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Archdiocese of Dubuque Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: ADU
Scope and Content

Letters sent by Bishops Loras and Hennessy; manuscripts of lectures by Bishop Loras; drawings of saints for the Dubuque Cathedral; and a Denkschrift of Adam Handl, Richmond (Washington County), Iowa, 1861.

Dates: 1832-1950.

Catholic Central Verein of America Records

 Fonds
Identifier: CCV
Scope and Content Correspondence files from the Central Bureau, most of them involving Frederick P. Kenkel and dating from his term as director (1908-1952); concerning Central Verein business and Catholic topics of the day, including a large file on anti-Catholic speakers claiming to be ex-priests and nuns. Correspondents include John J. Cochran, Brother Joseph Dutton, Mary Filser Lohr, Joseph Matt, John Rothensteiner, and George Shuster, and many prominent German Catholics. Microfilm contains...
Dates: 1826-1972 (bulk 1908-1952).

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)

Diocese of Natchez Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: DNT
Scope and Content

Six letters received by Bishop John Chanche (1852-1853); three letters received by Bishop James O. Van de Velde (1855); three letters sent by Bishop William Henry Elder (1861-1864) and a document in Elder's hand, dating from the 1870s, characterizing the Society of the Knights of the Legion of Honor as a secret society; clippings of pastoral letters and articles by Elder (1873-1881); and a few other letters and clippings.

In English, French, German, and Latin.

Dates: 1849-1891.

Edmond J. Schmitt Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: SCT
Scope and Content Correspondence; historical and religious writings; and research and reference files on Bishop Simon Bruté, Father Stephen T. Badin, Girolamo Savonarola, early missions in Mexican America, Indiana Catholic history, and the Benedictine order in the United States. Also Schmitt's collection of autograph letters, calling cards, and signatures of authors, British and American legislators, presidents of the United States, archbishops, and cardinals (1777-1893). The papers of Father...
Dates: 1777-1901 (bulk 1890-1901).

George Bornemann Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: BNM
Scope and Content

Correspondence, notes, church documents, and printed material; concerning Bornemann's work as a leader of the German American Catholic Congresses and his interest in organizations of German American Catholics such as the Staatsverband Societies of Pennsylvania and Ohio, the Catholic Central Verein, and the Amerikanish Deutschen Priester Vereins. Correspondents include J.N. Enzlberger, William Faerber, Joseph Schroeder, and bishops Leo Haid, OSB, and P.J. Hurth, CSC.

Dates: 1889-1925.

Joseph Selinger Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: SEL
Scope and Content Chiefly correspondence, including letters written by Selinger during his years as a student at the North American College in Rome and as a teacher at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee to Rev. Anton Pauk of St. Louis; letters from H.J. Heuser, O.J.S. Hoog, and Bede Maler, OSB, some of them concerning Selinger's views on agnosticism; letters from rectors of the Catholic University of America John J. Keane, D.J. O'Connell, and Thomas J. Conaty; and letters from M. Cardinal Faulhaber, A....
Dates: 1878-1936.

Ludwigs-Verein Records

 Fonds
Identifier: LUD
Scope and Content Five reels of letters from the United States to the Ludwig Mission Society and two reels of the society's magazine, Annalen der Glaubensverbreitung, volumes one through twenty-one (1848-1868), in which many of the letters were published. Correspondents include Rev. Franz Xaver Weninger, bishops Frederick Baraga, Egidius Jünger, Joseph Melcher, Ignatius Mrak, Michael O'Connor, Maurice de Saint-Palais, Rupert Seidenbusch, OSB, John Timon, CM, Richard V. Whelan, and others. Most...
Dates: 1831-1875.

Willis D. Nutting Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: WDN
Scope and Content

Drafts of books, articles, lectures, speeches (1920-1975); notes for lectures and projects (1918-1975); correspondence (1938-1975); and printed material (1932-1960).

Dates: 1918-1975

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