Dame: A Portrait of Its History and Campus (University of Notre Dame Press: Notre Dame and London, 1975).

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A personal diary maintained by Confederate veteran Thomas Kemp Cartmell, mostly during the late war years and Reconstruction, 1864-1866. The entries were written at the Cartmell family estate, "Retirement," in Frederick County, Virginia.

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Correspondence, course-teacher evaluations, articles, press releases, reports from the dean of the law school, and book reviews by Shaffer, 1963-1980.

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Photocopies of juvenilia, 1931-1941, consisting of editorials, columns, reviews, articles, and poems that Merton wrote before he entered the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1941 and published in the Oakhamian, the Granta, the Columbia Jester, the Columbia Spectator, the Columbia Review, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Herald Tribune Book Review, the Catholic World, and the Catholic Poetry Society of America Bulletin; and copies of some of the books he wrote after he became a monk.

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Biographical and personal material; teaching notes; reference files; speeches, writings, and meetings files; and an extensive series of files representing his activity in organizations outside Notre Dame.

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Correspondence, appointment calendars, course material, My Notre Dame book manuscripts; collected printed material; a cassette audio tape from his Notre Dame Class Reunion; Posters, framed photographs, and a plaque.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1936-1969; writings such as manuscripts of his publications, lectures, research notes, and manuscripts of other scholars' works collected by McAvoy; correspondence and copies of historical documents collected by McAvoy during a research trip to Europe, 1960-1961; and personal records such as tax returns, calendars, notes, address books, obituaries, clippings and letters of condolence concerning McAvoy's death, 1930-1969. The ...

Abstract A collection including more than 2,500 pieces of correspondence to and from Thomas W. Cridler, mostly relating to his role as European Commissioner for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (the St. Louis World's Fair) held in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904. Some of Cridler's correspondence is with fair administrators and U.S. diplomatic figures; some is with representatives of European nations targeted for inclusion. Also in the collection are smaller accumulations of other types of fair-related...

Scope and Content Personal papers of Rev. Thomas Phelan, including papers documenting his involvement in the Catholic Art Association; documenting activities of the officers and committees of CAA and including its quarterly publication, Catholic Art Quarterly (later called Good Work); containing extensive correspondence with Graham Carey and some correspondence with Tom Barry, Ade Bethune, Richard Bonvillain, Edward (Ned) Catish, Delbert Lederle, Dunstan Pruden, Edgar Holloway, Nancy Carey, George Easter,...

Scope and Contents Collection contains materials documenting Mary Katherine Tillman’s scholarly and professional activities, including copies of journal articles, book reviews, and other publications; unpublished essays, lectures, and manuscripts; teaching materials; scattered correspondence; and recordings and supplementary materials for Tillman’s "Newman and the Thoughtful Believer" lectures for the Notre Dame Great Teachers Series. The collection also includes a list of important life events, a diary kept...

Scope and Content Records of Congressman Tim Roemer's district and congressional offices, 1990-2002. From the district office in South Bend, Indiana: closed case files, 1991-2002; files regarding requests, scheduling, protocol, special projects, grants, and service academies applicants; intern files; and files generated by individual staff members. From the congressional office in Washington, D.C., files belonging to members of Roemer's staff, including Maggie McDow, Mark Brown, Rusty Silverstein, Matt, Pete,...

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Papers of Timothy Unsworth, consisting of nine linear feet of manuscript material, chiefly drafts and copies of his writings with related correspondence, but also including his master's thesis and diploma; also five linear inches of high-school yearbooks and seven linear inches of video tapes of his television appearances.

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Four lesson books containing O'Sullivan's writings; a small quantity of correspondence; notes; and a large collection (5 linear inches) of clippings compromising to Protestants.

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Tintypes (early photographs).

Scope and Contents One board game for two players designed to simulate a boxing match. The metal board depicts a three-dimensional 8-inch by 8-inch boxing ring with ropes also made of metal. The game includes one metal and wood red spinning top and one metal and wood blue spinning top. Players spin the tops simultaneously, and the last top to fall wins the round. Players use wooden sticks inserted into peg holes to record the winner of each round. The game includes 12 red sticks and 8 blue...

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A collection of papers of Tom O'Flaherty including manuscript and typescript fiction and autobiography, and letters, all apparently written from 1933 to 1935.

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Correspondence, notes and theses from the collection of Tomás de Bhaldraithe, Irish scholar and lexicographer.

Scope and Contents One board game for any even number of players designed to simulate football game play. The board is printed in green yellow, red, and black, and marked to resemble a football field. Players spin a dial marked with numbers from 1-12. Tables on the game board indicate gains or losses correlating with each spin result. A two-sided football game piece (lost from this set) is used to track movement up and down the field. The game was played in four quarters and with points (for touchdowns, place...

Scope and Contents British-made patriotic manual dexterity marble maze board game simulating trench warfare on the western front in World War One. The object of the game is to maneuver a small metal ball around a recessed playing board and avoid holes distributed around the course. Players win the game by navigating the ball around the course and into the goal which is guarded by a larger hole. Most of the holes on the course are accompanied by caricatures of German military commanders: “Little Willie”...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of publications and printings created by The Closet Press at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The Trinity Closet Press was a hand press run by members of the Library's Department of Early Printed Books. It was founded in 1973 by Mary M. Pollard as a teaching tool to give students and staff first-hand experience of book production methods in the hand-press period. The Press was housed in the basement of the Printing House at Trinity College and ceased operations in...

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Correspondence, minutes, reports, and legal and financial records relating to the community's property. Principal correspondents include True House leaders Robert Colson and Jim Byrne. Also 85 tape recordings of lectures on the charismatic renewal.

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Three volumes of business records, mostly in day book form, of the Great Barrington, Massachusetts general merchant Truman Wheeler. The records range in date from 1764 to 1813, with an emphasis on the years prior to the Revolution.

Scope and Contents 100 chromolithographed stereoscopic cards, in original box. Subjects include 82 hunting, fishing, hiking and camping scenes from locations across North America, as well as 18 scenes of Native American camp life, including images of Ojibwa, Siksika, and Lakota people. Many of the images document scenes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, and the Pacific Northwest. Cards bear extended descriptions on the reverse.The cards are numbered 401 to 500, with copyright dates...

Scope and Contents One incomplete set of games originally issued as the ‘Twentieth Century Fun Box,’ along with unrelated game pieces and magic trick props. Games present and issued with the original ‘Fun Box’ set are: ‘Putting on the Lid’ (1 game board, 17 discs), ‘Amrest’ (1 game board), and ‘Naval Battle’ (1 game board). The ‘Fun Box’ was originally manufactured by Geo. B. Doan & Co., Chicago, and copyrighted in 1905. The ‘Twentieth Century Fun Box’ is incomplete per description on box lid....

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Office files; books published by Twenty-third Publications; Braille and large-print editions of some Twenty-third Publications made by the Xavier Society for the Blind; filmstrips with audio tapes, and related printed material; VHS videos, audio cassette tapes, CDs, DVDs, and one film.