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Scrapbooks

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Blank books or albums designed so that a variety of items may be affixed to the pages, including photographs, clippings, and other memorabilia.

Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:

Joe Wilman Bowling Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10035
Content Description The Joe Wilman Bowling Papers consists of material collected by Hall of Fame professional bowler, bowling writer, and bowling commentator Joe Wilman (1905-1969). 15 scrapbooks document Wilman's bowling career from 1920 through 1957. The earlier scrapbooks also contain information about Wilman's baseball and boxing careers. The scrapbooks mostly contain newspaper and magazine clippings, as well as, smaller amounts of ephemera, photographs, and correspondence. Eight boxes of materials document...
Dates: 1906-1970

John A. O'Brien Scrapbook

 Fonds
Identifier: JAB
Scope and Content

Scrapbook concerning American Catholicism containing many articles from Boston-area newspapers.

Dates: 1877-1880.

John Carrington Cross Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSN/MN 10065
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...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1860-2000

John DeWitt Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1003
Content Description The primary item in this collection is one personal scrapbook kept by Princeton University football player John R. DeWitt during his time on the team from 1901-1903. The scrapbook includes news clippings, ephemera, photographs, telegrams, and other items. The collection also includes a few loose items. Materials in the scrapbook are chronologically arranged, and cover the 1902 and 1903 football seasons (with emphasis on the 1903 victory over Yale) and the 1903 and 1904 seasons in track and...
Dates: 1899-1931; Majority of material found within 1902-1904

Joseph Maria Finotti Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: FIN
Scope and Content

Five letters to Finotti (1855-1877), among them one concerning the exhumation of Bishop Frederic Baraga, one concerning the Society of California Pioneers, and one concerning the school question; and scrapbooks of political cartoons, including caricatures of Jefferson Davis, and newspaper clippings on the Civil War, popular poetry, and Catholicism.

Dates: 1844-1881.

Julia Merkel Papers

 Collection
Identifier: JUM
Abstract

Ephemera and photographs collected by Julia Merkel during her time as a student at University of Notre Dame, 1985 to 1988. Merkel was a founding member of the university’s Women’s Cross-Country (WCC) team.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1984-1988; 1984-2025

Lewis J. Murphy Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: LJM
Scope and Content

Scrapbooks, books, a photograph, and memorabilia dating from the 1930s; a few letters, essays, and other material from the 1950s.

Dates: 1930s-1950s.

Louis J. Papas Scrapbook

 Fonds
Identifier: PAP
Scope and Content

Scrapbook prepared by Papas for presentation to the Joseph Kennedy family on the 23rd anniversary of the death of Joseph Kennedy, Jr. Papas was in the same WWII squadron as Joseph Kennedy Jr. and was also his roommate, 1943- 1944. Scrapbook includes pictures of Papas with Kennedy and correspondence with Joseph Kennedy, Sr., Rose Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Edward Kennedy, 1967-1969.

Dates: 1943-1969.

Judge Daniel A. Manion Papers

 Collection
Identifier: JDM
Scope and Contents This collection documents Manion’s personal life, education, and career as a lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Materials include family correspondence, family photographs, and materials related to Manion Canyon Arabians; correspondence to and from family and friends during attendance at Culver Military Academy, the University of Notre Dame, and military service in Vietnam; materials documenting Manion’s...
Dates: 1896-2022

Manion nomination scrapbook, 1986 - 2000

 File — Box JDM 6: Series JDM, Folder: 20
Identifier: JDM 6/20

Mid-Twentieth Century Football Scrapbooks Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_1011
Content Description This collection consists of 21 scrapbooks in loose-leaf binders about college and professional football in the years after World War Two. Spanning the years from 1946 to 1957, the scrapbooks mostly contain newspaper clippings, but also include magazine articles, programs, and game charts. The scrapbooks cover football on a national scale, though many scrapbook have an on pro and college teams from California and on the University of Notre Dame. The scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown...
Dates: 1946-1957

Mid-Twentieth Century New York City College Basketball Scrapbook

 Item — 1: [Barcode: 00000039204383]
Identifier: MSSP_5009
Content Description A scrapbook of newspaper clippings about men's basketball derived from mainly New York City newspapers. A few clippings are from glossy publications like programs, magazines, or guidebooks. The vast majority of clippings consist of newspaper photographs of basketball teams, players, and coaches. Most images are posed with a few action shots. There are only a small number of clipped articles. There are a few clippings about other levels of basketball, including high school basketball. Most of...
Dates: c. 1935-1950

Mike Brady Professional Golf Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10030
Content Description

The primary item in this collection is a scrapbook kept by professional golfer Mike Brady (1887-1972). The scrapbook documents his professional golf career from the 1900s until the 1920s, as well as his induction into the PGA Hall of Fame in 1960. The scrapbook primarily contains newspaper and magazines clippings about his competitions, but the collection also includes some photographs, and pieces of ephemera.

