Hesburgh Libraries

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Microfilm of a rule book for the Oblates of Providence. The rule book, in French, followed by an English version, details obligations of the superior, oblates, and postulates, tasks to be done, Sunday and feast day observances, guidelines for the school and the children attending it, daily routine, dress, education for the sisters, and reformed constitution in French. The reel contains two copies of the book.

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Records of Joseph H. Burke, CSC, the Notre Dame liason with the US Government in charge of Military Training during the First World War (WWI, World War One). Consists almost entirely of correspondence with Washington and the Army about administrative matters and government property (primarily ordnance). The papers have been arranged several times, but it seems that at least some of the original order remains.

Scope and Contents The double-sided wooden board game features Knute Rockne’s Official Football Game and the Official Graham McNamee Radio Scoreboard for Football on one side, and the Official World Series Baseball Game and the Graham McNamee Radio Scoreboard for Baseball on the other side.The football game board features images and facsimile autographs of Knute Rockne and Graham McNamee. The baseball game board features two images of Graham McNamee with a radio microphone and features the text,...

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Research files, including gigabytes of digital data, drafts of writings, and files representing her teaching, professional contributions to medieval history, and service as a member of the history department at Notre Dame and as head of the Medieval Institute; with slides of medieval Spain and other photographs supporting her teaching and research.

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Collection of letters written to and from Ann Arbour Olyniec, a member of the first cohort of female undergraduate students to begin undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame in 1972. Letters document Olyniec’s experiences as an undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Austin, Saint Mary’s College, and The University of Notre Dame from 1970 to 1974.

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Oral history interviews conducted under the auspices of the University of Notre Dame Archives, including audio recordings and transcriptions of interviews on Catholic Action and Social Justice; the National Catholic Reporter; and Notre Dame faculty, staff, and students. Governed by agreements with the people interviewed, some of these are open for use and some closed or restricted.

Scope and Content Correspondence, journal, clippings, and manuscript drafts of books, speeches, articles, and essays, both published and unpublished, 1823-1876; including correspondence with the Comte de Montalembert, Louis Veuillot, Lord Acton, John Henry Cardinal Newman, George Bancroft, Salmon Chase, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Isaac Hecker, Henry David Thoreau, and Archbishops John Hughes, Francis Patrick Kenrick and Martin Spalding; manuscripts of essays by Albert Brisbane, Archbishop Francis P. Kenrick, George...

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Correspondence, notes, and copies of official documents concerning the genealogy of Orville T. Chamberlain, including a Chamberlain letter to James Edwards (25 October 1898) discussing Notre Dame's participation in the Civil War and a copy of the guide to the Chamberlain Family Papers in the Indiana Historical Society Library.

Scope and Content The records in this collection document some of the day-to-day details of the planning and construction of Notre Dame Stadium from 1929 to 1930. Although incomplete, the records offer details of a range of the decisions made as the plans for the Stadium were conceived and executed. The records reveal changes made during the construction phase, as well as decisions that were reached about various construction details. The collection does not contain the architectural blue prints or...

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Photocopy of Otto Bird's typewritten autobiograpical manuscript, "Seeking a Center", 1990.

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Published and unpublished music used by the parish choir of Our Lady of Sorrows before the Second Vatican Coucil; consisting of 417 items dating from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th century.

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Records of the Redemptoristine Nuns of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Monastery; consisting of member files, prioress files, correspondence files, ministry files, rule revision files, files on Redemptorist houses, writings, reports, financial records, photographs, and realia; with records of changes in contemplative monastic life after the Second Vatican Council.

Scope and Content Correspondence concerning OSV publications and copies of the publications themselves; OSV minutes and communications, 1968-1971; OSV circulation and financial records, 1950s-1971; minutes of OSV staff meetings, 1961-1967; correspondence and contracts with Teamsters Union and Typographical Union; appointment book, 1965; correspondence and transcripts of recipients of Archbishop Noll Scholarships, 1955-1971; records relating to OSV college grants, 1950s-1970s; reproduction of Catholic Telegram...

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Records kept by Fr Ramon Gaitan and Fr Juan Romero; consisting of bylaws, constitutions, press clippings, publications, directories, memoranda, letters, meeting material, papers from national congresses, recommendations, historical sketches, minutes, financial records, and interviews. Also audio recordings, slides and black-and-white photographic prints, publications by PADRES, and printed material collected by PADRES concerning Hispanic priests, bishops, sisters, and brothers.

Scope and Content Miscellaneous original and transcribed records of various Catholic parishes, orphanages, schools, and cemeteries in Illinois (4 churches and institutions), Indiana (7), Kentucky (more than 50), Michigan (5), Missouri (2), Pennsylvania (1), and Wisconsin (1). There are also records of one Jewish Synagogue (Temple Beth-El, South Bend, Indiana). Baptismal, confirmation, marriage, and death registers; gravestone inscriptions; membership lists; pew rent account books; censuses;...

