Hesburgh Libraries

Scope and Content Personal files, 1950s-2000s; sports files, bulk 1970s- 1990s; Ara Parseghian column ghostwriting files, 1960s and 1980s; Notre Dame football files, bulk 1950s-1970s; newspaper clippings of Doyle articles, March-April 1962, April 1967, and August-November 1971; football game play-by-play notes, 1957-1980; reporter's notebooks, ca. 2000s; loose manuscripts, including several book-length manuscripts by other authors; many unfiled papers and some unlabeled folders and envelopes; and photographs...

Scope and Contents The Joe Garagiola Jr. Papers consist of materials related to a 1971 WSND student radio documentary marking the 40th anniversary of the death of Knute Rockne. WSND Sports Director Art Martin and Assistant WSND Sports Director Joe Garagiola Jr. produced the Rockne documentary that aired in March of 1971. The collection contains original correspondence between Martin/Garagiola and players and other people who had known Rockne before his death in 1931. The collection also contains material...

Scope and Content Manuscripts of books, plays, and articles; correspondence, notes, reprints, clippings, news releases, syndicated columns, artifacts, photographs, tape recordings, and subject files; and Catholic pamphlets and books by O'Brien and others; concerning priestly celibacy, birth control, the Masons, converts, anti- Catholicism, evolution, education, and the Crusade for Souls. Most of Father O'Brien's papers and printed material (over 60 linear feet) came to the archives as part of the...

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Scrapbook concerning American Catholicism containing many articles from Boston-area newspapers.

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Travel diary (1869-1870); letters received as editor of the Notre Dame Scholastic (1878-1894); letters received from his relatives (1864-1892); letters of obedience for his appointments at Notre Dame and Watertown; manuscripts of essays and poems, some by O'Connell, collected for the Scholastic; and miscellaneous clippings.

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Notes and printed material of John A. Poirier, Notre Dame Professor of physics since 1961; including notes and reports dealing with quantum mechanics, nuclear theory, and electronic circuits, photocopied journal articles, drafts of writings, and a dissertation on threshold enhancement by James J. Phelan.

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Correspondence, 1925-1941; gradebooks, 1925-1942, 1944; employee contracts, 1922-1940; and a photograph.

Scope and Content Correspondence, memorabilia, drafts, clippings, mimeographed notes and handouts; notebooks of John Oesterle; a Polish translation of one of his books, Etyka ; files from courses he taught; correspondence between the Oesterles and Charles de Koninck; personal files of Jean Oesterle representing among other things her work as managing editor of The New Scholasticism ; with drafts of her translation of St. Thomas Aquinas' ...

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Documentation of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the South Bend area, 1972-1980s; consisting of correspondence, mimeographed and ditto material, and printed ephemera on the People of Praise and Charismatics; also some material on cults, and an anthropological study of True House by Fr. Ken McGuire, CSP: "People, Prayer and Promise" (Ph.D Dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1976).

Scope and Content Manuscripts of works by Zahm, including his South American trilogy and Women in Science; publications by Zahm; correspondence, bills, and receipts concerning purchases of Italian books and art, 1901-1906; personal correspondence, lectures, drafts of essays, pamphlets, postcards, a bibliography on women, articles on Zahm published after his death; tintypes and albumen and silver gelatin photographs, with images of South America, including pictures of Zahm and Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he...

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Correspondence, minutes, and clippings, 1958-1978, of the Notre Dame Library Council, collected by John Bennet Shaw, who was board chairman from 1963 to 1978. The purpose of the Library Council was "to create a group of book collectors and book lovers who will work for Notre Dame's library by contributing rare and expensive books."

Scope and Contents This collection documents John C. Bermingham's time a student at the University of Notre Dame from 1938-1942. Of particular note are the materials related to Bermingham's job as the Senior Manager of the Notre Dame varsity football team during the 1941 season. The records relate to Bermingham's responsibilities as Manager, including organizing the traveling party for away games, managing sideline passes for home games, and other activities. The collection contains photographs, documents,...

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Letters received by Cappon, from his brother and others in Belgium, and letters regarding his parish, personal finances, and diocesan questions such as marriage dispensations from bishop; some correspondence unconnected to Cappon; and sermons, notes, certificates, and church documents. Correspondents include Rev. John De Neve, Bishop Peter Paul Lefevre of Detroit, and Bishop Caspar H. Borgess of Detroit.

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Letter book with entries dating from 13 May 1848 to 22 April 1850, including letters to Robert Walsh (U.S. Consul, Paris), John Jay, Commodore W.C. Bolton, Daniel J. Carroll, General Jackson Morton, William Carroll, and James Richard; and photographs. Most of the letters have to do with patents, settlement of estates, payment of bills, and the circumstances of the Brent family after the death of John Carroll Brent's father.

Scope and Content Correspondence and subject files; copies of published articles and columns; drafts of Cogley's memoirs (A Canterbury Tale); bound volumes of Today (1947-1950) and the Chicago Catholic Worker (1938-1941); clippings of his reports on the Second Vatican Council for Religious News Service (1964) and of his columns for the diocesan press (1967-1968); correspondence and clippings relating to his writing for the New York Times (1964-1975); an unpublished manuscript of a collection of his writing...

