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Anna Quincy Thaxter Cushing Diary

Item — Box: 1

Identifier: MSN/EA 8019-1-B

Abstract

A diary maintained by Anna Quincy Thaxter Cushing (1825-1900) of Dorchester, Massachusetts, with daily entries running from March 1858 to August 1861. The entries describe Cushing's personal, family, and social life in considerable detail.

Dates: 1858-1861

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron and Lucy Elizabeth Jane Byron Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MSE/MD 3713

Scope and Contents

Two letters and one fragment written by Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Byron (Lady Byron). One letter written by Lucy Elizabeth Jane Byron.

Dates: 1812 - 1874

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Anonymous "All Sports" Clippings Scrapbooks

Collection

Identifier: MSSP_10027

Content Description This collection consists of 15 scrapbooks of sports clippings housed in period three-ring binders. The scrapbook clippings include material clipped from both newspapers and magazines and contains game reports, feature stories, opinion columns, cartoons, and other material from many different publications. The scrapbook covers the full range of popular college, professional, and amateur sports with some emphasis on baseball and boxing. Most clippings document men's sports, but there are also...

Dates: 1942, 1945-1957

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Anonymous Outdoor Recreation Family Photograph Album

Collection

Identifier: MSSP_7012

Content Description The primary item in this collection is an album of vernacular photographs recording the outdoor leisure activities of an unidentified American family possibly from the Northeastern United States. None of the prints carry any identifying information, but the pictures are organized into discrete series. The most notable of these series with 143 photographs may depict a canoeing, hiking, and fishing expedition to the Canadian North. This series includes numerous images of Native American or...

Dates: c. 1910

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Antoine Garrigues de Flaujac Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSN/EA 5040

Abstract

Thirteen personal letters written by the French immigrant Antoine Garrigues de Flaujac, mostly directed to his mother in France. The letters describe his experiences in Haiti and the Caribbean (1803-04) and in the area around New Orleans, Louisiana (1804-07).

Dates: 1803-1807

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Arina S. and Aleksandr I. Ginzburg Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSE/REE 0004

Abstract The papers consist of documents, letters, photographs, audiocassettes, and some printed material. The greater part of the collection contains materials relating to Aleksandr Ginzburg's second arrest and imprisonment (1967-1972), including almost 2,000 letters and original trial documents. The collection also includes material relating to Aleksandr Ginzburg's third arrest and imprisonment (1977-1979), documents of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, and material relating to Arina and Aleksandr...

Dates: circa 1950s-2016

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Armonía Somers Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSH/LAT 0116

Scope and Contents

The Armonía Somers collection consists of twenty folders of materials related to Somers’ writing and publications. Writing covers outlines and drafts for short stories primarily included in El hacedor de girasoles(1994), her final novel. Included are writing materials related to other stories as well as a draft for an unpublished poem. Formats include photographs, invitations, and draft documents.

Dates: 1964-1994

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Arthur Vincent Taylor Scrapbook

Item — Box: MSSP9000

Identifier: MSSP_9000

Content Description Scrapbook compiled by Arthur Vincent Taylor, which includes manuscripts, correspondence clippings, ephemera, and other material. The content in the scrapbook recounts events throughout his life from high school to retirement. The scrapbook includes considerable material about his years at Williams College, including his participation in sports; his high school teaching career in Newark, New Jersey; his adult amateur golfing; and his sportswriting, especially about fishing and golf....

Dates: 1878-1936

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Atomic Bomb Board Game

Collection — Box: MSSP Game CC-0001

Identifier: MSSP 10105

Scope and Contents American-made manual dexterity board game depicting the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945. The object of the game is to maneuver two plastic capsules containing a weighted metal ball into holes in a map of Japan representing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two cities destroyed by atomic bombs dropped by the United States. Tokyo is also labeled on the map without any corresponding target hole. The black and yellow cardboard surface of the game features a map of Japan and an oversized bomb labeled...

Dates: c. 1946

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Aubrey De Vere Letters to Robert Perceval Graves

Collection

Identifier: MSE/IR 1040

Scope and Contents This collection centers on a series of letters sent from the poet Aubrey De Vere to the clergyman Robert Perceval Graves over the course of fifty-five years, particularly pertaining to the life of their mutual friend, William Rowan Hamilton. Also present are several of De Vere’s letters that were sent to an unidentified person, likely Bishop Charles Graves. Additionally included are three letters sent from Elinor O’Brien to Robert Perceval Graves.All of the letters are...

Dates: 1833 - 1891; Majority of material found within 1879 - 1883

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Aubrey De Vere Poems

Collection

Identifier: MSE/IR 1013

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of three manuscript poems by Aubrey de Vere.

Dates: 1899 - 1899

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Augustus Vincent Tack Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSN/MN 0505

Abstract

Incoming letters and documents preserved by the American painter Augustus Vincent Tack, mostly relating to his tenure (1914-1915?) as treasurer of the American Oil Development Company of Pittsburgh, the Tack family business.

Dates: 1914-1923; Majority of material found within ( 1914-1915)

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Barrier Family Letters

Collection

Identifier: MSN/CW 5057

Abstract

More than one hundred letters written during the Civil War by two brothers serving in the Confederate army, Sgt. William Lafayette Barrier (1st North Carolina Cavalry) and Col. Rufus Barrier (8th North Carolina Infantry). The letters are mostly directed to the brothers' father, Mathias Barrier, in Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus County, North Carolina.

Dates: 1861-1868; Majority of material found in ( 1861-1865)

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Baseball Annual Publications - Magazine Format, Miscellaneous Titles Collection

Collection

Identifier: BAS_195

Scope and Contents This collection contains annual publications in magazine format devoted to baseball. The magazines mostly covered major league baseball in the United States. The magazines published prior to the season—or sometimes during the season—generally included reviews of the previous year’s season; team and players statistics; and previews of the upcoming—or in-progress—season, including information about leagues, teams, players managers, and other details. The magazines often include essays,...

Dates: 1939-1994

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Baseball Sheet Music Collection

Collection

Identifier: EPH 7502

Scope and Contents

An accumulation of around 400 different pieces of published sheet music relating to baseball. The relationship may reside in the music's title or lyrics, in the sheet's cover graphics, or in some other identification with the game. Examples bear copyright dates ranging from 1860 to 1992. Baseball themed sheet music was especially common in the half-decade before World War I.

Dates: 1860-1992

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Basketball Association of America (BAA) Game Programs Collection

Collection

Identifier: BKP_615

Scope and Contents This collection contains about 60 programs and scorecards issued for Basketball Association of America games. Teams, arenas, and other vendors published programs and scorecards for purchase by fans attending the games. The programs and scorecards usually contain at a minimum roster and lineup information and space for attendees to keep score of the game. The programs tend to become larger, longer, and more substantial over the years and sometimes contain additional information about the...

Dates: 1946-1949

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Beláustegui Bustamante Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSH/LAT 0050

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the papers of the Beláustegui -Bustamante Family, centered in San Isidro, Argentina, covering four generations from Melchor Beláustegui Rodríguez to his great-granddaughter Isabel Giménez Bustamante. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence between family members and friends. Notable correspondents include Isabel Giménez Bustamante; her siblings, Rodolfo (Jr), Enrique, María Adela, and María Carlota; and her parents, Rodolfo Giménez Bustamante...

Dates: 1820-1976

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Bellamy-Smart Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSN/EA 5041

Abstract

A collection consisting mainly of 55 personal letters, including courtship letters, directed to Amanda Bellamy (later Amanda Smart, ca. 1810-1845) of Warrenton, North Carolina and Petersburg, Virginia. There are also letters received by Amanda's daughter, Mollie Smart, and other family papers.

Dates: 1825-1933; Majority of material found in 1825-1865

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Bernie Bierman Program Radio Scripts Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSSP_1002

Content Description A group of five mimeographed radio scripts for the Bernie Bierman Program broadcast on WCCO, Minneapolis during the 1941 Minnesota football season. Each script runs from 16 to 19 pages and includes Minneapolis Star Journal Sports Editor Charles O. "Charlie" Johnson interviewing Bierman about the previous week's game. Each script also includes a preview of the next game on the schedule usually with reporting by one of Minnesota's football scouts. The Bernie Bierman program was sponsored by...

Dates: 1941

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Bert Bell Philadelphia Eagles Financial Records

Collection

Identifier: MSSP_1009

Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection consists of two spiral-bound notebooks with financial records related to the 1937 Philadelphia Eagles season. One notebook includes player salary information, and the second notebook includes information about advertisers in programs for home games and information about people who bought season tickets. The collection also includes one letter from Bert Bell to his wife Frances Upton.

Dates: 1934; 1937; Majority of material found in 1937

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Birmingham Black Barons records

Collection

Identifier: MSSP 0001

Abstract

A collection of records, mostly financial, of the Birmingham (Alabama) Black Barons Negro Leagues professional baseball club. The most significant item in the collection is a manuscript cash book, showing the club's financial accounts with each of its players for the seasons 1926 through 1930.

Dates: 1923-1930

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Boardman Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSN/EA 10077

Scope and Contents Collection consists of the professional correspondence and business papers of Elijah Boardman, a prominent Connecticut merchant, land owner, and United States Senator. Also present is personal correspondence and papers from several generations of the Boardman family. Boardman’s correspondence is comprised of retained copies of letters written by Boardman, as well as incoming letters to him. The letters document Boardman’s extensive real estate holdings and his investment in the...