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Anniversary books, pamphlets, dedications, financial statements, invitations, directories, bulletins, and newspaper clippings representing Catholic parishes throughout the United States, with more material for Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana than for other states; a few photographs, mainly from Indiana and Kentucky.

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Records of Partners for the Common Good, 1994-2000; financial files representing investments of religious orders in credit unions and local development funds: consisting of minutes and other meeting material, lists, financial documents, correspondence, chronologies, manuals, reports, legal documents, personnel files, and other papers; documenting activities of the Board of Advisors, Staff, Borrowing Partners, and Investing Partners.

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Photographs taken by Brother Pascal Tomaszewski, CSC, with scenes of Notre Dame football games, quadrangles, buildings, statues, and people.

Scope and Content Includes by-laws and minutes (1948) of the Catholic Action Club of the Sacred Heart School, Davenport, Iowa, (Fenelon was club secretary in the eighth grade); National Federation of Catholic College Students (NFCCS) Wisconsin chapter by-laws, 1954-1956, and NFCCS convention program 1956; a Scholastic article (January 1, 1975) on Fenelon; papers documenting the response of the Notre Dame community to the May 1970 American invasion of Cambodia and the student killings at Kent State University,...

Scope and Content Agenda, minutes, reports, conference material, correspondence, notes, newsletters, newspaper articles, and ephemera; documenting the formation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) and its development from its precursor days as the Conference of Major Religious Superiors and Women's Institutes (CMSW); also records of the establishment and early activity of LCWR's Western Region, Region XIV, and records of LCWR's interaction with CMSM (Conference of Major Superiors of...

Scope and Content Questionnaires on the rhythm method of birth control, and on responsible parenthood and love in marriage, with responses from those who answered them; reports, notes taken at meetings, correspondence and background papers, 1964-1967; articles on birth control, dating from the 1960s through the 1980s; a copy of the book Turning Pointby Robert McClory regarding the Commission; book reviews and Crowley correspondence concerning Turning...

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Exhibit material to be used in Mulrooney's proposed "Fighting Born Irish of America" campaign to raise money for the University of Notre Dame Field House Building Fund through the sale of buttons. Consists of proposal, photo, and promotion board used by Mulrooney.

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Chiefly mimeographed copies of letters, 1923-1939, involving Monsignor John A. Ryan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Kennedy, Josephus Daniels, H.L. Mencken, and others; concerning such topics as Hitler, Father Coughlin, pacifism, anti-semitism, profit sharing, and religious tolerance; with a few autograph letters from Callahan to Frederick Kenkel of the Catholic Central Verein; and a paper by William E. Ellis, "Patrick Henry Callahan: A Kentucky Democrat in National Politics," 1976.

Scope and Content Papers of Patrick Horsbrugh representing his whole life and career, consisting of extensive office files, environics files, and research files, correspondence, diaries, architectural drawings, artwork such as paintings and drawings, and his Italian thesis; consisting of files labelled PH (Patrick Horsbrugh): a chronological series representing his projects; Churchill Memorial files; correspondence files; environics files; files on individuals and locations associated with environics; diaries...

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Correspondence concerning work for The Ave Maria, including letters to editor, Eugene P. Burke, CSC, letters from his readers expressing admiration for his writings, and correspondence from his first years as editor; with copies of some of his poems, two manuscript notebooks of poetry, a book of sermons, and an essay on priests and literary sensibility.

ms 67-88

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Manuscripts and notes, on paper and computer disks, presenting the teaching of recent popes and bishops on labor-management issues, including Popes John XXIII, Paul VI, and John Paul II ; commentaries on and reactions to Catholic social teaching on labor-management issues as reported in Catholic periodicals; and notes on prominent Catholic individuals and organizations involved with organized labor.

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Correspondence with Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, Alexis Coquillard, trader in South Bend, Edward Sorin, CSC, president of the University of Notre Dame, and others, pertaining mostly to business affairs, the second Indian removal from the area in 1840, and Marantette's claims arising from it; and Marentette's account book, 1838-1840.

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Letters and citizenship, property, financial, pension, and estate documents of an Irish immigrant and his wife, Margaret O'Dea, who settled in South Bend, Indiana.

Scope and Content Clippings documenting Bussard's development of the Leaflet Missal (1929-1930), his reports from Europe (1947), and his participation in the Holy Year Press Flight (1950); correspondence, memoranda, reports, budgets, graphs, affadavits, depositions, pleadings, subpoenas, and clippings related to his suit against St. Thomas College and Catholic Digest, initiated in 1969 when the college, to which Bussard had given his stock in the magazine, removed him from his job as publisher; including...

Scope and Content Includes correspondence; manuscripts and reprints of his articles; drafts, research notes, and copies of three of his books: Profile of a Precinct Committeeman (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1968), The Indiana Third (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1970), and The Irish Judiciary (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Dame Press, 1971); transcripts of his lectures and speeches; grade books and course outlines; correspondence, reports, and minutes relating to his...