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Anniversary booklets, yearbooks, necrologies, directories, ordos, statutes, books, pamphlets, clippings, and other printed material pertaining to dioceses and archdioceses in the United States; providing information on ecclesiastical sees, Catholic institutions, religious education, episcopal appointments, and ordinations; with biographies of priests diocesan histories, parish histories, and diocesan school board reports.

Scope and Content Correspondence of Bishops Rappe, Gilmour, and Horstmann, with documents concerning the resignation of Bishop Rappe, and a pastoral letter by Bishop Schrembs (22 October 1922); and transcripts of letters received by Fr. Pfeil, many from Bishop Joseph Bernard Dolbing. Also pamphlets, including a sketch of the history of Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Sandusky, and newspaper clippings, including articles by Bishop Gilmour, articles concerning him and other bishops, and articles on...

Scope and Content Cash book for St. Patrick's Church, Erie, 1849-1864; fragment of a note signed by Tobias Mullen, third bishop of Erie. Also clippings, including one about the diocese of Erie as it was in 1838; four regarding the life and death of Thomas Carroll, pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Oil City, Pennsylvania, and benefactor of the University of Notre Dame through his donation for the construction of the grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes and through a bequest from his estate; and others...

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Six letters received by Bishop John Chanche (1852-1853); three letters received by Bishop James O. Van de Velde (1855); three letters sent by Bishop William Henry Elder (1861-1864) and a document in Elder's hand, dating from the 1870s, characterizing the Society of the Knights of the Legion of Honor as a secret society; clippings of pastoral letters and articles by Elder (1873-1881); and a few other letters and clippings.

In English, French, German, and Latin.

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Photostats of letters from Lamy to Bishop Zubiria and from Martinez and Taladrid; two autograph letters from Lamy to Father Thomas A. Hayes, and one autograph letter to John O'Kane Murray, Catholic historian; a manuscript and a printed copy of Lamy's farewell address of August 26, 1885; two photos of Lamy and several newspaper clippings.

Additional Lamy papers may be found in the New Orleans and Cincinnati collections.

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Clippings concerning diocesan affairs, 1872-1879, including clippings of the pastoral letters of Richard Whelan and John Joseph Kain; and photostats of letters received by Mother M. de Chantal, Superior of the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Joseph's Academy in Wheeling (1874- 1875, 1895).

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Correspondence; manuscripts of articles and his book The Emerging Layman (1962); research files of clippings, newsletters, and articles; copies of articles by and about Thorman; copies of his speeches; and family and business documents.

Records relating to Thorman's tenure with NCR are in the NCR collection (CNCR). His work with Ave Maria, Act, and Voice of St. Jude is documented only by bound volumes of the publications for some of the years of his employment.

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Articles, newspaper clippings, lectures, unpublished papers, and a small amount of correspondence relating to writers and literary topics. Correspondents include Jean Charlot and Sister Mary Madeleva, CSC, president of St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, 1934-1961.

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Collection of magazines, clippings, dust jackets, and other ephemera containing illustrations of Edward Gorey. Also includes book catalogs, profiles of Gorey, and reviews of Gorey works.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of papers relating to the career of Éilís Ní Dhuibhne. The bulk of the collection is comprised of handwritten, typescript, and computer printout manuscripts in various stages of development for novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, and poems by the author, as well as related miscellany (including drawings and a video recording). Titles well-represented within the collection include the novels The Dancers Dancing, ...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the personal papers of Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, including her correspondence, biographical materials, and diplomas. The collection also documents her political activity as one of the leading feminists of twentieth-century Argentina through her professional papers, such as records for the Asociación Pro-Derechos de la Mujeres, speeches, and essays. Also included are photographs of Dra. Sara Justo and ephemera and records relating to various feminist...

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1938-1978; book reviews, articles, and manuscripts by Schossberger; information and notes on book editing projects of the University of Notre Dame Press; programs and minutes of the American Association of University Presses, 1965-1975; minutes and correspondence of the executive committee of the Midwest Chamber Orchestra, 1975-1978, and the Christian Education Committee of Sacred Heart Parish (Notre Dame), 1975-1977. Notes, lectures, and syllabi for classes...

Abstract The collection consists of documents, letters, photographs, and some manuscripts relating to Evgeniia Ginzburg, the author of Krutoi Marshrut, an autobiographical account of the author's experience in the Soviet labor camps. Krutoi Marshrut has been translated into English in two volumes: Journey into the Whirlwind and Within the Whirlwind. The collection also includes materials relating to the life...

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Correspondence with James Cardinal Gibbons, bishops John Ireland, John J. Keane, Denis O'Connell, and John Lancaster Spalding, and others, much of it concerning Americanism; also notes, clippings, pamphlets, drafts, and photographs.

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Chiefly congratulatory letters to Satolli when he became a cardinal in 1895; several letters concerning his work as papal ablegate; photographs, clippings, and a program of a play presented at the Columbian Exposition at which Satolli was present, 1893.

Scope and Content Letters and papers from Blanchet's trips to France (1846) and South America (1856-1857); correspondence with Major Edward Mallet (1881-1882), with a few letters exchanged between Mallet and Bishop Augustin Magloire Alexander Blanchet (1883); letters, pamphlets and clippings involving Archbishops F.N. Blanchet, Charles J. Seghers, William H. Gross, and Alexander Christie; and a few papers and clippings involving the Diocese of Vancouver Island, suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Oregon City....

Scope and Content A few original manuscripts, but chiefly photocopies, transcriptions, and translations of correspondence and documents concerning the history of the Catholic Church in Kentucky; correspondents include missionary priest Stephen T. Badin and bishops John Baptist David, Benedict Joseph Flaget, Martin John Spalding, Peter Joseph Lavialle, and William George McCloskey. Portraits of Catholic clergy and religious along with photographs and photomechanical prints of Catholic churches,...

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Notebooks; scrapbook and clippings about Wenninger; pamphlets, articles, lectures, and sermons (many by Wenninger); a copy of his M.A. thesis "A Biological Study of Miranda Aurantia," 1917; grade books, 1916-1940; a card catalog, prepared by Wenninger, of books on biology and evolution; articles on science in the Notre Dame Scholastic, 1875-1887; maps of South Bend and Mishawaka, Indiana; and photographs.

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The athletic papers and attendant printed matter of Chicagoan Fred L. Steers, deriving from his years of administrative service to the Central Association of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, the national AAU, and the American Olympic Committee. The collection includes substantial materials on the Olympic Games of 1928 (Amsterdam), 1932 (Los Angeles), and 1936 (Berlin), all of which Steers attended as manager of the U.S. women's track and field team.

Scope and Content Correspondence, speeches, reports, and other papers; with material on the Kenkel family, clippings, maps, notebooks, a reel of microfilm containing letters from Kenkel to Joseph Matt (1906-1913), photographs of Kenkel and members of his family and books from Kenkel's library. Correspondents include Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, John A. Ryan, Congressman John J. Cochran, and Brother Joseph Dutton. Extensive family correspondence includes letters from those serving in World War...

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 Barabtarlo Collection consists of letters, postcards, emails, manuscripts, photographs, audiocassettes, and videocassettes. These items were collected by Gennady Barabtarlo over the course of his association with the Nabokov Family and with Alexander Asarkan.

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Personal, professional, and political correspondence and other papers of the Mississippi lawyer, planter, and politician George Colin McKee (1837-1890). McKee was a "carpetbagger" and moderate Republican who represented the Vicksburg district in Congress during Reconstruction. Most of the material dates from the 20 years following the Civil War, though there are McKee family papers extending into the 20th century.

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Correspondence, 1893-1918; photostats of two letters from Henri Bergson, 1906 and 1908; manuscripts of articles written by Sauvage for the Catholic Encyclopedia; Directory of the Congregation of Holy Cross, 1912; clippings; address book; degree from Catholic University; and photographs.

Scope and Content Newspaper clippings and pamphlets concerning Potawatomies, Miamis, and other Indians of North America; an "Appeal in Behalf of the Negro and Indian Missions in the United States," signed by the Commission for the Catholic Missions among the Negroes and Indians (James Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishops Patrick J. Ryan, and John J. Kain); scattered issues of the journal Kamloops Wawa (1894-1897); five issues (1896-1898) of Anishinabe Enamiad, a Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of the...

Scope and Content Correspondence and photocopies of correspondence with other artists, museums and galleries, admirers of his work, Yugoslav emigrants, clients who have commissioned work, and friends and family; contracts, reports, and architectural plans relating to his commissions; his unpublished manuscripts of poetry, a novel, a play, and two books on Michelangelo; articles on and interviews with Mestrovic; and contracts and inventories relating to the disposition of his homes, artwork, and other...

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...

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A group of around 60 manuscript personal letters, almost all written by and/or to members of the Jackson family of Moore County, North Carolina before and during the Civil War. The collection includes letters of eleven Confederate States soldiers, serving in the 26th or 30th North Carolina Infantry or the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry.

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Correspondence with Matthew Harkins, Bishop of Providence, William Stang, Bishop of Fall River, Daniel F. Feehan, Bishop of Fall River, John W. Cavanaugh, CSC, President of the University of Notre Dame, and others, 1878-1916; and clippings concerning Coyle's work, 1880s-1910s.

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Correspondence, 1914-1941; notes and manuscript copies of Hagerty's writings such as "The Catholic Church and Social Reform;" and clippings concerning Hagerty's career and the death of Monsignor John A. Ryan in 1945.