Hesburgh Libraries

Abstract Peter Thomas King (ND Law ‘68) is an American former politician and novelist. A member of the Republican Party, he represented New York's 3rd and then 2nd district in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 until his retirement in 2021. This collection contains material in various formats documenting King’s 28 years of service in the U.S. Congress. Included are extensive files on his election campaigns, federal budget appropriations, and committee and legislation work. The...

Scope and Content Manuscript of Klaus Lanzinger's diary, Amerika - Europa: Ein transatlantisches Tagebuch 1961-1989 (2002); manuscript of the English translation of the diary, America - Europe: A Transatlantic Diary 1961-1989; a copy of the book based on the English translation; related digital files; and a file on the administrative history of the beginning of Notre Dame's foreign studies program (Sophomore Year Abroad) in Innsbruck, Austria. ...

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Photographs from the movie "Knute Rockne, All American" -- four large photographic prints mounted on heavy board.

Scope and Content Rockne's chemistry workbook and gradebook, 1917-1918; his annotated copy of a book he wrote and printed for the benefit of the Notre Dame football team, Football Notes ; printouts from ancestry.com of records of Knute Rockne in the 1910 and 1920 US Census and in various passenger lists, 1920s; papers regarding Rockne family legal matters, 1959-1981; mimeographed transcript of Rockne Speech to the Western Company, Chicago, 1929; a typewritten manuscript of a story...

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Material concerning the 1924 riot in South Bend, Indiana, between Notre Dame students and the Ku Klux Klan specifically; and the Ku Klux Klan and Notre Dame, in Indiana and in the USA more generally.

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Photographs of Notre Dame sports teams and special events.

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Accounts, receipts, financial papers, advertisements, notes and correspondence; with some records of the Vincennes Draw Bridge Company, 1870-1873, for which Marcel D. La Croix served as treasurer.

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Program files, constitutions, officers' files, and financial files.

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Miscellaneous personal and professional files: correspondence, research notes, mailings, magazines, catalogues, mimeographed material, family papers; deal mainly with Stauder's Electrical Engineering teaching, formation of a Notre Dame Chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and IEEE activities, and Stauder's research.

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Business correspondence, advertising circulars, clippings, and two copies of a "Catalogue of the Library of the Late Lawrence Kehoe, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1891."

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Printed material from a wide variety of Catholic lay societies, including the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Knights of America, Catholic Central-Verein, Saint Joseph's Staats-Verband (State League) of Indiana, the German Saint Vincent Orphan Society, the Western Catholic Union, the Knights of Saint John, the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, the Legion of Mary, the Kolping Society, the National Catholic Alumni Federation, and various other lay organizations and sodalities.

Scope and Content Records, 1956-[ongoing], of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), including correspondence (1958-1983); meeting material from the national board and executive committee (1962-1979); papers from the group's national assembly (1961-1983); extensive subject files (1957-1984); correspondence and minutes (1964-1979) relating to joint committees of LCWR and the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the United States Catholic...

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Records of the Legends of Notre Dame restaurant, including photographs and audio-visual material.

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Correspondence with members of his family and such Notre Dame personalities as Vincent Fagan and Richard Sullivan; and manuscripts and handwritten notes for short stories and poems, a collection of his stories Men in the Field, and an unpublished novel, Gold and Fiddles.

Scope and Content Correspondence with Elizabeth Brownson, Etienne Gilson, Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, Ann Harrigan Makletzoff, Jacques Maritain, Eugene McCarthy, John F. O'Hara, CSC, Josef Pieper, Paul Simon, and Yves Simon; manuscripts of several books including The Catholic Quaker Boy, Concerning Mary Ann, Irish Portraits and Other Poems, Working Together for Freedom, Ourselves, Inc., Holding up the Hills, and his autobiography; notebooks kept during the writing of several books on the history of...

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Articles by Sommer and papers on forensics and debating at Notre Dame.

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Papers (1911-1974) including correspondence, telegrams, cards, letters of recommendation, ticket stubs, professional sports contracts, poems, and other documents; printed material (1914-1937) including his high school yearbooks, a college magazine, the Shreveport Social Directory, and news clippings; and photographs (1905-1958) including portraits of Bahan and of his sports teams, his classmates, and his family.

Scope and Content Microfilm contains correspondence of many Austrians who were active in the American mission field, including St. John Neumann, Bishop of Philadelphia; Frederic Baraga, Bishop of Marquette; Father Caspar Rehrl, founder of the Sisters of St. Agnes; Father Joseph Salzmann, founder of St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee; Father Francis X. Pierz, missionary, especially in Minnesota; Father John Stephen Raffeiner of New York. Other correspondents include Vincentius Eduard Milde,...

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Pocket diary of Gruber, dating from his enlistment at Delphi, Indiana, 3 August 1861, to his discharge, 11 July 1862.

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Three John Paul Jones letters to Thomas Jefferson (that have been published in the Jefferson Papers); one Benjamin Franklin letter to John Langdon (25 October 1788) concerning abolition; and thirty-two letters (1826-1858) of Jonathan Knight to Nathan, Ann, and Abel Whealdon of Harrison and Morgan Counties, Ohio. There are also two Carey sketches among these papers, one of Knight, the other of a friend of Will S. Porter (O. Henry).

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Scrapbooks, books, a photograph, and memorabilia dating from the 1930s; a few letters, essays, and other material from the 1950s.

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Agenda, albums, annual reports, budgets, bylaws, bulletins, clippings, constitutions, correspondence, minutes, newsletters, notebooks, pamphlets, photographs, press releases, proceedings, proposals, publications, reports, schedules, speeches, studies, and surveys, most of them documenting O'Connor's involvement in WUCWO, with some material concerning her work as an educator, a scholar, and a representative of the National Council of Catholic Women.

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Correspondence, 1959-1974; Owens' writings, including a manuscript of "Maryland Emigration to Kentucky, 1785-1812," 1968; clippings and reviews of Owens' works, 1960s-1970s; research material and printed matter on the origins and history of the Sisters of Loretto; and a tape of an interview of Sister Owens by Roy J. McCarthy on KMOX radio, St. Louis, 1964 concerning her booklet "The St. Louis Hospital, 1828," 1964.

Scope and Content Papers of Linda Walbridge, a Catholic anthropologist, reflecting her research interests in Christian communities in Muslim countries, especially Pakistan, and in Muslim communities in the United States; with material on the life and death of Bishop John Joseph, the first Punjabi Catholic bishop in Pakistan; including computer files of Linda Walbridge, with images from her research in Pakistan, and email messages to her husband John Walbridge; video tapes of Mosque services in the United...

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Copies of reminiscences by and of Blayney. Includes some information on the Blayney family.

Scope and Content Correspondence, photographs, slides, negatives, films, postcards, holy cards, financial records, articles, pamphlets, record albums, and lectures and editorials by Maurice Lavanoux. Correspondents include Jacques Maritain, Archbishop Robert Lucey, Monsignor Reynold Hillenbrand, Francis Cardinal Spellman, Bishop Edwin V. O'Hara, Marc Chagall, Eleanor Roosevelt, Ivan Mestrovic, Siegfried Guggenheim, Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, Francis W. Kervick, Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, Harvey Cox...

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Manuscript of his book Modern Universalism and its Reputation (1876) in four bound volumes.

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Books, pamphlets, periodicals, printed ephemera, and other publications having to do with the history of localities throughout the United States, but with more material on Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky than on other places.

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Photocopy of a manuscript of a chapter from The Fighting Spirit : a Championship Season at Notre Dame by Lou Holtz with John Heisler. (New York: Pocket Books, c1989) concerning the football team's visit to the Reagan White House 18 January 1989.

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Correspondence, journals, manuscripts, notes, printed articles, newspapers and other periodicals; concerning Blanqui's life, philosophy, and revolutionary activities, including his account of the events of 1848.

In French.