Hesburgh Libraries

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Correspondence, passports, death notices, memorial cards, holy cards,

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Images of Football, Basketball, Baseball, Track, Golf, Fencing, Boxing, Tennis, Minor Sports, and Miscellaneous.

Types of Negatives: Films (F) and Glass Plates (G). Sizes: 45 (4"x5") 57 (5"x7") 81 (8"x10") OV (Oversize).

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Interviews concerning military and wartime experiences and how those experiences influenced perceptions of the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq. Interviews were conducted by eight students in Barbara Allen's oral history class (Spring semester 1991)

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Typescript minutes of the Board of Trustees of the town of Bardstown, Kentucky, including sale of lots with names, deeds and transfers, construction of market houses, slave rules, expenses, elected officials,election results, and fire protection.

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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.

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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.

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...

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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.

Scope and Content Correspondence addressed to Benedict Joseph Spalding (1811-1868) by bishops Guy Ignatius Chabrat, Benedict Joseph Flaget, Francis X. Gartland, Peter R. Kenrick, Richard P. Miles, Martin John Spalding and Peter J. Lavialle; by priests including Francis Chambige, William E. Clark, Joseph Haseltine, and James M. Lancaster; by religious including Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Sisters of Loretto, Jesuits, a Trappist, and a Dominican; and by lay people including L.W. Powell (Governor of...

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Sponsa Regis 1933-1965, which became Sisters Today 1966-2000; American Benedictine Review 1951-2000; Orate Fratres 1926-1951, which became Worship 1951-2000. Some issues, even whole volumes, missing.

Scope and Content Anonymous handwritten historical sketch with extracts of Petit's correspondence; concerning the foundation of the Congregation of Holy Cross in the United States and its condition circa 1857, the spiritual advantages of the Association of Indulgences, and the Potawatomie Indians in the vicinity of South Bend. Also a photocopy of an article from the Ave Maria concerning Petit (1865) and a copy of The Trail of Death: Letters of Benjamin Marie Petit edited by Irving...

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Personal Letters received from Richard Parrish and Joseph Lally Brennan (1980s); and miscellaneous letters received as President of the Class of 1928.

Scope and Content Cullity's correspondence with his colleagues, former and prospective students, Notre Dame administrators, government agencies, and private corporations; research notes and reports, manuscripts of his articles and textbook and reprints of articles by others; grant applications and supporting documents; and outlines, exams, and other material relating to the courses he taught at Notre Dame. Much of the collection documents Cullity's research on projects supported by the Atomic...

Scope and Content Research files representing Doering's interest in Jacques Maritain and others associated with him, including Saul Alinsky, Julien Green, Charles Cardinal Journet, Georges Rouault, Yves R. Simon, Simone Weil, and others; teaching files on prominent French authors and periods of French literature; subject files representing his personal interests, his criticism of neoconservative appropriation of Jacques Maritain, and his service at Notre Dame, especially his work with international studies...

Scope and Content Books collected by Bernard Lange, CSC, in English and German, many of them illustrated, concerning sex, sexual practices of various cultures, sexual hygiene, sexual magic, sex in the future, sexual mores, sexual perversions, sexual power, exercise, the human body, nudism, women, and children. One oil portrait of Lange in a cap and gown. Three body-building and weight-lifting plaques representing awards carved by Father Lange for Robert Aboczky, when he was a student at Notre Dame in the...

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Letters from Archbishop John Hughes of New York, Bishop Michael O'Connor of Pittsburgh, and others; with some letters addressed to Tobias Kirby, Rector of the Irish College, Rome.

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Correspondence, 1891-1950, and a manuscript record of American Catholic missions arranged by state and city, 1600s-1900s.

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Photocopies of lineages and official documents concerning the Bertrand family of Niles, Michigan, and its forebears.

Scope and Content Records, primarily audio-visual, documenting the work of the WNDU-sponsored Junior Achievement project "Beyond Our Control"; consisting of hundreds of video and audio recordings, including raw and edited footage, show clips, sound effects, with an organized collection of many of the clips and a video of the 2001 BOC Alumni Reunion. With related printed material, ephemera, and photographs, including slides and scripts from recruiting presentations. Also plaques; a television-show credits...

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Correspondence and manuscripts in the Barberini collection of the Vatican Library, including documents concerning activities of Pope Urban VIII, a member of the Barberini family. The Vatican Library's manuscript collections are divided according to language group; languages using the Latin alphabet are classified as Latin. The Barberini Library contains over 10,000 Latin codices; this microfilm contains Barberini Latin codices 8617-8660.

In Latin, Italian, and French.

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Black and white prints of the ld Band Building and Holy Cross Hall before their eventual demolition, c1990. Also samples of trim and moldings from Notre Dame buildings.

Bill Farmer commissioned Law Graphics to take these photographs; Farmer then donated them to the Archives

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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.

Scope and Contents Photographs and photomechanical prints of individual Catholic clergy and religious, especially portraits of the Popes and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church; religious artwork; groups of Catholic religious, clergy, and lay people; Catholic missions and missionaries in the United States, Japan, and India, specifically the Bengal region which became East Pakistan and then Bangladesh; and Catholic churches, schools, orphanages, and other institutions. The photographs and prints...

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...

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Books having to do with the history of the Catholic Church in the United States and territories that eventually became part of the U.S.; reference works likely to be helpful to researchers in the Notre Dame Archives; and books collected by Francis P. Clark.

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...

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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.

Scope and Content Nineteen compact discs containing containing oral history interviews conducted by Michael Diebold representing the experience of Boys Haven / Boys and Girls Haven residents, counsellors, directors, and board members; digitized records and papers of Boys and Girls Haven, consisting of clippings and memorabilia representing the life of Fr James C. Maloney, founder of Boys Haven; correspondence from the late 1940s about the founding and early years; highlights of board meetings; newsletters;...

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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.

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