Dates: 1908-1968

Nat Fleischer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2003
Scope and Contents The Fleischer collection includes professional and some personal papers of boxing writer and publisher Nat Fleischer. Most prevalent are carbon-copy typescripts of Fleischer's articles, serialized features, and books. There are manuscripts or manuscript drafts, whole or partial, relating to many of his published books, including biographies of boxers John L. Sullivan, James J. Corbett, Terry McGovern, Jack McAuliffe, Gene Tunney, and Jack Dempsey (among others). There are also manuscripts...
Dates: circa 1910-1967

Nineteenth Century Baseball Publications Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10037
Content Description This collections consists of three scrapbooks (one disbound) with clippings from baseball publications compiled by an unknown person or unknown people during the late nineteenth century. The scrapbooks contains news clippings from major weekly sporting publications like Sporting Life, the Sporting Times, Mirror of Sports, and, significantly, the short-lived National Daily Baseball Gazette from the spring of 1887. The scrapbooks also include clippings from major metropolitan newspapers mostly...
Dates: 1870-1887

Norbert Engels Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: ENG
Scope and Content

Personal and professional correspondence, 1933-1976; drafts of poetry; copies of publications, 1927-1972; clippings concerning Engels and his family; teaching records; maps from his Wisconsin property and family trips; scrapbooks; and photographs.

Dates: 1926-1976.

Odds and Ends of Boxing Scrapbook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BOX_750
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 75 scrapbooks mostly covering professional boxing with some amateur boxing content, as well. The scrapbooks were compiled by an unknown person and contain clippings dating from the 1920s through the 1970s. Sources include Detroit daily newspapers, The National Police Gazette, and a variety of other weekly and monthly magazines but citations are rarely included. The collection is divided into several roughly chronological, multi-volume series. 21 volumes focus...
Dates: c. 1928-1974

Parish and Institutional Records Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: PIC
Scope and Content Miscellaneous original and transcribed records of various Catholic parishes, orphanages, schools, and cemeteries in Illinois (4 churches and institutions), Indiana (7), Kentucky (more than 50), Michigan (5), Missouri (2), Pennsylvania (1), and Wisconsin (1). There are also records of one Jewish Synagogue (Temple Beth-El, South Bend, Indiana). Baptismal, confirmation, marriage, and death registers; gravestone inscriptions; membership lists; pew rent account books; censuses;...
Dates: 1749-1979

Paul Martin Dillon Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: DIL
Scope and Content

Correspondence, legal documents, manuscripts of articles, and two scrapbooks, one with clippings of editorials he wrote and the other detailing the 1930 concert season at the Ravinia, Illinois.

Dates: 1925-1960.

Peter C. Reilly Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: ZCU
Scope and Content

Reilly's Notre Dame file, consisting of photographs of Notre Dame: buildings, personalities, and events; and letters, 1950-1957, mainly transmitting the photographs; with a few letters between Notre Dame and his son, Peter C. Reilly, Jr. Also a typewritten biographical sketch and copy of the sermon delivered by James E. Norton at the funeral of Peter C. Reilly; a photograph of Reilly; copies of Reilly's obituaries; and clippings about Reilly.

Dates: 1946-1957.

Police Gazette Sports Clippings Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 2005
Abstract

A large disbound scrapbook of sports-related clippings, mostly pictorial, from The National Police Gazette, The Illustrated Police News, and The New York Illustrated News. Much of the material consists of engraved portraits of boxers of the 1880s and 1890s.

Dates: circa 1883 - circa 1920; Majority of material found within ( ca. 1883-ca. 1896)

Prof. Adelard P. Demers Roller Skating Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP_10028
Content Description This collection includes the personal archive of Prof. Adelard P. Demers (1863-1933), a well-known professional champion and trick roller skater in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries. Two scrapbooks that mainly include clippings and ephemera document his roller skating exploits. One scrapbook includes material about his roller skating exhibitions in the United States and Canada in the 1800s and the first decade of the twentieth century. The second scrapbook documents...
Dates: 1883-1949

Red Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSSP 10061
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the professional and personal papers of Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith. It includes: Smith's clipped copies of his printed columns, mostly 1954-1982; newspapers and magazines with pieces by or about Smith; clipped columns of Stanley Woodward and Joe H. Palmer; manuscripts and/or proofs of several of Smith's books; an accumulation of around 125 manuscript letters preserved by Smith, including examples signed by Melvin Belli, ...
Dates: 1888 - 2010; Majority of material found in 1945-1982

Rubén Darío Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0092
Scope and Contents The Rubén Darío Collection is a collection of writings and personal materials of Rubén Darío. The majority of the collection consists of clippings written by Darío, as well as clippings written about Darío, covering a hundred-year span. Included in his personal papers are photographs, correspondence, and manuscripts. Also included in the collection is a series of research materials about Darío compiled by an unknown researcher. Significant topics include Nicaraguan poets, history, and...
Dates: 1881-1982

Rudi Holzapfel Research Collection on James Clarence Mangan

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/IR 2720
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...
Dates: 1903-1934, 1953-1979, 1990-1996, undated

Ruhleben Camp Magazine Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3829
Abstract

Two-volume scrapbook containing original drawings and text for In Ruhleben Camp (1915) and The Ruhleben Camp Magazine (1916-1917) compiled possibly for postwar publication. The satirical drawings and writings deal with life of British civilians interned in a German prisoner camp in Ruhleben, Germany. Two bound volumes of the published camp magazine accompany the scrapbook.

Dates: 1915-1917