Hesburgh Libraries

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Records of Notre Dame's Vice President for Public Affairs and Communications, including a large collection of video recordings, with some audio recordings, digital data, and photographs.

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Records of Notre Dame's Vice President for Public Relations and Development / University Relations, including audio-visual material and photographs.

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Records of Notre Dame's Vice-President for Student Affairs, including videos and floor plans.

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Records of Notre Dame's Vice-President of Business Affairs, including photographs and objects.

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Records of Walsh Hall, including some printed material; photographs of the 1971/72 (last) Walsh Hall men; photographs of 2005 and 2009 Walsh Hall First Year Students and of a few unidentified alumnae; and photos of Walsh Hall staff, 2005-2008.

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Records of Notre Dame's Washington Program, including two copies of a 2007 video promoting the program.

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Records of Notre Dame's White Center on Law and Government, including photographs.

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Records of the Notre Dame Women's Advisory Council, including photographs.

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Records of the Notre Dame Women's Basketball Office, including many video recordings, notably coaches' films and 703 videos of women's basketball games between Notre Dame and other schools.

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Mimeographed circulars, printed material, clippings, and correspondence; concerning women's issues, the Equal Rights Amendment, and abortion.

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Photographic records of Notre Dame Women's Tennis, consisting of slides of Women's Tennis players at matches, on trips, relaxing, etc., 1985-1988.

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Records of Notre Dame's WSND radio station, including a large collection of audio recordings.

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Records 1967-1978, arranged chronologically and consisting chiefly of liturgies, with some correspondence and reports.

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Correspondence, comments on the campaign, campaign literature, Free City Day information, news clippings, campaign buttons, and a petition with signatures.

Scope and Contents Documents created between 1856 and 1947 and collected by multiple individuals and institutions with connections to the town of Harbor Springs, Michigan, and surrounding communities. The bulk of the collection documents the efforts of Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird to substantiate and defend claims to land ownership and annuities on behalf of Odawa and Ojibwa bands in Little Traverse Bay and nearby communities, stipulated in treaties signed with the United States government in 1836...

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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 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;...