Hesburgh Libraries

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Obituary book of deceased brothers (1822-1878); last wills of many brothers (1843-1885); carbon copy of a compilation of notes on the brothers (1842-1945); register of brothers at Notre Dame (1842-1850); list of brothers associated with Notre Dame (1923-1948); correspondence and personal documents of various brothers.

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Documents from the archives of the Canadian Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross having to do with the general history of the Congregation, including foundations in Europe, America, and India, and associated congregations of brothers and sisters.

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Collected digital data, photographs and printed material having to do with the priests, brothers, and sisters of Holy Cross.

Scope and Content Papers of the founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Father Basil Anthony Moreau; reports of Fathers Edward Sorin and William Corby to the superior general of the congregation concerning the affairs of the University of Notre Dame; material concerning the history and role of Holy Cross Brothers and Sisters at Notre Dame; minutes and deliberations of provincial meetings; weight receipts and minutes from the Notre Dame Farm Committee; reports on schools and missions operated by the...

Scope and Content Material on seminary life gathered in 1965 by the Commission on Province Education (COPE), Congregation of Holy Cross, Province of Indiana, including manuals for students at the Maryknoll Seminary in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and rules and records from the Holy Cross and Moreau Seminaries in Notre Dame, Indiana. Also information on seminary life from St. Meinrad Seminary in St. Meinrad, Indiana, the Holy Cross Foreign Mission Seminary in Washington, D.C., Holy Cross College in...

Scope and Content Records and papers from the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross (CSC); representing the careers of Fr. Edward Sorin 1830-1896; Fr. Alexis Granger 1832-1893; Fr. William Corby 1858-1897; Fr. John A. Zahm 1873-1922; and the provincial administrations of Fr. Andrew Morrissey 1906-1920; Fr. Charles O'Donnell 1920-1926; Fr. George Finnigan 1926-1927; Fr. James Burns 1927-1938; and Fr. Thomas Steiner 1938-1950. Also 1841-1926 records of the Notre Dame CSC Community; 1840-1982...

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Correspondence of Holy Cross fathers Peter P. Cooney, William Corby, James M. Dillon, Gilbert Francais, Julius A. Freré, and Basil Anthony Moreau; last wills (1844- 1861), manuscripts of poems, sermons, and speeches, instructions from superiors, military service records, notebooks, and other papers of many Holy Cross priests at Notre Dame.

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Correspondence, reports, constitutions, directories, publications, documentation of meetings, records of activities and institutions, representing the general adminstration of the congregation as it interacted with its provinces, institutions, and members, and with bishops and the Vatican.

Scope and Content Records (1957-1994; bulk 1970-1992) of the Consortium Perfectae Caritatis: consisting of bylaws, constitutions, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, agenda, reports, surveys, interviews, articles, clippings, pamphlets, books, programs, liturgies, photographs, and audio tapes; documenting the development of the Consortium, the actions of its administrative board, its general assemblies, and other activities; including material on issues and events of interest to the Consortium (such as...

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Records of the Consultation on Common Texts, arranged primarily chronologically according to year, consist of correspondence, memoranda, minutes and drafts of the Divine Office, Psalms, Lectionary, and Ecumenical Prayer Services.

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Letters, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, photocopies, printed matter, official documents, genealogies, memoirs, historical sketches, and other material representing the lives of the Coquillards and Volls.

This preliminary inventory is based on the list of items appended to the deed of gift. Missing item numbers belong to items that were not donated to the Notre Dame Archives.

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Three manuscript journals and albums kept by female members of the Corkins family of Vermont and Massachusetts. Included is a personal journal of Sarah Corkins Towslee (1833-1898), describing her years as an operative in the mills of the Connecticut River Valley.

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Two notebooks containing essays, instructions, and other writings on religion and theology that Delahunty evidently wrote after arriving at Notre Dame; and a legal statement by James A. Burns, CSC, concerning Delahunty's character and his benefaction to Holy Cross College, Washington, D.C.

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Several of his religious publications; a copy of "The Hagerty Family History," 1972; and manuscripts of two essays by Hagerty, "The Problem of Evil" and "A Course of Apologetics".

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Correspondence, Board meeting files, research files, conference files, subject files, Vatican II Council Daybooks, surveys, reports, press releases, Corpus directories, circulars, bulletins, newsletters, Priestly Ministry USA, and other printed material.

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A manuscript logbook documenting voyages of the American whalers Corvo and Enterprise, from 6 October 1840 to 17 May 1841.

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This collection consists of college football Cotton Bowl programs. The programs typically contain pictures, articles, and statistics about the players on the teams playing in the Cotton Bowl. Most programs also include pictures and information about coaches, other team personnel, and Cotton Bowl administrators, data and statistics about the participating schools, and advertisements. The programs tend to become longer and more substantial through the years. Formats include programs.

Scope and Contents Papers donated by William C. Moran dating from 1962, consisting of three documents and an unpublished diary concerning the Peruvian Project of the Council for the International Lay Apostolate (CILA) with entries by William C. Moran, Thomas J. Schlereth, P. Barry Baldwin, and Thomas Bishop; papers donated by Margaret Kelly Davenport dating from 1962, including a CILA membership card, an identification card from the Gran Mision de la Ciudad de Mexico, a flier for bull fights in Plaza Mexico,...

Scope and Contents In 2022, the University of Notre Dame sponsored an oral history project to document the campus community’s experience during the COVID-19 pandemic.The resulting collection includes audio recordings of 85 oral history interviews conducted with administrators, faculty, staff, and students about the University of Notre Dame’s response to, and the campus community’s experience of, the pandemic. A signed consent form and full interview transcription accompanies each recording. The...

Scope and Content Correspondence between Smith and Lee Tavis, 1970s; annual reports of Aviation Corporation (AVOCO), 1930-1935, and American Airlines, 1966-1975; a financial analysis of American Airlines and its predecessor companies by Smith, 1920s-1975; copies of correspondence and advertising memos of Smith, 1948-1956; articles and clippings about Smith, 1940s-1970s; photocopies of the Aircraft Yearbook, 1926-1932; transcripts and audio tapes of interviews of Smith by Tavis, 1970s; a book-length manuscript...

Scope and Content Documents on the history of CRISPAZ; legal documents, reports and correspondence regarding the situation in El Salvador between the period of 1980-2000; correspondence letters between CRISPAZ members; original photographs from shootings and massacres in El Salvador during the civil war; original and copies of news articles concerning the civil war, injustices in El Salvador, and CRISPAZ between the period of 1975-2001; newsletters from CRISPAZ volunteers in El Salvador; information on issues...

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A collection of photographs of Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929) activists and martyrs with accompanying semi-hagiographic text describing the lives, devotion, and deaths of each individual

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A collection of postcards and photographs of Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929) martyrs. Portrait-style images of high-profile martyrs, many of whom have been canonized or beatified by the Catholic Church, predominate, though the collection also includes images of executions and funeral processions.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of materials forming a record of Cristina Peri Rossi's personal and professional career. Included are drafts of Peri Rossi's fiction and poetry, primarily unpublished; manuscripts and notebooks of Peri Rossi's writings; and clippings of her nonfiction wors from newspapers and magazines. There is also professional and personal correspondence, personal photographs, and academic works on Peri Rossi's writings, such as theses and dissertations. The collection also...

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Working files from Sally Cunneen's 1965 survey of readers of Cross Currents magazine; consisting of the coding book, notebooks, completed survey questionnaires, and computer printouts.

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A collection of cards and prints published by Cuala Press along with catalogs and related ephemera.

Scope and Contents This small collection consists of legal documents and correspondence related to Curt Flood’s lawsuit, Flood v. Kuhn against Major League baseball’s reserve clause in the early 1970s. The legal documents include official court papers from the Appellate Court case in the Second Circuit of Appeals (1971) and the Supreme Court decision (1972) against Flood. The correspondence largely consists of letters to and from the law firms Arnold & Porter and Wilkie, Farr, &...

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Records of Notre Dame's Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, including audio-visual material, photographs and digital data.

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Sixteen daguerreotypes and ambrotypes (early photographs), most of them portraits.

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Research notes generated by work on her master's thesis, "James F. Edwards Pioneer Archivist of Catholic Church History of America" (1958); with correspondence between Sister Tambola and the Notre Dame Archives.