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Correspondence dealing mostly with Shea's writing and his financial difficulties; manuscripts of the first three volumes of his History of the Catholic Church in the United States; and a manuscript of his American Martyrology: lives of Catholic missionaries killed on the Indian missions in Canada and the United States from the earliest times.

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Scope and Content Primarily correspondence; correspondents include Henry Hussman, John B. Quinn, Boniface Rauch, OSB, and Theodore Vose; some of the correspondence involves Ursuline Sisters, School Sisters of Notre Dame, and the Missouri State Historical Society. Also manuscripts of several historical articles, a catalog of Rothensteiner's personal library and of the Rothensteiner collection at Mundelein College; and personal papers of William Faerber (1841- 1905). The Notre Dame University...

Scope and Content Pamphlets, reprints of articles, newspaper clippings, bibliographies, and unpublished papers relating to social issues such as labor unions, communism, economics, and civil rights, as well as a wide range of topics in moral theology (1935-1977); notes and syllabi for courses Cronin taught at St. Mary's Seminary (1967-ca.1974); copies of Cronin's unpublished report "The Problem of American Communism in 1945" (1945) completed for the National Catholic Welfare Conference; correspondence and...

Scope and Content Schemata, quaestiones, modi, relationes, animadversiones, texti emendati, texti recogniti, votae, normae, disquisitii, allocutiones, observations, reports, liturgies, correspondence, circular letters, newsletters, notes, lists, agenda, minutes, and other documents, most of them in Latin, from the Second Vatican Council (1962- 1965), Roman synods (1967-1985), consistories of cardinals (1969-1985), and meetings of Vatican congregations, secretariats, and commissions (1962-1987); Records...

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Legal documents including his will; a notebook of arithmetic and poetry; and manuscripts of articles on the history of astronomy. Two volumes contain his financial accounts dating from his years as a merchant; part of one volume filed with early Notre Dame financial books (ULDG), contains further financial records.

Scope and Content Correspondence relating to Noll's personal affairs, 1920-1955, the construction of the national shrine, 1936, and his work with the National Legion of Decency, 1930s, the National Organization for Decent Literature, 1930s-1950s, Our Sunday Visitor, 1925-1955, and the National Catholic Welfare Conference, 1948-1953; manuscripts of Catholic radio broadcasts, 1940s-1950s, articles for Our Sunday Visitor, and articles by Noll; personal papers such as sermon notes and occasional papers relating...

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1908-1960; sermons, lectures and editorials by O'Hara; clippings about him; notes taken by him; class records, 1917-1931; excerpts from the diary of his sister Elizabeth O'Hara, 1940-1951; correspondence, press releases, and clippings concerning his role as military delegate of the armed forces of the United States, 1940-1945; photographs, pamphlets, and medals. Also microfilm of clippings concerning Theodore Roosevelt's trip to South America with John A. Zahm,...

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Correspondence, clippings, articles collected by Sheehan, and speeches given by Sheehan.

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Correspondence, occasionally with drawings included; clippings, including a biographical article and picture of Striebel; photographs and sketches; and slides designed to accompany silent movies; with mention of J.P. McEvoy.

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Nineteen letters (thirteen original and six photostats) of John Henry Cardinal Newman; including two letters from Newman to Monsignor James Nugent, 1875 and 1890, a letter from Newman to the rector of the Catholic University of Ireland, and two letters to Dr. Russell, 1862 and 1874.

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Correspondence and related papers of John Ireland; scrapbooks; and supplementary papers including Denis O'Connell letters. For a more detailed description, see Guide to a Microfilm Edition of The John Ireland Papers by Scott Jessee (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1984).

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Photographs of his sculpture, including statues of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Jerome, St. Joan of Arc, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Augustine, St. Patrick, and John Henry Cardinal Newman; photographs of Notre Dame sculptors John J. Bednar, C.S.C., and Eugene Kormendi; and photographs of studio scenes.

Scope and Content Correspondence; manuscripts of Berkery's memoirs of the Catholic Action movement; newsletters; clippings, including articles by and about Joseph Cardinal Cardijn; photocopies and mimeographed material including pieces by Pat Keegan and Paul McGuire. With the exception of one folder concerning St. Therese of Lisieux, the papers all pertain to the Young Christian Workers, Young Christian Students, Christian Family Movement, and other Catholic Action organizations. Also books,...

Scope and Content Home movies taken by John J. Brennan of activities in the parishes he served in the Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, and footage of vacation trips he took; a diary of a cross country trip he took in 1923; printed including a program from his silver jubilee and a testimonal dinner, and a short history of St. Philip Neri parish (Northport, NY). Also copy prints (inkjet prints) of photos of John J. Brennan and other priests from the parishes he served, and a CD-ROM containing digital images of...

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Manuscript book containing Carroll's sermons, 1884-1888, a list of Christmas offerings for St. Thomas Church, and the church financial statement, 1887.