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Robert Fergusson Papers 1
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS263
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Robert Fergusson Papers document the business activities of Robert Fergusson (d. 1813), a tobacco factor operating in Port Tobacco, Maryland. The collection includes both incoming and outgoing correspondence of Fergusson. Alexander Hamilton (d. 1799), a tobacco factor in Piscataway, Maryland, is a principal correspondent. Other correspondents include Dumfries [Virginia] merchants George Gray and Alexander Henderson, James Brown & Company of Glasgow [Scotland], and others. John...
Dates:
1717 - 1810; Majority of material found within 1780 - 1800
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Robert Fergusson Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS449
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Robert Fergusson Papers 2 consist of three documents concerning the tobacco trade in late 18th century America. One document was received in 1771 in Piscataway, Maryland by noted tobacco factor Alexander Hamilton the merchant (not the more famous politician by that name), and it touches on economic activities. A second document is a ledger of Neil Jamieson in account with John Brown & Company, detailing commercial items purchased in 1774. The third document, dated 1789, is an account...
Dates:
1771 - 1789
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Filming of The Exorcist: Photographs
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000824
Scope and Contents
Black and white photographs showing the filming of The Exorcist movie at sites on Georgetown University's campus, including in and around Healy Hall.
Dates:
October 1972
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
The First Booke of the Christian Exercise Manuscript
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: GTM-20081001
Scope and Contents
A small (roughly 12mo) bound manuscript on paper containing a handwritten copy of the 1584 printed edition of The First Booke of the Christian Exercise by Jesuit leader Robert Persons. The date 1654 is included at the bottom of the title page and at the end of the volume, likely indicating the year in which the copy was made.The 1584 edition copied here is scarce in print, with only two copies listed on the English Short Title Catalog: one at the...
Dates:
circa 1654
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
First Quarter Century: Women of Georgetown College
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000196
Scope and Contents
Booklet includes text of honorary degree citation for Dorothy Quincy Thomas, text of address by Dorothy Quincy Thomas at commencement 1995, and recollections of Georgetown experiences and subsequent careers by Mary Averil Riley (Perkins), Susan M. Cardinal (Porreco), Jo Ann Tierney (Berretta), Colette K. Bohatch, Donnis J. de Camp, Joan Coughlin (Kane), Mary K. Connor (Nolan), Mary Anne Farrell, Joann C. Carpenter (Kaczmarek), Carol-Mae F. Campion (Sack), Margaret M. Crocco (Smith), Mary T....
Dates:
Spring 1995
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Edwin C. Fishel Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS278
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Edwin C. Fishel Papers contain research material generated by Civil War historian Edwin C. Fishel for his book "The Secret War for the Union: The Untold Story of Military Intelligence in the Civil War." Of note is correspondence between Fishel and noted Civil War historians, such as Bruce Catton, James M. McPherson, and Stephen W. Sears. Also, Fishel's extensive subject files on a variety of topics are retained. In addition, drafts of Fishel's masterpiece are preserved, and copies of his...
Dates:
1918 - 1999; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1990
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
John Fitzgerald Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-150601
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence and indenture documents relating to the affairs of Colonel John Fitzgerald that relate to local affairs in northern Virginia in the 1790s.
Dates:
1780-1820
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Maria Fitzherbert Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-150617
Scope and Contents
Collection of letters by and about Maria Fitzherbert (b.1756-1837). Includes miscellaneous documents including copies of wills (1830, 1832).
Dates:
circa 1786-1837
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
John C. Fitzpatrick papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-810909
Collection level scope and contents note
The John C. Fitzpatrick Papers consist mainly of the correspondence, manuscripts, notes, and sketches of John Clement Fitzpatrick (1876 - 1940) together with genealogical material about the Fitzpatrick and Combs families, including clippings, family journals, and a large number of photographs. The genealogical portion of the collection was put together in part by Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Gerrety, the only child of John C. Fitzpatrick. Included in the collection are also sets of her...
Dates:
1804-1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Newman Flower Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS300
Scope and Contents
The Sir Newman Flower Papers consist of correspondence to Newman Flower from various figures regarding the publishing business at Cassell and Company Limited, the firm Flower directed. Correspondents include such noted writers as Augustine Bissell, Beatrice Harradan, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Max Pemberton, Ernest Raymond, Ethel Mary Savage, and Humbert Wolfe. The bulk of the letters are written by Beatrice Harradan, Ernest Raymond, and Ethel Mary Savage.
Dates:
1912-1946; Majority of material found within 1912-1928
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Football Film
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000550
Dates:
Event: 1969; Event: Majority of material found within 1973 - 2012; Event: Undated
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Foreign Service School Dean (Krogh): Annual Reports
Collection
Identifier: GTA-161111
Content Description
SFS annual reports, 1970-1995
Dates:
1971-1995
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Foreign Service School: J. Raymond Trainor Files
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000327
Scope and Contents
Includes registration material, class schedules, enrollment statistics, syllabi, reading lists and other teaching material, and material re production of catalogs. Also, correspondence with Guillermo A. Sherwell, including his letter of resignation from the faculty, 12/08/1921.
Dates:
1920-1948
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Foreign Service School: Program for Jewish Civilization (PJC)
Collection
Identifier: GTA-051212
Foreign Service School: Qatar
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000064
Foreign Service School: Qatar
Collection
Identifier: GTA-110723
Scope and Contents
Contains SFS-Q tote bag and two water botles. Also map of Doha.
Dates:
ca. 2005.
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Foreign Service School: Qatar
Collection
Identifier: GTA-180730
Foreign Service School: Qatar: Communications Office
File
Identifier: GTA-000879
Foreign Service School: Syllabi
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTA-181109
Content Description
Contains copies of various syllabi from history courses and interdisciplinary courses offered through the Foreign Service School. See folder listings for more detail.
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1989-2001
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Foreign Service School: Syllabi
Collection
Identifier: GTA-901023
Scope and Contents
Contains two volumes of course syllabi compiled by Assistant Dean Thomas H. Healy. One volume contains syllabi from the following classes: Political and Diplomatic History of Modern Europe taught by Baron Serge A. Korff; Applied Geography; Commercial Policies and Treaties taught by William S. Culbertson; International Law taught by James Brown Scott, assisted by Thomas H. Healy; French Language: Elementary, Advanced, Diplomatic taught by Jean J. Labat; Economics I taught by...
Dates:
1923-1924; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1924
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives