Hesburgh Libraries

Scope and Content

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...

Scope and Contents

Letters written by Daniel O’Connell to various recipients during the 1830s-1840s, a brief newspaper article, and one black-and-white portrait. Two letters date from 1843, O’Connell’s hoped-for “year of repeal,” and relay information about that movement.

Scope and Contents This report of the Confederate Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles, dated 22 October 1862, was written one day after the latter had assumed command of District One of the army's Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. Roughly speaking, the district encompassed the eastern half of Mississippi, minus the counties on the Gulf Coast. Before the reorganization of 21 October, Ruggles had been in temporary command of the district encompassing western Mississippi, called the District of the...

Scope and Contents Cast iron mechanical bank featuring stereotypical representations of three African American baseball players. The metal bank includes a pitcher, a batter, and a catcher all with moveable parts. The fully-functioning spring-loaded bank operates by placing a coin in a slot in the pitcher’s hand and rotating the pitcher’s arm backwards (which also bows the pitcher’s head) to set the arm. Pressing a lever behind the catcher, causes the pitcher to “throw” the coin, the batter to swing the bat,...

Abstract

A Civil War manuscript diary kept by David B. Arthur of Grant County, Wisconsin, as 1st sergeant and 2nd lieutenant in Co. I, 20th Wisconsin Infantry. Entries range from October 1862 to June 1863, when the regiment was serving in Missouri and Arkansas.

Scope and Content

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.

Scope and Content

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,...

Scope and Content

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...

Scope and Content Manuscripts, articles, and letters by and about David Power Conyngham; including a 1914 biographical sketch and a 1988 article about Conyngham; 1932 correspondence between University Archivist Thomas McAvoy, CSC, and various librarians regarding Conyngham and his papers; and a handwritten manuscript and bound transcription of Soldiers of the Cross, Conyngham's history of Union and Confederate Catholic chaplains and sister nurses during the Civil War. All the documents except the...

Scope and Contents Collection consists of a typescript memoir written by folk singer Debbie Green (1940-2017) about a 1965 trip from New York City to Amite County, Mississippi to assist with Civil Rights voter registration efforts. Green describes her travel to Amite with then boyfriend Eric Andersen (1943-), also a folk singer, and Village Voice columnist Jack Newfield (1938-2004). Once they arrive, Green details work with Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) representative...

Scope and Content

Office files representing his teaching, his interest in developing countries in Latin America, and his publications, including offprints or copies of his articles; conference files A-Z; subjects A-Z; book reviews; teaching files; country files (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America); research files A-Z; and a Goulet biogaphical file.

Scope and Content

Photocopy of Clark's diaries, 1948-1989; manuscripts of essays, bibliographies, articles, book reviews, proposals, clippings, and offprints; concerning Irish studies, urban history, labor, public housing, desegregation, and Catholic Action; with a few letters and memoranda, a register of the Clark Papers in the Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies, a television script, and an interview with Clark (1976).

Scope and Contents

Records of Notre Dame's Department of Anthropology, including three photographs.

Scope and Contents Financial records related to the Detroit Tigers American League professional baseball team.Two bound accounting ledgers document the business operation of the Detroit Base Ball and Amusement Company and its successor the Detroit Base Ball Company. Entries in the ledgers record income and expenses for a wide variety of transactions, including player salaries, spring training trips, world series games, routine business matters, and other subjects. Among the notable names in the ledgers are Ty...

Scope and Content

Anniversary booklets, yearbooks, necrologies, directories, ordos, statutes, books, pamphlets, clippings, and other printed material pertaining to dioceses and archdioceses in the United States; providing information on ecclesiastical sees, Catholic institutions, religious education, episcopal appointments, and ordinations; with biographies of priests diocesan histories, parish histories, and diocesan school board reports.

Scope and Content

Miscellaneous papers having to do with the Diocese of Albany or with activities within it; with material relating to bishops John McCloskey and John J. Conroy.

Scope and Content

A few letters dating 1877-1881 with typewritten abstracts, legal documents, and clippings, having to do with the diocese and Bishop Peter Joseph Baltes; also a twentieth-century handwritten biographical sketch of Bishop Baltes.

Scope and Content

Photostats of letters received by Mother M. de Chantal Keating from H. Braun, Bishop Peter J. Hurth, CSC, and Archbishop George Mundelein.

Scope and Content

Two letters received by Bishop John Timon, one letter sent by Bishop Stephen Ryan, and photostats of a life of John B. Merz and a sacramental record book.

Scope and Content

Letters (originals and photostats) from Simon Gabriel Bruté, later Bishop of Vincennes, to William Gaston, North Carolina jurist, 1814-1839; other letters, including one (photostat) from John England (1834); one (photostat) from William Gaston (1811); and one (original) from Patrick N. Lynch, third bishop of Charleston (1882); and a photostat of a journal, 1820-1823, written by Bishop John England.

Scope and Content Correspondence of Bishops Rappe, Gilmour, and Horstmann, with documents concerning the resignation of Bishop Rappe, and a pastoral letter by Bishop Schrembs (22 October 1922); and transcripts of letters received by Fr. Pfeil, many from Bishop Joseph Bernard Dolbing. Also pamphlets, including a sketch of the history of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Sandusky, and newspaper clippings, including articles by Bishop Gilmour, articles concerning him and other bishops, and articles on...

Scope and Content

A 242-page diary kept by Sylvester H. Rosecrans, 1847-1852, which covers his journey to Rome, travels in Italy and preparation for the priesthood; a typewritten transcript of the same diary; letters, poems and clippings by and about Sylvester H. Rosecrans; photostats of some 25 letters concerning the Dominican Sisters at St. Mary of the Springs, Columbus, Ohio, 1829-1860; and a few other items concerning the Catholic Church in Columbus.

Scope and Content

"History of the Diocese of Corpus Christi, Texas" by Sister Mary Xavier Holworthy (a Master's Thesis at St. Mary's Univesrity of San Antonio, Texas, August 1939); and a map of the Diocese of Corpus Christi associated with the thesis.

Scope and Content

Correspondence of Bishop Maes; the manuscript of his History of the Catholic Church in Monroe City and County, Michigan ; minutes of the second preparatory meeting for the Eucharistic convention, 2 June 1894; and other correspondence, papers, and pamphlets relating to Catholic affairs in the diocese, 1858-1922.

Scope and Content Cash book for St. Patrick's Church, Erie, 1849-1864; fragment of a note signed by Tobias Mullen, third bishop of Erie. Also clippings, including one about the diocese of Erie as it was in 1838; four regarding the life and death of Thomas Carroll, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Oil City, Pennsylvania, and benefactor of the University of Notre Dame through his donation for the construction of the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes and through a bequest from his estate; and others...