Hesburgh Libraries

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Minutes, 1897-1915; correspondence, 1897-1931; clippings, 1897-1915; and a medal and certificate from a GAR reunion held in 1900; with material on Peter Paul Cooney, William Corby, and James A. McLain.

Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of business letters and records retained by William Graves, Jr., in the course of managing his shipping interests after his retirement from the sea (1847). There are some 330 letters, 1850 to 1875, mostly directed to Graves (accompanied by a few retained copies of letters written by him). Much of this correspondence relates to the affairs of the ships George West, Castilian, and Josiah L. Hale. Many were written by the masters of these ships, who functioned...

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Family correspondence and other manuscript materials of the influential Green family of Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York. Of the 200-odd letters in the collection, the greater number were written by and to the ten children of Dr. John Green and Mary Ruggles in the 1790s, 1800s, and 1810s.

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Notre Dame athletic memorabilia, nearly all concerning football, including scrapbook material, letters, playbooks, tickets, a scouting report, films, a record album, photographs, a plaque, and football programs.

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Filmstrips with associated audio cassette tapes and scripts, including "Every Heart Beats True," concerning conscientious objection and Catholic teaching on military service (1980), "Weapons in Space" (1984), "Whose Budget Is It Anyway?", and "Hostage at Hell's Bottom: the Economy and the Pentagon"; VHS video tapes, including "A Step Away from War" (1986) and "Citizen Ambassador Program" (1993); and many slides concerning peace and militarism.

Scope and Content 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. These photographs were primarily the work of amateurs, including students working...

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Mostly clippings and scrapbooks concerning Peter A. Gushurst, pioneer businessman in Lead, South Dakota, his wife Josphine Gushurst, and their son Fred Gushurst, football star at the University of Notre Dame, 1912-1914, and businessman in Denver, Colorado.

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A manuscript diary maintained by Confederate States Pvt. H. H. Wiseman, Co. B, 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery, recounting Wiseman's experiences in Union prison camps at Governors Island and Elmira, New York in 1864-1865.

Scope and Contents This collection consists chiefly of printed and graphic materials related to the Harlem Globetrotters professional basketball team, including programs, yearbooks, promotional material, and publicity photos. The programs document games between the Globetrotters and various professional basketball teams. The earliest program is from 1941 and the latest program is from 1969. The collection also includes programs from the World Series of Basketball, an annual series of games during the 1950s and...

Scope and Contents This collection contains documents relating to the Inquisitions of Spain, Italy, Portugal, Peru, and Mexico. Included are manuals and guidelines on proper conduct within the inquisition; accounts of trial procedures, prisoner sentences, and autos de fe; and certificates and books of privileges of the staff of the inquisitions. Also included are public edicts, papal bulls, and royal decrees published by various inquisitions relating to banned works, jurisdiction of the different inquisitions,...

Scope and Content Four reels of 16 mm film dating from the 1930s made by Harold D. Crotty, showing a Christmas tree, a woman pushing a toddler on a tricycle, a train ride, a crash site, a parade, a child with toys, a football team coming out into a stadium, football game scenes, a marching band, stadium stands; the Brown Derby restaurant, Los Angeles and southern California, automobiles driving and parked in the street, a parade featuring floats with a Trojan horse and a Viking long ship, Miss All American, a...

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77 Civil War letters of Harrison E. Randall of Fulton County, Ohio, written from the field as a member of Co. H, 100th Ohio Infantry. Most were written from Kentucky (September 1862 to August 1863), Georgia, during the Atlanta campaign (June to August 1864), Alabama and Tennessee, including letters from the Nashville campaign (October 1864 to January 1865) and North Carolina (March and April 1865).

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Offprints of articles on genetics or other biological topics; files supporting teaching and research; many certificates and awards; floppy disks and CD-R disks containing data representing the works of Prof. Bender; photographs, many of them used in teaching; and Objects related to his teaching, research interests, and personal life.

