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Cynthia P. Schneider Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-011221
Scope and Contents
A professor and scholar of seventeenth-century Dutch art, Dr. Cynthia P. Schneider was appointed by President Clinton in 1998 as the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, where she served until 2001. The papers consist of correspondence, daily schedules, notebooks, printed items, and subject files, recording in detail her posting there. It includes letters from Jozias van Aartsen, Jimmy Carter, Wesley K. Clark, her father Anthony L. Perrin, Thomas R. Pickering, and Strobe Talbot, among others....
Dates:
1998 - 2001
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Schroeder & Cie. - European Photograph Album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-0102
Scope and Contents
A late 19th century photograph album depicting Alpine landscapes and cities, published by Schroeder & Cie in Zurich, 1897. Includes some images in vibrant photochrome. Regions depicted include: Switzerland, Northern Italy, and Southern France.
Dates:
1897
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
George Schwarz Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS29
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This is a collection of late seventeenth-century Latin letters relating to the Church and especially to the Society of Jesus, all bound into one volume. Among other places, they emanate from or discuss Genoa, the South Pacific, the Philippines, Lisbon, Austria, the Balkans, Japan,China, Indochina, Paraguay, Brazil, and Mexico.
Dates:
1672 - 1681
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
William H. Schweder, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-200206
Scope and Contents
The William H. Schweder, SJ Papers contain spiritual writings--including retreat notes, meditations, and sermons--predominantly created throughout his Jesuit noviceship at St. Andrew-on-Hudson and later Wernersville.
Dates:
1928-1932, 1941
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
James Brown Scott Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-660503
Scope and Contents
The papers of James Brown Scott (1866-1945), authority in international law, consisting of correspondence, memoranda, documents, minutes, printed material, manuscripts of articles and addresses, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Included is material from Scott's activities as Solicitor (1906-1910) and Special Advisor (1914-1917) for the State Department, as delegate to the Second Hague Conference (1907) and Paris Peace Conference (1919), his membership and offices in the Carnegie...
Dates:
1891 - 1967
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Manuscript of Scottish song by Sir Walter Scott
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 16, Folder: 2
Identifier: GTM-20231013
Scope and Contents
Traditional Scottish song, a shorter version of which Scott included in The Fortunes of Nigel (1822), p.476, not found in later collections. 1 sheet. 20x33 cm (8x13"), folded to make four pages. Not signed. First line: "It's hame & it's hame & it's hame I wad be". Inscription on p.4 in near-contemporary hand: "Given by Miss Clephane for whom it was written to G.S. Cantley[?]. The three Miss MacLean Clephanes of Torloisk, Isle of Man, were wards of...
Dates:
circa 1820
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Bert Seal ARAMCO Photographic Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS314
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 94 photographs taken in Saudi Arabia between the years of 1955 and 1960. The photos have been left in their original order as they were received from Bert Seal, ARAMCO Public Relations Department Photographer. The prints were made by Seal from copy negatives from 8x10 prints he brought back from Saudi Arabia. The Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) was organized to carry out oil operations in Saudi Arabia under a concession agreement with that country's...
Dates:
1955 - 1959
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Joshua Seney Memoranda Book
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-0080
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a bound volume of orders related to measures taken by Queen Anne's County, Maryland, courts to protect property (collect debts, etc.) written down by Joshua Seney. At the front there is a table of contents listing offenses with page numbers where the reader can see each related law and justification of judgement. As the volume does not contain named plaintiffs or defendants, it seems to be a guidebook rather than a record of verdicts handed down. The frontispiece was...
Dates:
1794
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Sennep and Tim French Political Cartoons Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20240717
Scope and Contents
Collection of approximately 1,500 political cartoons that were published in three major Paris newspapers between 1959-1964 by Jean-Jacques Charles Pennès (Sennep) and Louis Mitelberg (Tim)The cartoons lampoon Cold War-era international relations of the early 1960s, often featuring political figures such as Charles De Gaulle, François Mitterand, Nikita Kruschev, Mao, Fidel Castro, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Topics include the French economic...
Dates:
1959 - 1965
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Lisa Sergio Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS172
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Lisa Sergio Papers span the career of this eminent woman. The bulk of the material dates from 1937 to 1988. Material includes correspondence, manuscripts of books and articles, transcripts for lectures, addresses, and radio broadcasts. Files cover a wide range of subjects that interested Ms. Sergio, as well as organizations in which she participated. A photographs series includes Ms. Sergio and her many contacts with notable individuals. An audio-visual series includes recordings of...
Dates:
1900-1989; Majority of material found within 1937-1988
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Lisa Sergio radio broadcast transcripts
Collection
Identifier: GTM-170411
Content Description
Typescripts of WQXR New York, radio broadcasts by Lisa Sergio.
Dates:
1939-1945
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Henry J. Shandelle, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS041
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Shandelle was born in Germany in 1848, and brought as a child to Baltimore. He received the customary Jesuit education of the Maryland-New York Province, and spent most of his career teaching: at Boston College,Loyola in Baltimore, Holy Cross in Worcester, and at Georgetown. He served as librarian of Georgetown and was known as a lover of books, the classics especially. He wrote Latin well and was assigned the task of writing official university responses in that languages when they were...
Dates:
1892 - 1920; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1915
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Russell B. Shaw Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-890502
Collection level scope and contents note
The Russell B. Shaw Papers comprise 4.5 linear feet consisting of 43 folders arranged in three boxes. The papers consist almost exclusively of manuscripts of eight books written by Shaw and two books co-authored by C. A. Koob and Germain Grisez.
Dates:
1959 - 1988
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
John Gilmary Shea Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS269
Scope and Contents
The preeminent American Catholic historian of his day, John Gilmary Shea (1824-1892) amassed an extraordinary collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and research materials. The John Gilmary Shea Papers preserved in the Georgetown University Library Special Collections Division provide valuable documentation of both American History in general and American Catholic History in particular. Along with a small amount of outgoing correspondence from Shea, most of which was sent to Edmond...
Dates:
1600 - 1892; Majority of material found within 1700 - 1890
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Jetta G. Sheehy Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-180503
Content Description
Scrapbook containing theater programs, playbills, handbills, and clippings from Washington, D.C. theaters.
Dates:
1902 - 1910
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
A Portrait addressed to Mrs. Crewe with the Comedy of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 25, Folder: 8
Identifier: GTM-20140612
Scope and Contents
Handwritten manuscript poem titled "A Portrait" by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. The poem is addressed to Frances Anne Crewe. 6 pages in total. The poem concludes with the line, "She my inspirer--and my Model--Crewe!"
Dates:
circa 1790
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Walter Shewring - Gina Thompson Colby Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS233
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of 15 letters, 13 of which were written by Walter Shewring, sent to Gina Thompson (Colby) between 1986 and 1990. The collection is contained in 15 folders and 1 box which is 0.25 linear feet in size. As an American student studying at Oxford University, Gina Thompson met and befriended the classics scholar Shewring in 1986. At the time, Shewring was doing private research in the Bodleian, and Thompson was taking a cultural course from Oxford with a group of students...
Dates:
1986 - 1990
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Walter Shewring Papers
Item
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS190
Collection level scope and contents note
The Walter Shewring Papers is a small collection of letters, essays and manuscripts by Shewring. The most notable item is the full autograph manuscript of Shewring's translation of Homer's "Odyssey," published by the Oxford University Press (1980). The collection includes some correspondence and printed articles by such distinguished acquaintances as Walter de la Mare, Eric Gill, David Jones, and Arthur Waley.
Dates:
1930 - 1988; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Albert E. Shoemaker Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-830219
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence among the Shoemaker family and their Temperance Movement associates. Much of the correspondence revolves around their Temperance work, family matters, local affairs, and Albert E. Shoemaker's time at Georgetown Law School.
See the External Documents section below for a detailed inventory to the collection.
Dates:
1880s-1917
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Shoemaker Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-831130
Scope and Contents
The collection primarily deals with family-related matters of the Eid, Brown, and Shoemaker families. The materials relate to the history of the 19th century Washington D.C. area, specifically Tenleytown, Friendship Heights, and west Chevy Chase, Maryland. See the External Documents section below for a detailed inventory to the collection.The Eid family materials includes deeds, plats, bills of exchange, and indentures from the 1830s to the 1860s. It also includes an undated bill...
Dates:
1830s-1958
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts