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Box 5

 Container

Contains 26 Results:

Catalog in Spanish, 1889

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

A Spanish translation of the Georgetown University catalog for the 1889-1890 school year.

Dates: 1889

"Data for a Monograph on Our Catalogues", circa 1890

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

A manuscript by Barnum providing a "comparative examination of the annual catalogs of Georgetown," 1850-1889.

Dates: circa 1890

"History of the Medical School of Georgetown University", 1900

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

A year-by-year history of the college's medical school (mostly focusing on commencements and number of graduates), 1849-1900, including notes on yearly fees.

Dates: 1900

"Chronicle of the First Fifty Years of the Georgetown Medical School", circa 1900

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

A manuscript by Barnum on the early years of the medical school, including a history of its founding, descriptions of events (1849-1877), and information on commencements; first faculty, alumni, fees, number of graduates; and lists of professors/valedictorians.

Dates: circa 1900

Archives correspondence index, circa 1920

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

Index titled "Spicilegium Epistolarum seu Mille ex Millibus Archivis Georgiopolitanis" ("Storehouse of Letters or a Thousand out of Thousands of the Georgetown Archives") of approximately 1,000 names held in the correspondence of the Georgetown University archives in the early twentieth-century. Note that the identifiers provided in this manuscript compiled by Barnum are no longer accurate.

Dates: circa 1920

"Dramatics. List of Plays", circa 1900

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents

Contains list of plays performed at Georgetown 1821-1867, with some information on student organizations interested in drama.

Dates: circa 1900

Notes on the Medical School, circa 1900

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Notes for the preceding two manuscripts on the history of the Georgetown medical school in box 5 folders 16-17, including commencement information and lists of professors/valedictorians.

Dates: circa 1900

Morris Medal winners, circa 1914

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents

List of Morris Medal winners compiled by Barnum covering 1875-1914. The award was founded by Martin F. Morris in 1875.

Dates: circa 1914

"Georgetown's Worthies", circa 1900

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Details on 112 notable Georgetown students with their degrees (when applicable) and other accomplishments; dates of entry cover 1797-1877.

Dates: circa 1900

Cannons, 1899

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents Handwritten copies of 1840-1841 correspondence related to the possibility of moving one of the colonial cannons from St. Inigoes to the entrance of the state hall in Annapolis. Seven such cannons were unearthed from St. Mary's/St. Inigoes in 1824, with three used as boundary markers at St. Inigoes until recovered for the state's bicentennial in 1934; one given to Charles Benedict Calvert in 1845 (now at Riversdale); two presented to Georgetown University for it's centennial celebration in...
Dates: 1899

"Stray Notes", circa 1915

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents A collection of "items of interest which came to the attention of Father Barnum," originally filling four composition books. A later archivist then dismantled many of these notes and filed them with pertinent collections or material. This folder contains those that were not separated and cover the following Georgetown University-related topics:(1) An 1865-1866 minstrel show performance (2) The early history of the Dramatic Association (3) Plaster medallions of...
Dates: circa 1915

Chronology, circa 1900

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

A list of notable events in Georgetown University's history (1884-1892) as compiled by Barnum.

Dates: circa 1900

"Georgetown's Ermine", circa 1900

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents

A list of 48 ninteenth-century Georgetown graduates who eventually became lawyers or were granted law degrees.

Dates: circa 1900

West Point, circa 1900

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents

List of 31 men associated with Georgetown University who graduated from West Point (1811-1880).

Dates: circa 1900

Sermons, circa 1915

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Contains four sermons by Barnum for the Feast of St. Patrick, Easter, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Second Sunday of Advent), and Advent.

Dates: circa 1915

Blackwell's Island notes, circa 1910

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Notes by Barnum on daily schedules for the workhouse, the Metropolitan Hospital, and the almshouse on Blackwell's Island for Fr. John J. Lunny and other Catholic chaplains who served there. Also accounts of interactions with patients in the various hospital wards on the island, particularly related to serving them sacraments, and a chart of the "types of paupers."

Dates: circa 1910

Introduction to Cataldo's Life of Christ, 1914

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Barnum's introduction to Jesus-Christ-Nim Kinne Uetas-Pa Kut Ka-Kala Time-Nin I-Ues Pilep-Eza-Pa Taz-Pa Tamtai-Pa Numipu-Timt-Ki (The Life of Jesus Christ from the Four Gospels in the Nez Perces Language), translated by Fr. Joseph M. Cataldo.

Dates: 1914

"Incidents in the Lives of Our Saints", circa 1915

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Handwritten anecdotes, often humorous, on incidents in the lives of individual Jesuits by Barnum.

Dates: circa 1915

"Stray Notes", circa 1915

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents A collection of "items of interest which came to the attention of Father Barnum," originally filling four composition books. A later archivist then dismantled and filed them with pertinent collections or material. This folder contains those that were not separated and cover the following individuals (predominantly Jesuits), families, and places:(1) Fr. Jose Lopez, SJ (2) Fr. Philip Cardella, SJ (3) Fr. John Grassi, SJ (4) Fr. Felix Barbelin, SJ (5) Fr....
Dates: circa 1915

"Notes for a Memoir of Fr. Thomas Mulledy", circa 1915

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Extracts from Fr. Thomas Mulledy's record of mass intentions (see box 7 folder 1 of Mulledy's papers here) outlining events within the record "which may be useful in writing a memoir of Fr. Mulledy."

Dates: circa 1915