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Graves Family Shipping Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0506
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...
Dates:
1812-1877; Majority of material found in 1850-1875
Sydney Hobart Ball and Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 0513
Scope and Contents
The collection documents both the personal life and the professional activities of Sydney Hobart Ball. It includes more than 1,600 of Ball's letters, mainly written to family members while on mining trips around the world, as well as over 1,000 photos taken by Ball during these trips. There are also reports, articles and notes written by Ball on mining, as well as maps of places he visited. Also present in the collection is correspondence belonging to Ball's wife Mary, and to his daughters...
Dates:
1885 – 1991; Majority of material found in 1905 – 1949
Richards and Lincoln Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSN/EA 0510
Abstract
A collection of over 150 personal and professional letters written to, from, or between members of the Richards and Lincoln families of Massachusetts and Illinois, 1754 to 1880. Also present are 60 related documents, including manuscripts, financial records, land records, probate records, and other materials.
Dates:
1754-1880 (bulk 1792-1880)
Thomas Ewing Family Papers
Fonds
Identifier: EWI
Scope and Content
Correspondence, letters, books, ledgers, and docket book of Thomas Ewing; correspondence of his wife Maria (Boyle) Ewing; letters and papers of Philemon B. Ewing, his sisters, his wife, Maria Rebecca (Gillespie) Ewing, and members of her family: her sister Eliza Maria Gillespie (i.e., Mother Angela), her brother, Neal Gillespie, her mother, Madeline Miers Phelan, and her stepfather, William Phelan. Also Phelan estate papers, diaries, sermons by Father Neal Gillespie, correspondence and...
Dates:
1815-1905
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
Fonds
Identifier: CMM
Scope and Content
Miscellaneous manuscripts assembled by the archives.
Dates:
1770-1987
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Edward Sorin Papers
Collection
Identifier: SOR
Scope and Content
Correspondence or copies of correspondence from Stephen T. Badin, Julian Benoit, and various American bishops regarding local and university legal and religious matters; letters to Vicar General Augustus Mary Martin at Terre Haute, Indiana, and Saint Theodore Guerin, Mother Superior of the Sisters of Providence at St. Mary of the Woods, Indiana; writings, meditations, instructions; a statement by Sorin on the relationship between the sisters at Notre Dame and those at St. Mary's College...
Dates:
1836 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1839 - 1893
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
James J. Norris Papers
Fonds
Identifier: NOR
Scope and Content
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and minutes relating to his work with War Relief Services -- National Catholic Welfare Conference (later Catholic Relief Services -- United States Catholic Conference), his chairmanship of the International Catholic Migration Commission, and his participation in the Second Vatican Council. Other organizations reflected in his papers include Caritas Internationalis, International Working Group for Socio-Economic Development (CIDSE), Cor Unum Council, the...
Dates:
1940s-1976
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Jack Pfefer Wrestling Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS/PFEFER
Scope and Contents
The Jack Pfefer Wrestling Collection comprises more than 120 cubic feet of materials accumulated by Pfefer over a 45-year promotional and managerial career in professional wrestling, 1924-1969. Types of materials especially well represented include business and financial records; letters and telegrams; photographs; posters, handbills, and other publicity graphics; newspaper and magazine clippings; and wrestling programs and periodicals. Pfefer himself referred to these items, with...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1924-1969; 1913-1974, 1999-2000, 2018
Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird Collection
Collection
Identifier: LOB
Scope and Contents
Documents created between 1856 and 1947 and collected by multiple individuals and institutions with connections to the town of Harbor Springs, Michigan, and surrounding communities. The bulk of the collection documents the efforts of Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird to substantiate and defend claims to land ownership and annuities on behalf of Odawa and Ojibwa bands in Little Traverse Bay and nearby communities, stipulated in treaties signed with the United States government in 1836...
Dates:
1856 - 1947
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Notre Dame: Snite Museum of Art
Record Group
Identifier: ART
Scope and Contents
Records of Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art, with many photographs, some VHS video tapes, and hundreds of printed items having to do with Ivan Mestrovic and his work as an artist.
Dates:
1902-1989
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
Congregation of Holy Cross Collection
Fonds
Identifier: CSC
Scope and Content
Collected digital data, photographs and printed material having to do with the priests, brothers, and sisters of Holy Cross.
Dates:
1843-2011
Found in:
University of Notre Dame Archives
John M. Jackson Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSN/CW 5017
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 44 letters from John M. Jackson to his family during the Civil War. With one exception, the letters in this group were addressed to members of Jackson's immediate family — most commonly, to his mother or sisters. The four earliest (September and October 1862) were written from Camp Abraham Lincoln in Portland, Maine, where the 23rd Maine was organized. There follow 12 letters (11 dated from October 1862 to April 1863, and one without date) written from the Potomac...
Dates:
1862-1864