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Showing Collections: 1241 - 1260 of 1818

Playing Card Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000584
Scope and Contents Authors. 1119. U.S. Playing Card Co., Cinicinnati, U.S.A. Copyright, 1897. Authors represented include Will Carlton, Eugene Field, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Reade, Robert Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Buchanan Read, J. Feinmore Cooper, Robert Burns, Oliver Goldsmith, William Dean Howells, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wordsworth, Thomas Moore, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Louis Blafour Stevenson, William Mkaepeace Thackeray, Alexander Pope, Helen Hunt Jackson,...
Dates: 1897-1916 and Undated
Found in: Georgetown University Archives

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Pope Pius XII Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000939
Content Description This collection documents the relationship between Pope Pius XII and Georgetown University, starting with his visit to campus in the fall of 1936 as Cardinal Pacelli, when he received an honorary degree. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets regarding the Cardinal and figures including Georgetown President Fr. Arthur A. O’Leary S.J. and papal duchess Genevieve Brady are among other assorted documents surrounding the Pope’s time on the Hilltop and in the United States as a whole....
Dates: 1930, 1936-1958
Found in: Georgetown University Archives

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Postcard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000339
Scope and Contents Includes black-and-white and color postcards, most unsent. Box 1 consists of images of campus and building exteriors and interiors.Some sets are present. Included are: Exterior: Aerial Shots (14); Lateral View from Potomac (16); Observatory Hill (3); School of Nursing (St. Mary's) (1); Medical Dental Building (1); Old Medical School (10); Front Gates (Old-5/First Remodel-5/New-3); Georgetown University Hospital (New-3, Old-2); Old North (6); Dahlgren Chapel...
Dates: ca. 1909-1960
Found in: Georgetown University Archives

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Daily News Bulletins (Office of Discipline/Student Personnel/Student Activities)

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-GAMMS281
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Daily News Bulletins were typed informational notices posted on campus each day by the Office of Discipline and its successor offices, the Office of Student Personnel and the Office of Student Activities. They provide information on daily routines and schedules and note such things as: meetings of students groups; sporting events or practices; dances and proms; meal times; and confession schedules. They contain reminders about regulations, particularly for parking and attire, and also...
Dates: 1933-1970; Majority of material found within 1933 - 1970
Found in: Georgetown University Archives

Prefect of Schools Records

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-GAMMS267
Scope and Contents

Included are diaries, examination subjects, and theses for disputation.

Dates: 1842-1942
Found in: Georgetown University Archives

Prefect of Schools Diary, 1893-1903

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000149
Scope and Contents

Label on front cover reads: " Senior? 1893-1895 and 1897-1903. College and Prep". Originally intended to be the diary of the Prefect of Discipline, this became the diary of the Prefect of Schools (per note on page 4). It contains brief, daily notes on campus happenings. Reference is made to recreational activities (particularly sports and plays), examinations, etc. Mention is made of the death of Louis F. Hogan, Class of 1894, in entry for 10/17/1893.

Dates: 1893-1895, 1897-1903 (with gaps)
Found in: Georgetown University Archives

President Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J.: Photograph Album of Visit to Korea

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000060
Scope and Contents

Contains color photographs. Foreign Service School Dean Peter F. Krogh is included in some of the shots.

Dates: October 1993
Found in: Georgetown University Archives

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