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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000632
Scope and Contents
Printed material. Includes issues of "View from the Outside" newsletter, Not With My Life You Don't: A Georgetown Student Handbook, and Abolish ROTC pamphlet.
Dates:
ca. 1969
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Students of Georgetown, Inc. (The Corp): Uncommon Grounds
Collection
Identifier: GTA-20240701
Lawrence H. Suid Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-770325
Scope and Contents
The collection documents cooperation between U.S. military officials and the film industry in the 20th century. It consists of oral history interviews (recordings and transcripts) conducted by Lawrence Suid with screenwriters, producers, directors, actors, military technical advisors, public relations officers, and others, as well as subject files on films that were studied by Suid in the preparation of his groundbreaking study "Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image",...
Dates:
1900 - 2010
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Sullivan Family Genealogy Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTA-130130
Scope and Contents
Two volumes on the Sullivan Family of Washington, D.C., several of whom graduated from Georgetown University. One volume, taken out of its original binder, has a cover sheet and photographs/other documents on: Francis Paul Sullivan, br, 1882, graduated from Georgetown in 1904; Francis Paul Sullivan, br. 1912; Thomas Joseph Sullivan, br. 1845; Mary Eleanor Sullivan, died 1962; Joseph Daniel Sullivan, br. 1877; Thomas Vincent Sullivan, graduated from Georgetown, died 1934; Frederick Robert...
Dates:
1889-1977 and Undated
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Leonor K. Sullivan - Panama Canal Treaty Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-761019
Scope and Contents
The collection pertains primarily to U.S.-Panama treaty negotiations relating to the Panama Canal and a proposed interoceanic Atantic-Pacific sea-level canal. The collection consists of copies of documents held by the St. Louis University Law Library.
Dates:
1943 - 1976
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Paul R. Sullivan Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-870923
Scope and Contents note
The Paul Sullivan Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and related printed ephemera regarding Paul Sullivan's remarkable career. The papers are organized in six distinct groups, namely Correspondence, Subject File, Blue and Gray, High Latitudes, Personal, Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Series. The collection comprises 7.5 linear feet of material, and it is organization by series in five boxes with a total of two hundred and fifty four folders. While the Paul...
Dates:
1930 - 1961
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Peter J. Sullivan Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS437
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Peter J. Sullivan Papers document the life and times of Peter J. Sullivan (1821-1883), who was a Union officer in the American Civil War and the U.S. Minister to Colombia from 1867 to 1869. While there are a limited number of documents concerning his Civil War career, the majority of the papers describe his work as U.S. Minister to Colombia. The papers include a large run of letters to and from U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward; U.S. Consul in Cartagena, Colombia Augustus S....
Dates:
1843 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1869
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Summer School / School for Summer and Continuing Education Brochures
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000127-DS
Summer School/Sumer and Continuing Education School: Writers Conference
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000210
Scope and Contents
Mainly brochures. Also includes newsletters and other printed material.
Dates:
1961-1984 (with some gaps)
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Montague Summers Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-110501
Scope and Contents
The Montague Summers papers comprise the surviving collection of letters, manuscripts, and printed ephemera belonging to this popular author at the time of his death in 1948. A significant portion of the collection consists further of the papers of Summers' friend, the English author and literary biographer S.M. Ellis, which came into Summers' possession after Ellis' death in 1933 (Summers dedicated his 1933 anthology, Victorian Ghost Stories, to the memory of S.M.E.)....
Dates:
1845 - 1949; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1945
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Sunday Morning Group
Collection
Identifier: GTA-150701
Content Description
Materials relating to a Jesuit/faculty discussion group which met in the Jesuit Residence. Group members were mainly Roman Catholic and met to consider how the University could offer the best Jesuit education to students. Includes roster of group members as well as copies of articles, etc. discussed.
Dates:
1975-1981
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Japanese sutra scroll, Bussetsu Amida Kyo
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 39
Identifier: GTM-0065
Scope and Contents
Mortuary scroll with the text of the Bussetsu Amida Kyo, or the Shorter Amida Sutra, written in shell gold on indigo-dyed paper; the calligrapher dates the scroll to 1688, one year after the death of their father.
Dates:
1688
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
E. H. Swaim Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-830601
Scope and Contents Note
The E.H. Swaim Collection is comprised of correspondence, documents, manuscripts, photographs and newspaper clippings. The collection was assembled in its present state by E.H. Swaim, an attorney in Eden, Texas, who has a strong interest in the Lincoln assassination and John Wilkes Booth. The collection, which consists in part of the papers of Finis L. Bates, W.P. Campbell, and Clarence True Wilson, concerns the events surrounding Lincoln's assassinaiton and Booth's flight from Washington....
Dates:
1865 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1902 - 1930
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Lucile Swan Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS184
Scope and Contents
The Lucile Swan Papers contain correspondence from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to Lucile Swan and from Claude Cuenot to Lucile Swan; Teilhard de Chardin writings/essays; printed materials about Teilhard, many written by friends and colleagues; and photographs of Teilhard and various friends.Please note that although correspondence and other materials within this collection use "Peking" or "Peiking" for the Chinese city in their content, this finding aid uses "Beijing" in its...
Dates:
1907 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1955
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Lucile Swan Photograph Album
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-090102
Scope and Contents
A photograph album from Lucile Swan's life in China (1930-1939), including pictures of her sculpting, Chinese cultural events, the landscape of Beijing, and her friend John Carter Vincent (a Foreign Service Officer) and his wife Elizabeth ("Betty").
Dates:
1930 - 1939
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Sweeney, John F. X., SJ, Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20210621
Content Description
This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.
The collections contains the personal and professional papers, correspondence, lectures and photographs of John F.X. Sweeney, S.J.
Dates:
1899 - 1971
William E. Swift, Sr. - Panama Canal Collection
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 25, Folder: 6
Identifier: GTM-20240308
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of papers and photographs that belonged to William E. Swift, Sr., who served as a civil engineer during the construction of the Panama Canal. It includes Monthly Output notes for the Culebra Section of the Canal all for October 1904; 1 photo of Swift's engineering crew (June-August 1905), 20 commercial photographs of towns, local residents, and some construction, all with following stamp on back: "W.A. Fishbaugh, Photographer. Empire, C.Z., Panama”; 1 copy of a page...
Dates:
1904 - 1905
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Christopher Sykes Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS207
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The archives of the English novelist Christopher Sykes, friend and official biographer of Evelyn Waugh, include a large group of Waugh letters and comprehensive research files about him. In addition to the extensive family correspondence, with a charming series of rebus letters from his sister Angela Antrim, there are letters from a multitude of literary friends and acquaintances, including John Betjeman, Max Beerbohm, Ivy Compton-Burnett, T. S. Eliot, Graham Greene, Harman Grisewood, Nancy...
Dates:
1945 - 1981
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Sykes, Christopher, Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-020228
Content Description
Photocopies of correspondence between Christopher Simon Sykes and his brother Richard Sykes (dated 1930-1978). Includes letters to the former's uncle, British writer Christopher Sykes (born 1907-1986) from Patrick Balfour, Cyril Connell, Harman Grisewood, Rupert Hart-Davis, Roy Howard, Joan Hoare, and Serena James (photocopies).
Dates:
1928 - 1978
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Harry Sylvester Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS220
Scope and Contents
The major portions of the Harry Sylvester Papers consist of correspondence and manuscripts for his published novel, “Moon Gaffney”; and an unpublished work, “A Watch in the Night.” Notable correspondents include writers, publishers, scholars, political and religious leaders, such as Harry L. Binsse, Paul Beecher Blanshard, Harvey Breit, Dorothy Day, William A.S. Dollard, Waldo Frank, John Farrar, Brendan Gill, Matthew Hoehn, Nathan I. Hentoff, Stanley J. Kunitz, Eugene J. and...
Dates:
1930 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts