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Content Description The Marvin “Atomic” Mercer Papers comprises 23 folders relating to the professional wrestling careers of Marvin Mercer (Marvin K. Gehman) and his brother, Jim Mercer (Jesse Mercer Gehman). Included in the collection are promotional photographs, flyers, publicity materials, and personal notes related to wrestling. The collection also includes promotional materials and correspondence relating to wrestler Gene Stanlee and strongman Earle E. Liederman. Formats include photographs, postcards,...

Scope and Contents The Mary Clemency Papers consist of materials collected by Mary Clemency related to the history of women’s basketball at the University of Notre Dame. The collection contains original documents, records, ephemera, photographs, and clippings related to the first organized women’s basketball teams on campus from 1972 through 1976, including bookstore basketball, interhall basketball, a women’s basketball interest group, and club basketball. The collection contains some correspondence between...

Scope and Contents This collection chiefly consists of the correspondence of Mary Taussig Hall. Early letters (circa 1920s) to and from Mary Taussig Hall frequently concern her family, travels, and studies. Later (1930s-) topics of note include her family and social life, travels, and growing interest in social work and political causes. Most correspondence is with family and friends though professional correspondence is also present. Mary’s time at Hull House is well-described, as is a Depression-era job...

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The collection includes more than 50 manuscript letters written during the Civil War by Pvt. John William Masterson, Co. A, 133rd New York Infantry, as well as later papers relating to Masterson's service and to his son William and daughter Ida.

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Ephemera, papers, and photographs collected by Michael Murray '68 regarding the Notre Dame Rowing Club, of which he was a founding member.

Scope and Contents The Michael Perkins Papers consist of the professional and personal papers of Michael Perkins (1942-), a poet, critic, editor, and erotic fiction author. His professional materials represent his writing process for his fiction and poetry, from proposals sent to publishing houses, to multiple rough drafts of his works, to final proofs, as well as publicity for published materials. Also included is a large collection of editorial correspondence with literary agents and publishing houses. Along...

Scope and Contents The papers document the professional life of Mikhail Naumovich Kalik (1927-2017), a celebrated Soviet and Israeli film director and screenwriter. The papers consist of official documents, contracts, film scripts and stills, photographs on film sets, professional correspondence, press releases, promotional materials, posters, and copies of Kalik’s feature films and documentary films. Also included in the Archive are published and unpublished manuscripts by Kalik, copies of...

Scope and Contents The Fleischer collection includes professional and some personal papers of boxing writer and publisher Nat Fleischer. Most prevalent are carbon-copy typescripts of Fleischer's articles, serialized features, and books. There are manuscripts or manuscript drafts, whole or partial, relating to many of his published books, including biographies of boxers John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Terry McGovern, Jack McAuliffe, Gene Tunney, and Jack Dempsey (among others). There are also manuscripts...

Scope and Content Records of the NBCCC dating from 1964 to 2023; with files from board meetings and general meetings, chronological files, membership lists, files organized by Rev. Cyprian Davis, OSB, newsletters, printed ephemera, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, clippings, and other documents concerning the activities and interests of the organization. Also included are materials of allied organizations including the National Black Catholic Seminarians Association, the National Office for Black...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of the National Ideal Benefit Society (NIBS), an African American insurance cooperative headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. It also contains related papers of NIBS founder A.W. Holmes. The correspondence in the collection is mostly written by African Americans, from NIBS policy holders to leaders of the African American community. There is also correspondence between A.W. Holmes and various local churches and benefit societies, national charitable...

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Thirty-three photo scrapbooks compiled by Norma Boyer documenting employee life, especially Christmas parties, and some activities and events at the Morris Inn, December 1975 - December 2010.

Scope and Contents Photographs of Notre Dame faculty, students and administrators; student organizations and government leaders; campus buildings and landscape; classroom, dining hall, and dorm scenes; campus events such as commencements, conferences, and student demonstrations and protests; ROTC and World War II military training; religious ceremonies and other activities relating to the Congregation of Holy Cross; players, coaches, and game scenes in football, basketball, baseball, and other sports; and...

Scope and Contents Records of Notre Dame Magazine, including a large collection of photographs and a small collection of audio-visual material. The Notre Dame Magazine photographic collection consists of black and white negatives, contact sheets, and prints. The images depict University events, student life, campus buildings, academics, sporting events, alumni events, faculty, staff, and other institutional departments. The numbering system is that used by the Notre Dame Magazine office....

Scope and Contents The photographic collection from Notre Dame Media Group consists of color and black and white prints, negatives, slides, and color born-digital photos. The images depict University events, student life, campus buildings, academics, sporting events, alumni events, faculty, staff, and other institutional departments. There are a number of photographs that have no identification and the photographers are unknown. Also five video tapes (Domers Through...

Scope and Contents Records of Notre Dame's Publications Office, including photographs, digital data, and objects. The photographic collection from the Notre Dame Publications Office consists of color and black and white prints, negatives, and slides. The images depict University events, student life, campus buildings, academics, sporting events, alumni events, faculty, staff, and other institutional departments. It is assumed these images were used in or created for various University publications....

Scope and Contents Black and white photographs of the Notre Dame campus buildings and landscape; faculty, students and their clubs, and administrators; sporting events such as baseball, football, and basketball games, along with portraits of the teams and coaches; scenes from dorms, classrooms, laboratories, and dining halls; the university farms; religious ceremonies; commencements and dedications; and other campus activities. Most of these photographs were taken by professional photographers; many are studio...

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A manuscript diary for 1860 kept by a doctor named Ostrom Stephen Lont, from Mazeppa, Wabasha County, Minnesota. Accompanying the diary are around 40 unidentified carte-de-visite portrait photographs and two Lont family bibles.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of personal papers of members of the Paris and Heard families of Augusta and Rockingham counties, Virginia. Materials date from 1852 to 1937, with the Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction years all represented. Included are land deeds, contracts, and militia records of James R. Paris, as well as family correspondence and photographs. The Antebellum letters are chiefly between Lucy Paris, James’s wife, and her family, while later correspondence is mainly between...

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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 Contents This collection details the writings and activities of Peter Michelson, an American poet and professor teaching at several universities around the United States. It contains records of his professional and academic career, including articles, article drafts, and related research; poetry and related drafts; monograph manuscripts, manuscript drafts, and related materials; and teaching materials and student papers. Also included in the collection are professional and personal correspondence,...

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Hugh Rank, a 1954 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, was an author and member of the National Council of Teachers of English. He wrote about persuasive techniques in advertising, and in 1974, he published a Twayne Series biography of Edwin O’Connor, an Irish-American author. Contents of the collection include research material collected in the process of writing his book on O’Connor, as well as teaching aids and publications on evaluating rhetoric in advertising.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith. It includes: Smith's clipped copies of his printed columns, mostly 1954-1982; newspapers and magazines with pieces by or about Smith; clipped columns of Stanley Woodward and Joe H. Palmer; manuscripts and/or proofs of several of Smith's books; an accumulation of around 125 manuscript letters preserved by Smith, including examples signed by Melvin Belli, ...

Scope and Contents The bulk of the Reggie Brown Football Coaching Papers consist of a group of notebooks compiled by football coach Reginald W. P. "Reggie" Brown. Five notebooks (1904, 1905, 1905, 1911, and 1914) document Brown’s years as an assistant coach at Harvard University. One notebook (1928) comes from his stint as the head football coach at Boston University. The 1904 and 1905 notebooks chronicle the events of those Harvard seasons through clippings, practice notes, games notes, play diagrams, game...

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This is a collection of photographs taken by Richard (Dick) Stevens consisting of black and white negatives, contact sheets, and prints. The images depict University events, student life, campus buildings, academics, sporting events, alumni events, faculty, staff, and other institutional departments. It also includes some personal photographs of the Stevens' family.

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A collection of over 150 personal and professional letters written to, from, or between members of the Richards and Lincoln families of Massachusetts and Illinois, 1754 to 1880. Also present are 60 related documents, including manuscripts, financial records, land records, probate records, and other materials.

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A collection of non-book material, much of it printed ephemera, acquired with the University's purchase of the 6000-volume personal library of the American poet Robert Creeley. The collection includes printed mailings and other announcements, periodical issues, broadsides, and posters, as well as photographs, photocopied texts of various kinds, and a small manuscript component.

Scope and Contents The Robert J. Hubbard and Family Photograph Album comprises photographs of the Hubbard family, ministers, American Civil War soldiers, commercial photographs, and more. The majority of images are dated between 1860-1869, with persons primarily being identified in pencil. The album includes the following family members, Robert J. Hubbard (1830-1904), Frederick Hubbard (1817-1895), Mary Hubbard Litchfield (1825-1856), Caroline Hubbard Wolcott (1828-1867), Mary Wolcott (1859-1941),...

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Nineteen 8x10 black-and-white photographs of students in military uniforms at public events on the campus of the University of Notre Dame.

Scope and Contents Papers related to the professional football career of Roger Ellis. Materials include original contracts from the American Football League, the National Football League, and the Canadian Football League; correspondence and ephemera from his playing days from several teams including the New York Giants, New York Titans, New York Jets, the Oakland Area Football Club, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and the Montreal Alouette. The correspondence documents the daily life of a professional football...

Scope and Contents The collection of Rudi Holzapfel on James Clarence Mangan includes Holzapfel’s notes, drafts, collected correspondence, publications and clippings of Mangan’s published work. Rudi Holzapfel’s bibliography, James Clarence Mangan: A Check List of Printed and Other Sources (1969), was the most complete bibliography of Mangan until Jacque Chuto’s James Clarence Mangan: A Bibliography ( 1999). Holzapfel’s work on Mangan continued over many...