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Diocese of Marquette Collection
Collection
Identifier: DMA
Scope and Content Note
This collection focuses primarily on the early years of the Diocese of Marquette (then known as the Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie and Marquette) under Bishop Frederic Baraga and later Bishop Ignatius Mrak. Included are the correspondence and papers of Ignatius Mrak; transcripts of letters written by Ignatius Mrak and Frederic Baraga; catechisms composed by Ignatius Mrak, Francis X. Pierz, and Reverend Nicholas Louis Sifferath in Ottawa; a manuscript polyglot dictionary of French, German, and...
Dates:
1808-1968 (bulk 1839-1895)
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Frederic Baraga Papers
Fonds
Identifier: BAR
Scope and Content
Copies of typewritten transcripts of documentation assembled by the Bishop Baraga Association in support of the cause for his canonization as a saint; consisting of correspondence, reports, journal and account-book entries, and invoices. Also microfilm containing correspondence, 1850s-1860s; an Indian language (Ottawa or Chippewa) catechism; an introduction to Catholicism in North America, in German, possibly written for the Leopoldine Society; and correspondence and records of...
Dates:
1809-1908.
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird Collection
Collection
Identifier: LOB
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...
Dates:
1856 - 1947
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives