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Charles Constantine Pise Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS18
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the papers of Charles Constantine Pise, a Jesuit who left the Society in 1821 and eventually became Senate Chaplain for the 22nd US Congress in 1832. Materials include correspondence, travel papers, writings, and miscellaneous documents.

Dates: 1818 - 1855

Theta Juanita Pitts - Adlai E. Stevenson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS312
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The collection contains typed letters signed from politician Adlai E. Stevenson to campaign supporter Theta Juanita Pitts, copies of correspondence from Stevenson to Pitts, and letters from Stevenson's staff to Pitts. The bulk of the correspondence was written surrounding Stevenson's two presidential campaigns in 1952 and 1956 while he was governor of Illinois. The majority of the letters are thanking Pitts for messages and gifts she had sent. The collection also contains printed items...
Dates: 1952 - 1965

Albert Plesman Collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-9
Identifier: GTM-121126
Scope and Contents note

Articles, correspondence, notes, and manuscripts relating to Dr. Albert Plesman (1889-1953), Dutch pioneer in aviation and founder of KLM, the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name. Includes a carbon copy of typed manuscript of Plesman's autobiography; "Wither Civilization," a typed manuscript by Plesman; a photograph of a bust of Plesman; and a group photograph of Plesman with Mayor of Sydney, Australia, Ernest C. O'Dea (b. 1889-1976).

Dates: 1938 - 1954

Plowden Family Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-400531
Scope and Contents

The collection contains property leases, deeds, legal briefs, copies of wills, letters, family records, warrants, land surveys, charts, notes, and "fragments". The records primarily relate to property in St. Mary's County, Maryland.

See the External Documents section below for the collection's inventory.

Dates: 1660 - 1916

Francis Pollard Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS331
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Francis Pollard Papers consist of two series: correspondence and photographs. Correspondence is arranged chronologically; photographs are arranged alphabetically by the name of the person pictured. NB: An additional letter written by Francis Pollard (2/6/1862) is housed at the Indiana Historical Society. This letter concerns a visit to the Senate during which Senator Jesse D. Bright was expelled from the Senate for writing a letter to Jefferson Davis. Information about this letter can be...
Dates: 1861 - 1935; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1870

Horace Porter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS249
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Horace Porter Collection consists of 13.0 linear feet of photographs, manuscripts, letters, clippings, prints, and printed ephemera, together with a large assortment of valuable artifacts connected with General Porter's career. Porter, best known for his role as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was a noted soldier, railroad executive, diplomat, and son of Governor David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867) of Pennsylvania. The collection includes a variety of...
Dates: 1855 - 1921

Horace Porter - Mrs. Osborn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS348
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The Horace Porter - Mrs. Osborn Collection consists of correspondence written by Horace Porter to a Mrs. Osborn between the years 1906 and 1917. In addition to the ten letters, the collection contains the New York Times obituary of Horace Porter.

Dates: 1906 - 1917

Post-World War II Geopolitics Book Outline by Robert Nolan

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 5 (Letter), Folder: 8
Identifier: GTM-20230120
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a book outline by Robert Nolan on post-World War II geopolitics, written around 1949 by Robert Nolan. Nolan was a student at the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

In the outline, Nolan mentions that Fr. Walsh's Nuremberg Trials diaries will be utilized as a source for the book.

Dates: 1949

Potomac Company Payroll Log

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-0058
Scope and Contents A single payroll log of the Potomac Company ("Potowmack Company"), a company formed to improve the navigation system for the Potomac River, for canal construction workers employed at Little Falls on the Potomac River. Written in tabular format, the document lists 90 individual workers with their occupations, number of days worked, monthly wage rates, rations deducted from wages, and the authorization of the receipt of payment signified by the workers' signatures or mark and the signature of...
Dates: 1793 October 26 - 1794 January 23

Alvy Powell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20250730
Scope and Contents The collection contains photographs, programs, posters and other materials that document the career of opera singer Alvy Powell. The materials primarily document two aspects of Powell's career: his opera performances, especially the role of Porgy in the Porgy and Bess, and his time performing in the U.S. Army Chorus. The collection includes photographs, notes of thanks, and autographs from a number of U.S. Presidents and their families, including the Ford family, the Reagan family, the Bush...
Dates: 1980s-2021

Powell, Donald T., Papers

 File
Identifier: GTM-090109
Scope and Contents Note

Carbon copies of letters from Powell to Cleve McElroy, Bill Ryan, and Carl Schmidt. Included is typed manuscript for an unpublished novel by Powell, entitled, "The Dennings."

