Hesburgh Libraries

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Correspondence of Holy Cross fathers Peter P. Cooney, William Corby, James M. Dillon, Gilbert Francais, Julius A. Freré, and Basil Anthony Moreau; last wills (1844- 1861), manuscripts of poems, sermons, and speeches, instructions from superiors, military service records, notebooks, and other papers of many Holy Cross priests at Notre Dame.

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Correspondence, reports, constitutions, directories, publications, documentation of meetings, records of activities and institutions, representing the general adminstration of the congregation as it interacted with its provinces, institutions, and members, and with bishops and the Vatican.

Scope and Content Records (1957-1994; bulk 1970-1992) of the Consortium Perfectae Caritatis: consisting of bylaws, constitutions, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, agenda, reports, surveys, interviews, articles, clippings, pamphlets, books, programs, liturgies, photographs, and audio tapes; documenting the development of the Consortium, the actions of its administrative board, its general assemblies, and other activities; including material on issues and events of interest to the Consortium (such as...

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Records of the Consultation on Common Texts, arranged primarily chronologically according to year, consist of correspondence, memoranda, minutes and drafts of the Divine Office, Psalms, Lectionary, and Ecumenical Prayer Services.

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Letters, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, photocopies, printed matter, official documents, genealogies, memoirs, historical sketches, and other material representing the lives of the Coquillards and Volls.

This preliminary inventory is based on the list of items appended to the deed of gift. Missing item numbers belong to items that were not donated to the Notre Dame Archives.

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Two notebooks containing essays, instructions, and other writings on religion and theology that Delahunty evidently wrote after arriving at Notre Dame; and a legal statement by James A. Burns, CSC, concerning Delahunty's character and his benefaction to Holy Cross College, Washington, D.C.

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Several of his religious publications; a copy of "The Hagerty Family History," 1972; and manuscripts of two essays by Hagerty, "The Problem of Evil" and "A Course of Apologetics".

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Correspondence, Board meeting files, research files, conference files, subject files, Vatican II Council Daybooks, surveys, reports, press releases, Corpus directories, circulars, bulletins, newsletters, Priestly Ministry USA, and other printed material.

Scope and Contents Papers donated by William C. Moran dating from 1962, consisting of three documents and an unpublished diary concerning the Peruvian Project of the Council for the International Lay Apostolate (CILA) with entries by William C. Moran, Thomas J. Schlereth, P. Barry Baldwin, and Thomas Bishop; papers donated by Margaret Kelly Davenport dating from 1962, including a CILA membership card, an identification card from the Gran Mision de la Ciudad de Mexico, a flier for bull fights in Plaza Mexico,...

Scope and Contents In 2022, the University of Notre Dame sponsored an oral history project to document the campus community’s experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.The resulting collection includes audio recordings of 85 oral history interviews conducted with administrators, faculty, staff, and students about the University of Notre Dame’s response to, and the campus community’s experience of, the pandemic. A signed consent form and full interview transcription accompanies each recording. The...

Scope and Content Correspondence between Smith and Lee Tavis, 1970s; annual reports of Aviation Corporation (AVOCO), 1930-1935, and American Airlines, 1966-1975; a financial analysis of American Airlines and its predecessor companies by Smith, 1920s-1975; copies of correspondence and advertising memos of Smith, 1948-1956; articles and clippings about Smith, 1940s-1970s; photocopies of the Aircraft Yearbook, 1926-1932; transcripts and audio tapes of interviews of Smith by Tavis, 1970s; a book-length manuscript...

Scope and Content Documents on the history of CRISPAZ; legal documents, reports and correspondence regarding the situation in El Salvador between the period of 1980-2000; correspondence letters between CRISPAZ members; original photographs from shootings and massacres in El Salvador during the civil war; original and copies of news articles concerning the civil war, injustices in El Salvador, and CRISPAZ between the period of 1975-2001; newsletters from CRISPAZ volunteers in El Salvador; information on issues...

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Working files from Sally Cunneen's 1965 survey of readers of Cross Currents magazine; consisting of the coding book, notebooks, completed survey questionnaires, and computer printouts.

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Records of Notre Dame's Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, including audio-visual material, photographs and digital data.

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Sixteen daguerreotypes and ambrotypes (early photographs), most of them portraits.

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Research notes generated by work on her master's thesis, "James F. Edwards Pioneer Archivist of Catholic Church History of America" (1958); with correspondence between Sister Tambola and the Notre Dame Archives.

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Research files in support of Dana Greene's book The Living of Maisie Ward (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997); consisting of interviews, correspondence, notes, and photocopies of manuscript documents and published articles.