Dates: 1762 - 1906

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Booth Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSN/MN 10044

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials relating to the family and careers of artists Franklin and Hanson Booth. It contains family portraits, print ephemera, and writings created by Franklin Booth, his sister Julia Booth Christian, brother Frederick Booth, sister-in-law Margaret Booth, niece Portia Booth, and nephews Jim Christian and Paul Christian II. Writings of family friend and Franklin Booth aficionado Howard C. Caldwell are also found. Topics of note include Booth Family history, Franklin...

Dates: 1890 - 1976

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MSN/EA 1506

Abstract

Much of this collection consists of incoming business correspondence to officers and directors of the Boston and Providence Railroad and its branches, written in the 1830s, 40s, and 50s.

Dates: 1832-1912; Majority of material found within

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Boxers Scrapbook Collection

Collection

Identifier: BOX_760

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 41 scrapbooks about professional boxers. The scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown person and contain almost exclusively articles and photographs clipped from various newspapers and periodicals dating from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, although some of the material is retrospective. Sources for the clippings include daily newspapers and boxing periodicals. There are few citations included. Most scrapbooks are devoted to the exploits and career of individual...

Dates: Majority of material found within c. 1930s - c. 1950s

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Brendan Behan Manuscript

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MSE/IR 1071

Scope and Contents

The typescript is a complete short story with the title "A Coat for Confirmation". This appears to be an early draft of Behan's short story "The Confirmation Suit", first published in The Catholic Standard, 27 March, 1953, and later included in Behan's Brendan Behan's Island: An Irish Sketchbook (1962). Ths short story has also been published in school anthologies.

Dates: circa 1953

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Brian Friel Letters to Pat Laffan and Bronwen Casson

Collection

Identifier: MSE/IR 1015

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of three letters and two notes sent from Irish playwright Brian Friel to actor Pat Laffan and theatre designer Bronwen Casson.

Dates: 1973 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1974

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Brian H. Smith Chilean Oral History Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSH/LAT 108

Scope and Contents This collection consists of audio recordings made by Brian H. Smith in Chile in 1975. These include recordings of interviews with Chilean bishops and recordings of Smith’s audio summaries of interviews with bishops which could not be recorded. Each interview consists of responses to a structured set of 41 survey quesitons concerning the pastoral, social and political aspects of the Catholic Church in Chile from 1925 to 1975. Also included are recordings of conversations with clergy and laity...

Dates: 1975-01 - 1975-11

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Bristol County, Massachusetts Court Records

Collection

Identifier: MSN/COL 2717

Abstract

An accumulation of 96 single-sheet manuscript file documents issued by or directed to the judiciary of Bristol County in southeastern Massachusetts, mostly during the colonial period.

Dates: 1696/7-1816

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

Building Physical Power Posters Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSSP 10089

Scope and Contents Posters demonstrating at-home workout techniques for men and women using everyday objects. Each poster is titled “Building Physical Power, The Science of Acquiring Strength Through Spinal Development.” The posters were published by the United Schools of Physical Culture, Executive Offices: 915 Flatiron Building, New York. Each poster features a model demonstrating poses instructed by Bernar McFadden. Each poster is copyrighted 1909 by E. R. Du Mont. This collection currently only includes...

Dates: 1909

Found in: University of Notre Dame Rare Books & Special Collections

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Anna Quincy Thaxter Cushing Diary

Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron and Lucy Elizabeth Jane Byron Correspondence

Anonymous "All Sports" Clippings Scrapbooks

Anonymous Outdoor Recreation Family Photograph Album

Antoine Garrigues de Flaujac Letters

Arina S. and Aleksandr I. Ginzburg Papers

Armonía Somers Collection

Arthur Vincent Taylor Scrapbook

Atomic Bomb Board Game

Aubrey De Vere Letters to Robert Perceval Graves

Aubrey De Vere Poems

Augustus Vincent Tack Papers

Barrier Family Letters

Baseball Annual Publications - Magazine Format, Miscellaneous Titles Collection

Baseball Sheet Music Collection

Basketball Association of America (BAA) Game Programs Collection

Beláustegui Bustamante Family Papers

Bellamy-Smart Family Papers

Bernie Bierman Program Radio Scripts Collection

Bert Bell Philadelphia Eagles Financial Records

Birmingham Black Barons records

Boardman Family Papers

Booth Family Papers

Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation Correspondence

Boxers Scrapbook Collection

Brendan Behan Manuscript

Brian Friel Letters to Pat Laffan and Bronwen Casson

Brian H. Smith Chilean Oral History Collection

Bristol County, Massachusetts Court Records

Building Physical Power Posters Collection

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