Content Description A pair of vernacular photograph albums associated with John H. Senior of Philadelphia. Most images depict athletic, leisure, and recreational activities around the Philadelphia with Senior and his friends. The images tend to show either scenic views of the natural landscape, or activities like camping, hiking, fishing, swimming, and many athletic sports, especially track and field. Senior and his friends were members of a Boys Club track team. There are also six views of the 1910 Penn...

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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.

Content Description The Marvin “Atomic” Mercer Papers comprises 23 folders relating to the professional wrestling careers of Marvin Mercer (Marvin K. Gehman) and his brother, Jim Mercer (Jesse Mercer Gehman). Included in the collection are promotional photographs, flyers, publicity materials, and personal notes related to wrestling. The collection also includes promotional materials and correspondence relating to wrestler Gene Stanlee and strongman Earle E. Liederman. Formats include photographs, postcards,...

Scope and Contents This collection chiefly consists of the correspondence of Mary Taussig Hall. Early letters (circa 1920s) to and from Mary Taussig Hall frequently concern her family, travels, and studies. Later (1930s-) topics of note include her family and social life, travels, and growing interest in social work and political causes. Most correspondence is with family and friends though professional correspondence is also present. Mary’s time at Hull House is well-described, as is a Depression-era job...

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Ephemera, papers, and photographs collected by Michael Murray '68 regarding the Notre Dame Rowing Club, of which he was a founding member.

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Photographs taken by Brother Pascal Tomaszewski, CSC, with scenes of Notre Dame football games, quadrangles, buildings, statues, and people.

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Photos attributed to Father Louis Baroux. Locations include Cadillac, Silver Creek, Hartford, Montague, and Ecorse, Michigan.

Scope and Contents The bulk of the Reggie Brown Football Coaching Papers consist of a group of notebooks compiled by football coach Reginald W. P. "Reggie" Brown. Five notebooks (1904, 1905, 1905, 1911, and 1914) document Brown’s years as an assistant coach at Harvard University. One notebook (1928) comes from his stint as the head football coach at Boston University. The 1904 and 1905 notebooks chronicle the events of those Harvard seasons through clippings, practice notes, games notes, play diagrams, game...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of María A. Díaz de Guerra--a Uruguayan historian--in her research on the city of Maldonado, Uruguay, the surrounding region, its inhabitants and public services such as libraries and schools. It contains administrative records of the city of Maldonado, including reports, committee proceedings, invoices, and publications; Diaz’s notes and compiled research files; correspondence of both Diaz and citizens of Maldonado; and articles by Diaz or about...

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This is a collection of photographs taken by Richard (Dick) Stevens consisting of black and white negatives, contact sheets, and prints. The images depict University events, student life, campus buildings, academics, sporting events, alumni events, faculty, staff, and other institutional departments. It also includes some personal photographs of the Stevens' family.

Scope and Contents The Robert J. Hubbard and Family Photograph Album comprises photographs of the Hubbard family, ministers, American Civil War soldiers, commercial photographs, and more. The majority of images are dated between 1860-1869, with persons primarily being identified in pencil. The album includes the following family members, Robert J. Hubbard (1830-1904), Frederick Hubbard (1817-1895), Mary Hubbard Litchfield (1825-1856), Caroline Hubbard Wolcott (1828-1867), Mary Wolcott (1859-1941),...

Scope and Contents Papers related to the professional football career of Roger Ellis. Materials include original contracts from the American Football League, the National Football League, and the Canadian Football League; correspondence and ephemera from his playing days from several teams including the New York Giants, New York Titans, New York Jets, the Oakland Area Football Club, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and the Montreal Alouette. The correspondence documents the daily life of a professional football...

Scope and Contents The collection of Rudi Holzapfel on James Clarence Mangan includes Holzapfel’s notes, drafts, collected correspondence, publications and clippings of Mangan’s published work. Rudi Holzapfel’s bibliography, James Clarence Mangan: A Check List of Printed and Other Sources (1969), was the most complete bibliography of Mangan until Jacque Chuto’s James Clarence Mangan: A Bibliography ( 1999). Holzapfel’s work on Mangan continued over many...

Content Description Photograph Album with 81 photographic prints tipped in. The album inside front cover bears the name Ruth Fay McLean, but little information is known about her. The album includes 37 images taken at the Olympic Summer Games of 1912 held in Stockholm, Sweden. Among the images are portraits and action shots relating to events in tennis, gymnastics, shooting, diving, swimming, and, most notably, athletics. Some are souvenir photos (including real-photo postcards) and some are vernacular photos...

Scope and Contents The Santos Family Professional Wrestling Papers comprises nine boxes and one oversize box of materials collected by Tony Santos and his family relating to professional wrestling primarily from the 1950-1960s. The collection contains materials relating but not limited to subject files, correspondence, posters and promotional materials, magazines, financial information, and printing plates. Subject files primarily contain photographs and embossed mat boards used for printing and creating...

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Nine black-and-white prints dating from 1898, most of them showing the 69th Regiment New York Infantry, a few of them showing Catholic chaplains saying Mass for the troops.

Content Description One photograph album documenting the X. Slet (10th All-Sokol Gathering) gymnastic and physical education exhibition in Prague's Strahov Stadium in 1938. The photographs depict adults, mostly men with some women, and children participating in group synchronized physical education and gymnastic routines and other sports and activities, including parades. There are some group photographs of participants and spectators. Most photos measure 2.25 x 2.25 inches with a few larger images measuring...

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...

Content Description The Ted Coy Papers document the football career and life of Edward H. "Ted" Coy (1888-1935), best known for being a two-time All-American football player at Yale University. One scrapbooks and two photo albums contain materials, including photographs, correspondence, school records and ephemera, related to Coy's athletic, academic, and social activities at the Hotchkiss School. One scrapbook includes mainly newspaper clippings documents the 1909 Yale football season. One scrapbook contains...

Scope and Contents One partially-filled photograph album consisting of 31 18 x 25 cm black and white reproduction photo prints taken by an unnamed photographer. Photos depict scenes of late 19th century Irish tenant evictions. Each has been captioned by hand in ink. The first 20 photos document scenes from the Vandeleur evictions which took place in Kilrush, County Clare. The remainder document scenes of evictions in other Irish counties. Plates depict: Soldiers and R.I.C. officers in camp; Group...

Scope and Contents This collection includes 438 photographs of international, state, and unidentified wheelchair sports competitions and unidentified wheelchair athletes in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Pictured competitions include the second biennial 1969 Pan American Wheelchair Games held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the 1972 Paralympic Games held in Heidelberg, Germany, the 1973 and 1974 third and fourth Ohio Wheelchair Games competitions, and several other unidentified competitions. Many different sports...

Scope and Contents This collection centers on the familial correspondence of Clifford Wicker Buydden, Wade James Buydden, Rachel Reno Wicker, and other members of the Wicker and Buydden families in the early twentieth century. Over a third of the collection is devoted to courtship correspondence between Clifford Wicker Buydden and Wade James Buydden. Of particular note within the collection are Clifford’s manuscript on health and food, Wade’s college application materials, Wade’s letters from Masonic...

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Collection consists of ephemera materials relating to World War II in Eastern Europe.