Hesburgh Libraries

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Bound typewritten manuscript of Chesterton's autobiography, with autograph corrections.

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Printed contact sheets of the glass plate negative collection (GGPN) regarding 19th century life at the University of Notre Dame. Also included in subject matter are scientific images and some images probably taken for the 1893 Columbian Exposition.

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Glass plate negative collection regarding 19th century life at the University of Notre Dame. Also included in subject matter are scientific images and some images probably taken for the 1893 Columbian Exposition.

Due to the fragility of the negatives, their use is restricted to the contact prints made in GGPP.

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Records of Notre Dame's Glee Club, including substantial collections of videos, audio recordings, and photographs.

Scope and Contents Records of Notre Dame's Golden Dome Productions, including a large collection of video recordings, most of which have to do with Today's Life Choices, a series of thirty-minute programs, produced by the University of Notre Dame, that examine various attitudes and beliefs relating to contemporary social issues. The programs, produced on location throughout the United States and overseas, capture personal stories and feature leading experts who present their own...

Scope and Content Correspondence, memoranda, clippings, reports, and other papers; photocopies, brochures, printed ephemera, pamphlets, books, and other printed material; photographs, audio-visual material, and digital data; representing the career of Gordon Charles Zahn, especially his life-long efforts to promote peace, and his work in making known the life and martyrdom of Franz Jaegerstaetter. Papers include documentation of academic career, his writings, his life at Camp Simon as a...

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Photocopies of clippings from British newspapers and journals, most of them by or about Hilaire Belloc, with a few about G.K. Chesterton, Lytton Strachey, and H.G. Wells, and a few by Arnold Bennett, J.B. Priestley, Alice Meynell, and other writers of their time; concerning Catholicism, fundamentalism, and English history and historiography; with reviews of Belloc's books, accounts of his lectures, and descriptions of his controversies.

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Minutes, 1897-1915; correspondence, 1897-1931; clippings, 1897-1915; and a medal and certificate from a GAR reunion held in 1900; with material on Peter Paul Cooney, William Corby, and James A. McLain.

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Notre Dame athletic memorabilia, nearly all concerning football, including scrapbook material, letters, playbooks, tickets, a scouting report, films, a record album, photographs, a plaque, and football programs.

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Filmstrips with associated audio cassette tapes and scripts, including "Every Heart Beats True," concerning conscientious objection and Catholic teaching on military service (1980), "Weapons in Space" (1984), "Whose Budget Is It Anyway?", and "Hostage at Hell's Bottom: the Economy and the Pentagon"; VHS video tapes, including "A Step Away from War" (1986) and "Citizen Ambassador Program" (1993); and many slides concerning peace and militarism.

Scope and Content Black and white photographs of the Notre Dame campus buildings and landscape; faculty, students and their clubs, and administrators; sporting events such as baseball, football, and basketball games, along with portraits of the teams and coaches; scenes from dorms, classrooms, laboratories, and dining halls; the university farms; religious ceremonies; commencements and dedications; and other campus activities. These photographs were primarily the work of amateurs, including students working...

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Mostly clippings and scrapbooks concerning Peter A. Gushurst, pioneer businessman in Lead, South Dakota, his wife Josphine Gushurst, and their son Fred Gushurst, football star at the University of Notre Dame, 1912-1914, and businessman in Denver, Colorado.

Scope and Content Four reels of 16 mm film dating from the 1930s made by Harold D. Crotty, showing a Christmas tree, a woman pushing a toddler on a tricycle, a train ride, a crash site, a parade, a child with toys, a football team coming out into a stadium, football game scenes, a marching band, stadium stands; the Brown Derby restaurant, Los Angeles and southern California, automobiles driving and parked in the street, a parade featuring floats with a Trojan horse and a Viking long ship, Miss All American, a...

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Offprints of articles on genetics or other biological topics; files supporting teaching and research; many certificates and awards; floppy disks and CD-R disks containing data representing the works of Prof. Bender; photographs, many of them used in teaching; and Objects related to his teaching, research interests, and personal life.

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Notre Dame photographs taken by Heather Gollatz Dukeman starting circa 1998.