Dates: 1971 - 1985

Donald Powell Papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-800102
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Powell and writers, publishers, politicians and friends. Notable individuals include Dorothy Day, H.L. Mencken, Denver Lindley, Harry Sylvester, and George N. Shuster.

Additional ephemera added in Folder 24 (not included in 1986 finding aid).

Click on External Documents below to link to collection finding aid.

Dates: 1923 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1970

Donald T. Powell Papers 2

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-090108
Scope and Contents note The Donald Powell Papers 2 represent a portion of the personal papers of Catholic intellectual Donald Powell. Of principal interest is a long run of letters from well renown American painter and teacher Carl Schmitt to Powell, regarding their long friendship, their writings, philosophy, Catholic issues, world events, politics, and mutual aquaintances. A manuscript of Powell's "Bennett Mather" is preserved in tact in this part of his papers. Likewise, many short typed manuscripts by Powell...
Dates: 1932 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1985

Daniel E. Power, SJ Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-200205
Scope and Contents

The Daniel E. Power, SJ Papers predominantly hold material created and collected while Power was vice president of and involved with GWETA (the Greater Washington Educational Television Association), the parent organization of WETA-TV channel 26. The papers also include items that reflect his personal and spiritual life.

Dates: 1922 - 1976

Practical Methods for Use of Military Personnel in Combating Radical and Pacifist Propaganda

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 40, Folder: 2
Identifier: GTM-20250117
Content Description

1 carbon copy typed manuscript in a contemporary binder. Document marked by hand "Confidential", from the Army War College, Washington, D.C. "COURSE AT THE ARMY WAR COLLEGE, 1927-1928. MEMORANDUM FOR THE COMMANDANT, ARMY WAR COLLEGE. SUBJECT: PRACTICAL METHODS FOR USE OF MILITARY PERSONNEL IN COMBATTING RADICAL AND PACIFIST PROPAGANDA. Prepared by: Lieut. Colonel George Chase Lewis, Inf. (DOL). April 3, 1928."

Dates: 1928-04-03

Presidential Autographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-140212
Scope and Contents note

The Presidential Autographs Collection contains documents written by or signed by American presidents from George Washington through Ronald Reagan. The documents are sorted first in order of the president's term of office and then chronologically. The sequence begins anew with each box of oversized materials. This extensive collection provides valuable information for scholars of the American presidency.

Dates: 1777-1989

Mary Eleanor Price Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-130731
Scope and Contents

Photocopied material relating to U.S. Navy nurse Mary Eleanor Price. Includes copy of Price's Master's thesis.

Dates: 1945 - 1988

Miguel Pro Execution Scrapbook

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 5 (Letter), Folder: 13
Identifier: GTM-20221201
Scope and Contents Scrapbook documenting the execution of Fr. Miguel Pro Juarez and two other men in Mexico on November 23, 1927, for an alleged attempt on the life of former Mexican President Álvaro Obregón. It includes photographs of the execution and of Pro's funeral. The scrapbook contains notes on the execution and an explanation of the origin of the scrapbook by Mary D. Kenna.The scrapbook was sent to Fr. Nevils, "Archivist of Georgetown University," by Mary D. Kenna of New York City in1942...
Dates: 1927, 1942

Edgar L. Prochnik Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-730730
Scope and Contents

Manuscripts of various works by Edgar L. Prochnik, including: "La Question d'Orient," "The Diplomatic History of Europe in the Nineteenth Century, Part IV," and "The Prime Ministers and Governments of England." Note: Click on "External Documents" below for a link to the box inventory for the collection.

Dates: 1938 - 1960

Protective Pass for Enyedy Laszlo from the Apostolic Nunciature in Budapest

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 2 (Legal), Folder: 1
Identifier: GTM-20210406
Scope and Contents

One Protective Pass for Enyedy Laszlo from the Apostolic Nunciature in Budapest, issued by Monsignor Angelo Rotta in 1944. As Papal Nuncio, Rotta issued passes such as this to protect Jews from the Nazi Holocaust in Budapest.

Dates: 1944

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American Conference on Religious Movements 1
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Ateneo de Zamboanga 1
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Attwood, Peter, 1682-1734 1
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Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 1
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Barber, Virgil, 1782-1847 1
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