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Letter book with entries dating from 10 August 1833 to 1 April 1836, including letters to John Quincy Adams, President Andrew Jackson, Secretary of State Louis McLane, Secretary of State John Forsyth, Edward Stubbs of the State Department, William Brent, Robert Walsh, Philip Kearny, Senator Peleg Sprague, George Law, William B. Taylor, Felix Cicognani (U.S. Consul at Rome), and John W. Parker (U.S. Consul at Amsterdam).

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Catholic books, pamphlets, periodicals, parish histories, post cards, holy cards, and printed ephemera, with a small quantity of manuscript material, artifacts, photographs, audio recordings, videos, and digital data.

Scope and Content Correspondence (1873-1933) with contributors of articles or poetry including Eliza Allen Starr, Charles Warren Stoddard, Maurice Francis Egan, Christian Reid (Frances Tiernan), and many others both in this country and in England; letters from Archbishop Patrick William Riordan, and Bishops Bernard McQuaid, John Lancaster Spalding, and Camillus Paul Maes; a manuscript by Eliza Allen Starr, Woman in Art; part of Bishop Sylvester Rosecrans' autobiographical account of his conversion;...

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Papers from his education at St. Gregory Seminary (1948-1961), the Collegio Propaganda Fide (1953-1961), Xavier University in Cincinnati, and the University of Cincinnati; notebooks, scrapbooks, memorabilia, essays, dissertations, mimeographed circulars and booklets, printed material, correspondence, and diaries (1961, 1966, 1986-2005: closed until 50 years after his death). Also Tax returns (1961-1996), checkbook registers, financial notebooks, and mass intention books.

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Personal files of Daniel H. Winicur, regarding teaching, research, recommendations, curricula vitae, Klezmorim, etc., 1960s-1980s.

Scope and Content Originals and photocopies of letters, documents, clippings, writings, and printed material generated by, concerning, or of interest to Dan Gentile. Topics include the Notre Dame Band, Catholic Comics, Notre Dame Class of 1948, Notre Dame Connecticut Club, Notre Dame football games, the last appearance of the Four Horsemen in 1963, the Notre Dame Religious Bulletins published during World War II, radio at ND, the Notre Dame Rugby Club, and World War II. Also included is biographical material...

Scope and Contents Notesbooks with lecture notes taken by O'Neill during his studies as an electrical engineering student at the University of Notre Dame (class of 1926); material regarding sports lighting; Illuminating Engineering Society files, mainly 1960s, and especially Industrial Lighting Committee; photos of O'Neill's classmates, engineering class of 1926; glass slides from O'Neill's interior lighting business (interiors of sporting arenas); awards; mechanical drawing set and drafting tools from the...

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Files representing David B. Cortright's writings (1988-2010), activities (1992-2017), and teaching career at Goshen College and the University of Notre Dame (1993-2008); concerning peacebuilding, sanctions, nuclear disarmament, war issues, the Fourth Freedom Forum, Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and related topics.

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Negatives and prints of photographs, including aerial photographs, of the 1995-1996 expansion of the stadium, and negatives and prints of aerial photographs of the games in the stadium during the 1996 football season. The donor asks that any publication of these photographs include credit to him as the photographer.

Scope and Content Correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, notes, and material distributed at meetings; with files on Northern Ireland, Ecumenism, Jesuits, Pax Christi, Justice and Peace, Common Liturgical Texts for Christians, and interaction with bishops and other priests; manuscripts and research files for Bowman's book More Than the Troubles: A Common Sense View of the Northern Ireland Conflict (1984); Irish, Irish-American, and other newspapers, magazines, catalogs, brochures,...

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Files representing his career as a teacher and his research interests, including philosophy, theology, and Islam. Papers include reports of the University of Notre Dame Task Forces on academic discipline, enrollment, physical facilities, and research and instruction; correspondence, reports, and minutes, University of Notre Dame Committee on University Priorities, 1972-1974; an evaluation of the University of Notre Dame Philosophy department; and photographs.

Scope and Content Class notes, papers and clippings from grade school, Notre Dame High School (Niles, Illinois) 1958-1962, University of Notre Dame, 1962-1968, Moreau Seminary, 1965-1969, Katholicke Theologische Hogeschool, Utrecht, 1969-1971, and the University of Michigan, 1977-1978; drafts of Schlaver's doctoral dissertation (University of Michigan), The Notre Dame Ethos; manuscripts of works of Henry Nouwen; publications of Pax Christi International; clippings of statements by Father Hesburgh; memoranda,...

Scope and Content Note Correspondence with colleagues, students, college administrators, and publishers; grade lists, syllabi, student evaluations, and records from college committees and departmental activities; class notebooks from his Notre Dame courses (he received a B.A. from Notre Dame in 1960); manuscripts of books, articles, papers, and book reviews by O'Brien; and correspondence, minutes, reports, and other meeting material from his tenure on the board of The National Catholic Reporter. Files...