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A. James McAdams Collection of Eastern European Dissident Materials comprises 16 folders of materials relating to dissident groups and subject files on notable historians. Materials cover topics from East Germany pre-unification, the German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR), Hungarian anti-communist groups, Polish solidarity, and subject files on historians whose work relates to dissident groups. Formats include books, medals, serials, emblems, CDs, and subject files.

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A substantial collection of manuscript material, photographs, and printed matter relating to the All-American Girls Baseball League, a women's professional league active in the American Midwest from 1943 to 1954. Included is a set of nine loose-leaf notebooks compiled by South Bend Blue Sox executive Harold T. Dailey, comprising a kind of documentary history of the league.

Content Description The Arthur Erich Haas collection consists of materials created by Arthur Erich Haas, his wife Emma Beatrice Haas (nee Huber), their sons Arthur G. and George (Georg) Haas, and their granddaughter Patricia Haas-Cleveland. The collection also contains materials created by Arthur E. Haas' brother Otto Heinrich Haas, sister Greta Gerstenberger, and other family members.The collection primarily contains the personal papers and correspondence of Arthur E. Haas with his wife...

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...

Scope and Contents 1 album; 71 photographs accompanied by 16 pages of handwritten text in German. Album includes photographs of Bund Deutscher Mädel (German League Girls) during their hiking trip to Danzig (Gdansk, Poland) and the Baltic Sea from Friday, August 16th to Tuesday, September 3rd, 1940. The photographs are arranged in chronological order. The group went mostly by foot, train, and by steam ship on Vistula river from a camp site in a small village Kolodziejewo near the town of Pakosch (Pakosc,...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of the Charabanc Theatre Company, active from 1983-1995.The Charabanc Theatre was founded in Belfast, Northern Ireland by five actresses: Eleanor Methven, Marie Jones, Carol Scanlan (Moore), Brenda Winter, and Maureen McAuley. The company was a significant presence in Irsh theatre, and used improvisational script development in innovative ways to bring its plays to the community, as well as carrying out extensive reseaerch, interviewing community...

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Chiefly photographs of scenes and individuals associated with the University of Notre Dame or with the Congregation of Holy Cross.

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...

Scope and Contents The Dr. Gerald Gray Corona Rolling Devils Scrapbook Collection contains printed material and photographs documenting the origins of one of the first wheelchair basketball teams in the United States. The collection consists of an oversized scrapbook along with several folders of loose items. The assorted ephemera, photographs, and newspaper clippings in the collection document practices and games of the Rolling Devils and the plentiful press coverage the team received. Photographs...

Scope and Contents The Eduardo Galeano Photograph Collection on César Montes comprises four folders of materials relating to Eduardo Galeano’s article “With Guatemala’s Guerrillas” published in Ramparts in September of 1967. The collection contains images of César Montes and Marco Antonio Yon Sosa from an interview between Galeano and Montes in 1966. Additionally, a copy of Ramparts is included in the collection. Formats of the photographs include negatives, copied...

Scope and Contents This collection primarily consists of correspondence sent from Ethel Mannin to a number of her fans. Includes seventeen letters from Ethel Mannin to various correspondents including George Arthur Fleet (1899-1988), Victor Croxford, a “Mr. Threadgold,” and a “Cecil.” Additionally includes thirteen carbon copies of letters sent from George Arthur Fleet to Ethel Mannin, a postcard from Fleet to Mannin, a collage including the letter to Victor Croxford, a card from Mannin to “Cecil” and a...

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Portraits of Jeb Stuart, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and his consort Carlota, and General Don Manuel de Mier y Teran.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, documents and photographs which belonged to Friederike Deussing. Most relate to Deussing’s imprisonment in Theresienstadt concentration camp and notably include her Theresienstadt work permit, health certification, and the transport documents issued following her liberation. Correspondence chiefly consists of letters received by Friederike in Theresienstadt from her daughter, Edith, in Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany. Deussing family photographs...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal papers of boxer Gene Tunney. Materials cover his boxing career in the 1920s until his retirement in 1928, his marriage and honeymoon in 1928-29, and his charity work with youth groups in the 1930s and 1940s, especially the American Youth Group, of which he was chairman in 1940. The collection includes both personal and business correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks of his career, personal account books and calendars, and various boxing-related...

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The collection consists of manuscripts, letters, articles by Chesterton, as well as articles about him, photographs, and drawings. In addition to the material described in this finding aid, the collection also includes over 2,000 books and periodicals that have been cataloged separately.

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 documents the activities of Hugo Achugar. It contains records of Achugar's professional and academic career, including articles and article drafts; notes; lecture materials; poetry; conference materials; research files; notebooks; calendars; and Achugar's personal library. Also included with the collection are correspondence, photographs, and Achugar's own collegiate coursework. Significant topics represented in these files are poetry; Blanca Luz Brum (1905-1985); and Latin...

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This artificial collection consists of theatre programs, totaling approximately 600 items, created by theatres and theatre companies throughout Ireland. Materials include programs, black-and-white photographs, and pamphlets.

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...

Scope and Contents Jane L. Vache United States Women’s Lacrosse Association British Touring Team Scrapbook comprises disbound scrapbook pages documenting the 1951 United States women’s lacrosse team’s trip to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Contents include programs, correspondence, clippings, matchbooks, photographs, pins, maps, ticket stubs, forms, and other ephemera. Many photographs are action shots from matches and practices, as well as images relating to locations visited during the tour. Additionally,...

Scope and Contents This collection primarily consists of the personal papers, letters, manuscripts, notes, and ephemera of John Joseph “J.J.” “Sceilg” O’Kelly in the years 1916-1948. Also included are Seán Óg O’Kelly’s notes and letters on various mid-century Irish labor disputes. Materials include letters, notes, speeches, drafts, manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, booklets, short stories, ballads, poems, telegrams, letters of condolences, sympathy cards, mass cards, administrative minutes, administrative...

Scope and Contents The John Carrington Cross Papers consist of typescript plays and short stories created by Cross while a graduate student in the dramatic arts department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A prolific writer who kept a wide circle of friends, Cross wrote regularly to friends and former classmates, some of whom were serving in the military during World War II. The collection contains many letters, from both male and female service members, that discuss work and living...

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Photographs of his sculpture, including statues of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Jerome, St. Joan of Arc, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Augustine, St. Patrick, and John Henry Cardinal Newman; photographs of Notre Dame sculptors John J. Bednar, C.S.C., and Eugene Kormendi; and photographs of studio scenes.

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Photographs from the "Old Faces -- New Places" column in the Notre Dame Alumnus by John Wilson, CSC.

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Chiefly photographs of World War I.

Scope and Contents The Mae Faggs ephemera collection consists of printed materials and ephemeral items collected by African American women’s track and field athlete Mae Faggs in the 1950s and 1960s. The collection contains items related to her college career at Tennessee A&I University, an Historically Black College and University; items documenting her participation in track events as a member of the United States national team, including the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics, the 1955 Pan American Games in...

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Photos of Martin J. Gillen, his family graves, John F. O'Hara, CSC, William A. McGuire, the Land O'Lakes property in Wisconsin, and various buildings at Notre Dame.