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Correspondence, 1912-1913 and 1922-1938; drafts of publications, articles and notes used in his publications; reviews of his writings; his subject files on such topics as evolution, the Bible, and New Testament social teachings; and printed matter such as Hand der Neutestamentlichen Textkritik (1923).

In English, Greek, and German.

Scope and Content An inventory of material collected by Sister Helen Angela for her biography of Ireland, John of St. Paul: The Making of Archbishop Ireland; correspondence concerning the biography, 1953-1961; and clippings and a manuscript by Sister Angela concerning Ireland's work as a Civil War chaplain. Also microfilm containing notes and transcripts of letters in two different hands and clippings that span the years 1892-1905; concerning Catholic schools in America, the Spanish-American...

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Correspondence, 1952-1957; notes taken by Homan, 1955; and manuscripts of her book Men in Religion, 1956.

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Papers include a book-length manuscript, The Sons of Partridge; notes, maps and bibliographical material used by Cope in her research; and correspondence concerning her work, 1958-1979.

Scope and Content Papers concerning attempts to have the United States government ratify a leasing agreement for oil concessions near Brant, New York, made between Seneca Nation of Indians on Allegany and Oil Spring Reservations in the State of New York and Henry A. Walter as the representative of the Alden Aurora Gas Company and later the Shore Gas Company, both of Buffalo (the lease was ratified by the House of Representatives but never by the Senate); with copies of the lease, bills proposed, and...

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Correspondence (1949-1988) between Henry C. Wurzer and others, much of it having to do with the beginnings of the Morris Inn, with correspondents including Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, Edmund P. Joyce, CSC, John J. Cavanaugh, CSC, John J. Burke, CSC, and E.M. Morris; a Morris Inn file; a copy of "Notre Dame Inn: comments on Survey of Horwath & Horwath" (January 1950), architectural drawings, clippings, ephemera, and photographs.

Scope and Content Photocopies of letters sent to Hinsenkamp from Syracuse University and Rutgers offering scholarships; from Knute Rockne offering advice and encouragement; from Rupert F. Mills concerning Hinsenkamp's problem with rheumatism in 1928; from John F. Cardinal O'Hara, CSC; from Frank Leahy; from J. Birney Crum, his high school coach; and from others; with a few letters written by Hinsenkamp and a few documents concerning his career at Notre Dame and his continuing interest in the university as an...

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Correspondence, material on the American Catholic Congress of Baltimore (1889), and miscellaneous material including one scrapbook of clippings.

Calendared

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Correspondence, notebooks, class record books, passport and immunization record.

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O'Connor, an Undersecretary of State during James G. Blaine's tenure as Secretary of State in 1882, writes in defense of Blaine's handling of the office and advances Blaine as an ideal 1888 Republican presidential nominee.

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Account books of a St. Louis newspaper publishing company showing monthly financial accounts with occasional months not included.

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Forty-page diary of a visit to missions among blacks in the United States, 1871-1872.

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Notes taken during lectures by Dan Morris, Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson, and Gerald Bernard Phelan, 1934- 1939; a few letters received in 1948; and manuscripts of essays by Johnston.

Scope and Content Primarily letters written by siblings Frances Hewitt, Muriel Hewitt, Robert Hayes Hewitt, Father Thomas Edward Hewitt, and William Henry Hewitt to their parents Harry and Agnes Hewitt of Chicago, Illinois, 1927-1969, with some letters between the sibling and a few from individuals outside the family, 1934-1973. Many of these letters are transcribed and included in Patricia A. MacKenzie's "Letters to 814" (Richmond, Virginia, 1997), which is also included in the collection. Also related...

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South Bend Catholic Central High School yearbook "The Trail" 1938-1942; South Bend Catholic High School Yearbook "Victorian" 1940-1943; and a brief history of South Bend Catholic High School in Polish titled "Wyzsza Szkola Polska" (probably 1930s). Also yearbooks from Catholic Central High School, Monroe, Michigan, 1962, and Holy Cross High School, River Grove, Illinois, 1965; and a directory of the alumni and school of the Notre Dame High School for Boys, Niles, Illinois, 1990.