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Ord Family Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS267
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Ord Family Papers: Part 2 provide a wealth of documentary material on members of the distinguished Ord family, especially Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883) and Edward Otho Cresap Ord II (1858-1923). This collection fills in details about the career of American Civil War notable Edward Otho Cresap Ord and includes his letters from California in 1848 touching on the Mexican War and the gold rush; his correspondence to his brother Doctor James Lycurgus Ord between 1848 and 1873; some...
Dates:
1848 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1923
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Ord Family Papers 3
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS277
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Ord Family Papers: Part 3 provide more biographical details about several key members of the prominent Ord family. This collection includes sixteen letters dated 1847 to 1858 from War of 1812 veteran James Ord to his son, medical doctor James Lycurgus Ord, mostly regarding family news and touching on social life in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan and political events in Washington, D.C. and California. Also, this portion of the family's papers contains numerous letters dated 1841 to 1865...
Dates:
1841 - 1901; Majority of material found within 1841 - 1865
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Gregory Orfalea Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-990608
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the career of a American author and editor Gregory Orfalea. It includes manuscripts and research files for many of Orfalea’s books, including “Wrapping the Grapeleaves: A Sheaf of Contemporary Arab-American Poetry” (1982), “Before the Flames: A Quest for the History of Arab-Americans” (1988), “Messengers of the Lost Battalion: The Heroic 551st and the Turning of the Tide at the Battle of the Bulge” (1997), "Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding...
Dates:
1968 - 2023
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Organization of Arab Students in the U.S.A. and Canada Publication (Tariq al-talbah)
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 21 (Oversized), Folder: 9
Identifier: GTM-0100
Scope and Contents
One issue of the Journal of the Organization of Arab Students in the U.S.A. and Canada (Tariq al-talbah, no. 3, March 1973). It was published in the Bronx, NY, and is printed in Arabic. It includes articles with a leftist pro-Arab orientation, with topics including "American imperialism", uprisings in the Arab world, Guinea-Bissau, the Arab Gulf, North Africa, women's affairs, and an article critical of the Saudi royal family.
Dates:
1973
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Original Manuscript Verses of Robert Burns
Item — Box: GTM Shared Box 41, Folder: 13
Identifier: GTM-20250124
Alexander Orlov Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS432
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Alexander Orlov Papers contain selected correspondence and printed materials of Alexander Orlov, the highest-ranking Soviet intelligence officer to ever defect to the West. The correspondence in the collection is devoted entirely to the release of Orlov's first book, "The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes" (1954), including signed letters from former President Herbert Hoover, Ambassador William Bullitt, and the editors of the "Saturday Evening Post" and "Reader's Digest"....
Dates:
1953 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1953 - 1954
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Joseph P. Orme Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS317
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The collection contains eight autograph letters written by Georgetown College alumni to fellow alumus, Joseph P. Orme, between the years 1856 and 1860. The content of the letters range from catching up on news of friends and family to serious political debate. The opinions written by these young men display the divided state of the nation on the brink of civil war. Of the seven friends, at least three went on to fight in the war, two for the Union and one for the Confederacy.
Dates:
1856 - 1860
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
OSS Oral History Project Records
Collection
Identifier: GTM-220705
Scope and Contents
The OSS Oral History Project collection comprises the records of a Georgetown University-based project funded by the Central Intelligence Agency’s Center for the Study of Intelligence. In 1996 and 1997, under the leadership of Dr. Christof Mauch, a team of scholars conducted oral history interviews with over thirty former members of the Office of Strategic Services, a World War Two American intelligence agency. Interviewees included former CIA director Richard Helms, US Supreme Court Justice...
Dates:
1997 - 1998
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Ottoman Turkish-Chilean consular protocol agreement
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 53, Folder: 9
Identifier: GTM-20251031
Scope and Contents
Ottoman Turkish-Chilean consular protocol agreement, printed in French and Ottoman Turkish, 1914.
Dates:
1914
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Fulton Oursler, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS159
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Fulton Oursler, Jr. Papers contain correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials collected by Ourlser during his career at Reader's Digest, mostly related to the work he did with well known writers and personalities who wrote for the magazine. The collection is divided up into five series: The Individuals Series, the James A. Michener Series, the Duke of Windsor Series, the John F. Kennedy and Espionage Series, and the Reader's Digest Series.The Individuals Series...
Dates:
1950 - 1990; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Fulton Oursler Memorial Collection
File
Identifier: GTM-820330
Scope and Contents
Manuscripts by Fulton Oursler, Grace Perkins Oursler, and others; correspondence to/from the Ourslers; other related manuscript and printed items, and rolls of photographic negatives taken by/of Fulton Oursler. Of major interest are correspondence and other files relating to Fulton Oursler's editorial work for Liberty and The Reader's Digest. Correspondents include: Franklin D. Roosevelt (long series); Soong Mei-ling, or Madame Chiang Kai-shek (long series); H.L. Mencken (long series); and...
Dates:
1881-1954; Majority of material found within 1925-1950
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
F. D. Owen Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS282
Scope and Contents
The F.D. Owen Papers contain 12 images, including photographs, engravings, and drawings by F.D. Owen. The images, which are numbered 1 through 12, are preserved in a scrapbook, and they demonstrate Owen's skill as a designer.
Dates:
1889 - 1899
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Garry Owen Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS283
Scope and Contents
The Garry Owen Papers consist of manuscripts and printed materials about Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. An employee of the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO), Garry Owen collected memos and articles relevant to ARAMCO's work in Saudi Arabia. The highlight of the collection is an original letter from famous Arabist H. St. John Philby to Owen. Other documents mostly concern the political and economic features of Saudi Arabia. The collection is contained in two archival boxes (2.25 linear...
Dates:
1917 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1969
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Joseph A. Page Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20150608
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the research work of former Georgetown Law Professor, Joseph A. Page. While Page specialized in the fields of torts, product liability, and food, drug, and cosmetic regulation, the collection primarily details his research on Brazilian culture from the 1960s to the early 1990s. Specifically, the collection contains 23 travel journals detailing multiple trips to Brazil between 1964 and 1992. Within these journals, Page makes broad observations about Brazillian culture...
Dates:
1961-1992
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Palestine Police Reward Poster for Hamad Daoud El Judeh Zawata
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 13 (Oversized), Folder: 15
Identifier: GTM-0082
Scope and Contents
Palestine Police reward poster issued for information leading to the arrest of Hamad Daoud el Judeh Zawata, 4th September 1943. 38 x 25 cm. Text in English, Arabic and Hebrew.
[Description provided by Fishburn Books, London]
Dates:
1943
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Palm-leaf book (ola) in Tamil
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 39
Identifier: GTM-0064
Scope and Contents
Palm-leaf book (ola) in Tamil, with wooden boards and cord tie, from Chennai (Madras).
Dates:
1850 - 1900
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Panama Canal Subcommittee Records
Collection
Identifier: GTM-19810101
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, memoranda, texts of addresses and congressional testimony, articles, publications, photographs, and newspaper clippings from the U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on the Panama Canal.
Dates:
1963 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1976 - 1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Panama Canal Zone Scrapbook
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 13 (Oversized), Folder: 17
Identifier: GTM-181108
Scope and Contents
A disbound scrapbook comprising photographs taken by Charles E. Uncapher (1919–2007) of Export, Pennsylvania, during his service with the 33rd Infantry Regiment of the US Army at Fort Clayton in the Panama Canal Zone. The photographs document the regiment at infantry headquarters, views of the Panama Canal and its surrounding area, and a visit by then-General Dwight D. Eisenhower in August 1946. The scrapbook also includes a 33rd Infantry Regiment insignia pin and a letter dated 2001 from...
Dates:
1946; 2001
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Panama Hattie Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-171129
Scope and Contents Note
The Panama Hattie Collection contains a screenplay for the film "Panama Hattie" and a typescript of the play by that same name. The music and lyrics to Panama Hattie were authored by Cole Porter; the book was authored by Herbert Fields and B.G. De Sylva.
Dated July 10, 1941, the screenplay was actor Dan Dailey's personal copy. The screenplay is 117 pages long. Deriving from State Fair Musicals in 1954, the typescript includes several pencil sketches among the pages.
Dates:
Creation: 1941 - 1954
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Paraguayan Jesuits Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS101
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Paraguayan Jesuits Collection consists of 20 manuscript and 4 printed documents ranging in date from 1639 to about 1744. A number of the manuscripts deal with the employment of Indian laborers from the Jesuit 'reductions' on the fortification of the ports of Buenos Aires; others touch on the incursions of hostile Indians against the reductions. A major emphasis of the collection, however, is on the continuing struggle between the Jesuits and the antagonistic representatives of the Church...
Dates:
1639 - 1744
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts