Hesburgh Libraries

Scope and Content Personal correspondence, photographs, and newspapers comprise the bulk of the collection; with the addition of company records, army records and printed materials. The collection spans from 1918-2009. The bulk of the collection was generated from 1939 to 1945 during Flynn's years as a college student and member of the armed forces. Materials from World War II form a large portion of the collection. Handwritten correspondence with family members, solider's guide books, newspapers, and ration...

Scope and Content Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to personal and business affairs and to politics, primarily in the 1930s and 1940s; minutes, proceedings, reports and press releases of the Executive Council, the National Emergency Council and the Post Office; financial reports of the Democratic National Committee 1924-1938, 1943-1944; reports on the motion picture industry, and correspondence and reports concerning the Notre Dame Board of Lay Trustees and the Notre Dame Foundation; a tape...

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Speeches and articles from The Carpenter (a trade union magazine); concerning labor-management issues from a strongly pro-labor position, with emphasis on the importance of persistence in the labor wars and of union membership.

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Papers concerning Geno Baroni collected by Frank J. Cavaioli; and six cassette audio tapes containing Cavaioli's interviews with Baroni.

Scope and Content A citation and testimonial from the Massachusetts Committee, Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, 25 May 1950; "Resolutions on the Resignation of Frank Leahy from Notre Dame University," from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1 February 1954; the Banshees Award for Sportsmanship, 15 September 1955; a certificate from the Notre Dame Club of Chicago, 7 December 1964; a certificate appointing Leahy a Sagamore of the Wabash, 13 January 1969; an official citation from the...

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Correspondence, 1923-1960s; speeches by Folsom, 1940s; diaries and daily logs, 1940s-1960s; photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings involving Folsom, 1943-1963; and printed material including reports of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1957-1963.

Scope and Content Photostats of manuscripts including correspondence from Patrick Charles Keely, 1849-1851; photographs used in two books by Francis Kervick: Architects in America of Catholic Tradition and Patrick Charles Keely, Architect: a Record of His Life and Work; two photo albums documenting the dedication of the Notre Dame Architecture Center in Rome, Italy (1986); a 23 June 1937 dinner menu from the French packet boat Ile-de-France; a company...

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Papers documenting Brown's work in flow visualization, including manuscripts, printed material, 35mm slides, and 8mm and 16mm film.

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Letters received by Rev. Frank O'Brien, including one appointing him Dean of the new Kalamazoo Deanery (7 December 1886); and documents concerning his appointment by Governor of Michigan Russell A. Alger to the State Board of Corrections and Charities, an appointment that O'Brien did not accept.

Scope and Content The Frank W. Kelly Papers chronicle Professor Kelly's activities in the Notre Dame Speech Department during the 1940's. The arrangement of the collection was imposed on it by the arranging archivist; there was no order to the materials when they arrived in the archives. The collection is now split into two series, Class Records and Course Materials. The Class Records consist of registration cards, (arranged by class day and time when years are not evident) exams and theses, and...

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Letters of the Fransen brothers (Albert, Rene, Vondel, and Adolph) to their parents, 1917-1925; photocopies of related material; photographs of Notre Dame sports; and snapshots of minim life.

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...

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Papers of Frederic Syburg, including theatre programs, posters, telegrams, correspondence, printed ephemera, and other papers, dating chiefly from the second half of the twentieth century, representing his many years of service to the University of Notre Dame as a teacher of dramatic arts and director of over 50 theatrical productions.

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Letters including one from Nicholas Murray Butler and one from John W. Cavanaugh, CSC; biography of Wile; and a transcript of a speech by Wile on the causes of World War I.

Scope and Content Correspondence, minutes, reports, and printed material, 1940-1982, from his active involvement in religious organizations, including the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Life, Albertus Magnus Guild, Pax Romana, and Catholic Association for International Peace; professional organizations, including the National Academy of Science, American Chemical Society, and Argonne Universities Association; campus organizations, including and the University of Notre Dame Research Council,...

Scope and Content Photocopies of Hochwalt's correspondence concerning Sister Formation Conferences (1950-1964), federal aid to education (1944-1964), UNESCO (1944-1965), and the proper role of Catholic educators in the National Education Association (1947-1965); a bibliography of articles written by Hochwalt; copies of articles and speeches written by Hochwalt including a transcript of a debate between Hochwalt and Oswald CJ Hoffmann on federal aid to education, 1961; press releases of the NCWC, 1940s-1950s;...

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Manuscript, "The Theory of Eulerian Integrals with Relation to the Gauss Product Function," 1926; class record book, 1953-1961; and diplomas from the University of Notre Dame, 1916, and Catholic University of America, 1925.

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Files from the office of Frederick J. Crosson documenting his faculty service, his work with Phi Beta Kappa (of which he served as the first Catholic president), his teaching, his research, and his professional activities.

Scope and Content Correspondence, speeches, reports, and other papers; with material on the Kenkel family, clippings, maps, notebooks, a reel of microfilm containing letters from Kenkel to Joseph Matt (1906-1913), photographs of Kenkel and members of his family and books from Kenkel's library. Correspondents include Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, John A. Ryan, Congressman John J. Cochran, and Brother Joseph Dutton. Extensive family correspondence includes letters from those serving in World War...

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A certificate appointing McKeon an army chaplain and general orders from the War Department (1918-1919); newspapers The Courier-Journal, Camp Zachary Taylor Edition (1918), and The Chicago Daily Hoosier (1913); and photographs.

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Two scrapbooks (35mm contact prints and extensive commentary) regarding Frederick Pike's trip to Peru 1963-1964.

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Manuscripts and offprints of Fritz Marti's writings and talks; correspondence files; papers on philosophical topics of interest to Marti, especially Schelling, Fichte, Kant, Hegel, and Augustine; with material on philosophy and religion and education in philosophy and papers representing his teaching at several colleges and universities.

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1949-1980; writings of D'Alelio such as his Ph.D. dissertation, "A Study of Some Alipathic Substituted Amides," 1935, manuscripts of his papers, talks, and books including his Fundamental Principles of Polymerization (1952), and reports from his work for NASA and the United States Air Force, 1962-1976; subject files concerning his research, professional trips to the USSR (1960) and Honolulu (1969); patent files, 1938-1980; legal records, 1976-1980; student records such as...

Scope and Content A few letters and documents of James Gartland; his son Bishop Francis Xavier Gartland of Savannah and daughter Mrs. Bridget M. Robbins; and Joseph A. Gartland (relation undetermined). James Gartland material (ca.1807) includes letters concerning and the manuscript of his book, The Commercial Shamrog, an almanac containing conversion tables directed at merchants in the newly unified United Kingdom; and a lengthy letter of spiritual advice written to...

Scope and Content List of early writings, 1934- ; notebook diary - Trinidad, 1945; talks, 1960s-1990; letters, bulk 1960s- ; articles; press credentials and personal material; research material; book contracts; liberation theology file; course outline for United States - Latin American Relations course taught at Fordham, Lincoln Center, 1971-1973, and Fairleigh Dickenson Univ., NJ; Voice of America material - Spanish; Oxfam study tours - Univ. of Essex H.R. Report; The Nation (Conflict); files on his writing:...

Content Description Records of the Gay and Lesbian Alumni/ae of the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College (GALA-ND/SMC) include constitutions and organizational documents for a variety of gay rights organizations at the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College and promotional materials, correspondence and articles about gay rights issues and events at the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College such as The Queer Film Fest and National Coming Out Day. These records also include...

Scope and Content Pamphlets, periodicals, and printed ephemera collected by the University of Notre Dame Archives; concerning the history of Catholicism in the United States, Catholic tradition, doctrine, clergy, religious orders, celibacy, Canon Law, Catholic Action, the Bible, the social teaching of the popes, labor unions, scholasticism, immigration; the Second Vatican Council, birth control, saints, the Irish, Catholic missions and missionaries, Catholic education, Fascism, communism, socialism, racism,...

Scope and Content Correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, agenda, reports, newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, plans, bills, questionnaires, statistics, training courses, and background papers; concerning catechetics, teaching, work with youth, race relations, black power, civil rights, fair housing, integration, poverty, birth control, minimum wage, credit unions, co-op housing, welfare, crime, Catholic Action, voter registration, urban rehabilitation, and ethnic populations of cities all over the...

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Class and lecture notes (from Holy Cross College and Catholic University), exams, and a gradebook (Notre Dame).

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A 1951 student paper written by Craig titled "Oviposition Sites of Floodwater Mosquitoes on the Flood Plain of the Sangamon River".