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Georgetown University

 Organization

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

R. Emmett Curran Papers

 File
Identifier: GTM-180305
Scope and Contents The papers of R. Emmett Curran, a longtime history professor at Georgetown University, consist of historical research material concerning two major topics: the history of Georgetown University and the history of the Catholic Church in America. The Georgetown University portion of the collection includes typed biographical files documenting faculty who taught at the college from 1789 to 1920 and students who attended the college from 1789 to 1955. The Georgetown University-related material...
Dates: 1789 - 2023

Lev E. Dobriansky Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS447
Scope and Contents The Lev Dobriansky Papers comprise the personal papers of economist, educator, and diplomat Lev E. Dobriansky, who taught at Georgetown University from 1948 to 1986 and served as director of the Institute on Political and Economic Systems at Georgetown University from 1970 to 1986. The papers include personal correspondence; printed materials; and documents about the Fund for American Studies, the University Club, the Victims of Communism Memorial, and the National Captive Nations...
Dates: 1950 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1998

William O. Dundas Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-710820
Scope and Contents The collection consists of the correspondence of William Oswald Dundas. It includes outgoing letters addressed chiefly to Edward I. Devitt, SJ. (1841-1920), archivist and professor of history at Georgetown College and Henry J. Shandelle, S.J. (1848-1925), librarian and professor of English and philosophy; extensive recollections of student life at Georgetown 1856-58 and of life in Washington DC during the 1850s. Incoming correspondence includes letters from James Edward Calhoun (1796-1889)...
Dates: 1839 - 1920

Georgetown Ignatian Society Records

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-061108
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of the records of the Georgetown Ignatian Society and documents their efforts to have Georgetown University formally declared "un-Catholic" for their recognition of a pro-choice student group (GU Choice) and other offenses in the 1990s. It consists of their Petition to Cardinal Hickey, their Canon Law suits, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and anti-GU Choice buttons.

Dates: 1986 - 2003

Anton Gloetzner Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-0030
Scope and Contents

Collection of papers that belonged to Anton Gloetzner, including a copyist's manuscript of the opening two movements of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (19th century); autograph manuscript of Rheinberger's Fantasie-Sonate fur die Orgel (before 1872); Gloetzner's Ave Regina (dedicated to Georgetown University in 1889 in honor of the University's centennial) and organ exercises; and a printed copy of his Mass, Op. 12 (1910-1911).

Dates: circa 1870s-1911

Emeran J. Kolkmeyer, SJ Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-0039
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 35mm black and white photograph negatives taken by Fr. Emeran Kolkmeyer between 1929 and 1933 that showcase his travels throughout Europe and the US as well as shots of the Georgetown University campus.

Dates: 1929 - 1933

Heinrich Kronstein Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-790507
Scope and Contents

The collections documents the career of Heinrich Kronstein, including his teaching career at Georgetown University and as a counsellor to officials in post-World War II Germany. The bulk of the collection is in German, particuarly the correspondence.

Please see the External Documents section below to view an inventory to this collection.

Dates: 1936 - 1972

Constantine E. McGuire Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-0016
Scope and Contents The collection primarily contains correspondence and speeches from 1918-1929 during Constantine McGuire's time at the Foreign Service College at Georgetown that document the opening and promotion of the school. The collection includes numerous invitations and responses for lecturerers to teach classes at the Foregin Service College between 1919 and 1922. It also highlights McGuire's continued investment in the college's expansion from 1923 to the end of his life in 1965, including his...
Dates: 1918 - 1965; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1965

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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects 1
American history 1
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Catholics -- Religious identity 1