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A group of 33 letters recording the personal affairs of a Depression-era African-American family. The letters are directed to Mrs. Hattie Aiken Robinson of Texarkana, Arkansas, by family members in Arkansas, St. Louis, and Chicago.

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Collection of printed telegrams and manuscript revisions of the French Havas news agency. Telegrams focus on Spanish citizens and refugees during the Spanish Civil War in Spain, Mexico, and South America.

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Notre Dame photographs taken by Heather Gollatz Dukeman starting circa 1998.

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Correspondence, 1912-1913 and 1922-1938; drafts of publications, articles and notes used in his publications; reviews of his writings; his subject files on such topics as evolution, the Bible, and New Testament social teachings; and printed matter such as Hand der Neutestamentlichen Textkritik (1923).

In English, Greek, and German.

Scope and Content An inventory of material collected by Sister Helen Angela for her biography of Ireland, John of St. Paul: The Making of Archbishop Ireland; correspondence concerning the biography, 1953-1961; and clippings and a manuscript by Sister Angela concerning Ireland's work as a Civil War chaplain. Also microfilm containing notes and transcripts of letters in two different hands and clippings that span the years 1892-1905; concerning Catholic schools in America, the Spanish-American...

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Correspondence, 1952-1957; notes taken by Homan, 1955; and manuscripts of her book Men in Religion, 1956.

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Papers include a book-length manuscript, The Sons of Partridge; notes, maps and bibliographical material used by Cope in her research; and correspondence concerning her work, 1958-1979.

Scope and Content Papers concerning attempts to have the United States government ratify a leasing agreement for oil concessions near Brant, New York, made between Seneca Nation of Indians on Allegany and Oil Spring Reservations in the State of New York and Henry A. Walter as the representative of the Alden Aurora Gas Company and later the Shore Gas Company, both of Buffalo (the lease was ratified by the House of Representatives but never by the Senate); with copies of the lease, bills proposed, and...

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Correspondence (1949-1988) between Henry C. Wurzer and others, much of it having to do with the beginnings of the Morris Inn, with correspondents including Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, Edmund P. Joyce, CSC, John J. Cavanaugh, CSC, John J. Burke, CSC, and E.M. Morris; a Morris Inn file; a copy of "Notre Dame Inn: comments on Survey of Horwath & Horwath" (January 1950), architectural drawings, clippings, ephemera, and photographs.

Scope and Content Photocopies of letters sent to Hinsenkamp from Syracuse University and Rutgers offering scholarships; from Knute Rockne offering advice and encouragement; from Rupert F. Mills concerning Hinsenkamp's problem with rheumatism in 1928; from John F. Cardinal O'Hara, CSC; from Frank Leahy; from J. Birney Crum, his high school coach; and from others; with a few letters written by Hinsenkamp and a few documents concerning his career at Notre Dame and his continuing interest in the university as an...

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Correspondence, material on the American Catholic Congress of Baltimore (1889), and miscellaneous material including one scrapbook of clippings.

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A group of 50 personal letters written during the Civil War by Union private Henry H. Maley, Co. K, 84th Illinois Infantry. Most of the letters date from 1864-65, when the regiment was attached to IV Corps, in the Army of the Cumberland.

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Correspondence, notebooks, class record books, passport and immunization record.

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O'Connor, an Undersecretary of State during James G. Blaine's tenure as Secretary of State in 1882, writes in defense of Blaine's handling of the office and advances Blaine as an ideal 1888 Republican presidential nominee.

Scope and Contents Letter from Henry S. Figures, a young Alabama salesman, to his father. Much of the letter's content treats the military plans and aspirations of Figures' acquaintances, as the Confederacy hastened to mold existing state militias and fresh volunteers into a national army. Many of those mentioned would serve with Figures in the 4th Alabama: Clifton Walker, Samuel Moore, and Fielding Bradford all were privates in Company I, and William Fariss, like Figures, served in Company F. The regiment had...

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Account books of a St. Louis newspaper publishing company showing monthly financial accounts with occasional months not included.

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Forty-page diary of a visit to missions among blacks in the United States, 1871-1872.