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Bill of Sale of Enslaved Man Joseph Egiton from George W. Lowe to Hanson Dines

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 2 (Legal), Folder: 19
Identifier: GTM-20230629
Scope and Contents 1840 Bill of Sale of an enslaved man named Joseph Egiton. Egiton was sold from George W. Lowe (of South Carolina) to Hanson Dines (of Washington, DC) for $150. The transaction was witnessed by Thomas and Edward Mattingly, District of Columbia, Washington County. Materials on Slavery Please note: Our objective is to make collection material related to slavery and enslaved people as accessible as possible to researchers. Researchers may,...
Dates: 1840
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Richard Billings papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-710103
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, statements, interviews, news releases, photographs, and newspaper clippings concerning the Garrison investigation of the Kennedy assassination as covered by Richard Billings, reporter for Life Magazine, 1967-1968.

Note: Click on "External Documents" below for a link to the finding aid for the collection.

Dates: 1935-1969
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Bioethics Research Library Archives Audiovisual Collection

 Collection
Identifier: BRL-019
Abstract

The collection consists of audiovisual recordings related to bioethics, the bulk of which are recordings of lectures delivered at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE). This includes the KIE's Intensive Bioethics Courses and Advanced Bioethics Courses. The recordings are in a variety of formats, including audio cassettes, compact discs, DVDs, micro cassettes, VHS cassette tapes, 1/4" open reel audio, and other formats.

Dates: 1974 - 2024
Found in: Bioethics Research Library Archives

Bioethics Research Library Collection of Newsletters

 Collection
Identifier: BRL-035
Abstract The collection consists of more than 250 publications created by organizations, universities, societies, and other groups to promote and examine bioethical issues. Some of these topics include: Abortion, AIDS and HIV, Animal research, Business ethics, End of life care, Euthanasia, Disability rights, Health care and law, Health care and religion/Christianity, Hospitals, Human experimentation, Human reproduction and family planning, Medical ethics, Medical humanities, Mental health ethics,...
Dates: 1963 - 2019
Found in: Bioethics Research Library Archives

Biographies and Autobiographies (Georgetown-Related)

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000556
Scope and Contents Box 1Edward B. Bunn, S.J. [typsecripts].William Gaston, Carolinian by Joseph Herman Schaulinger (G'39). Bruce Publishing Company: Milwaukee, 1949.Recollections and Reflections: An Autobiography of Half a Century and More by Wharton J. Green. Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, 1906.Passing for White: Race, Religion and the Healy Family, 1820-1920 by James M. O'Toole. University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.Bishop Healy:...
Dates: 1899-2002
Found in: Georgetown University Archives

Biology Senior Theses Abstracts

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-150807
Dates: Publication: 1997 - 2009; Publication: 2011
Found in: Georgetown University Archives

Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee Records

 Collection
Identifier: BRL-013
Abstract

The collection consists of records related to the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee (BEAC). BEAC was formed in 1987 to counsel the congressional members of the national Biomedical Ethics Board on ethical issues that arise in the delivery of healthcare and biomedical research.

Dates: 1988 - 1989
Found in: Bioethics Research Library Archives

Davidson Black - William Diller Matthew collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-931227
Scope and Contents note The Black-Matthew Collection consists of 19 transcribed letters between Davidson Black and William Diller Matthew, with 1 letter from Black to Herbert M. Evans regarding the above letters, from 1929 to 1932. The letters are arranged in 20 folders and contained in one box.Much of the correspondence between Black and Matthew regards contemporary theories surrounding Java Man, Sinanthropus, and Piltdown man, including Matthew's theores of how climate may have affected early man's...
Dates: 1929-31
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Thomas Blake Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-0026
Scope and Contents Papers of Thomas Dawes Blake, a public relations specialist who served in the U.S. State Department in the 1940s. It includes typescripts documenting his time working for the U.S. government during World War II, including his role as assistant to Stephen Early, press secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the reaction to the death of FDR by White House staff. It also includes a file on the Mexico Water Treaty (1945), a file of memoranda to Col. Behn from 1947 (while Blake was employed as...
Dates: 1947 - 1976
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

John W. Blaney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230821
Scope and Contents The collection consists of the papers, photographs, digital files, and artifacts produced and collected by Ambassador John W. Blaney over the course of his career. These items include official memoranda, performance evaluations, photographs, notebooks and calendars, speaking notes, newspaper clippings, honors, and memorabilia. The collection spans the 1970s to 2024, covering subjects that include: Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, the US/USSR arms control and...
Dates: 1971 - 2023
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

William P. Blatty Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-730327
Scope and Contents

The collection contains typed manuscripts and galley proofs for novels and screenplays by William P. Blatty. It also contains research materials related to the Exorcist, including letters from Father William S. Bowdern (1968-1975).

Dates: 1953-2010
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Robert Woods Bliss collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-761028
Scope and Contents note

Pamphlets, printed documents, transcripts, maps, and newspaper clippings assembled by Robert Woods Bliss. The material pertains chiefly to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, with a number of the documents dealing specifically with Russia. Bliss (1875-1962), career diplomat, was stationed at the American embassy in Paris as secretary and counselor from 1912-1920.

Note: Click on "External Documents" below for a link to the finding aid for the collection.

Dates: 1914-1921
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Blommer Science Library: Oversized

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000878
Content Description

Contains oversized items: posters of renovation photos from 1996 and a poster with guest signatures from the 50th anniversary celebration on September 20, 2012. Also contains an oversized board labeled "Interior Finish Samples" with swatches for paint, carpet and other finishing for the Blommer Science Library renovation in 1995.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1995 - 2012
Found in: Georgetown University Archives

Edward W. Bodnar, SJ Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-120731
Scope and Contents Series I includes only works by Edward Bodnar, whether originally authored by Bodnar or translated by him. The series contains multiple drafts of many of these works, from first draft tentative "sense-translations" to final drafts. The card catalogs included in the series also contain photographs of manuscripts found in many of the archives listed. Series II includes not only copies of Ciriaco manuscripts, but also Bodnar's notes on them organized by archive, then by individual...
Dates: 1960 - 2010
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Boggs Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-861226
Scope and Contents The Boggs Family Papers comprise twenty-one letters, two photographs and four pieces of related materials. Eleven of the letters were written by William R. Boggs, and ten of these were to his brother and sister, Maggie and Adam Boggs, while he was in the Union Army from 1863 - 1865. (Note: The William R. Boggs whose letters are in this Collection should not be confused with the Confederate Brigadier General of the same name.) There are two photographs of William Boggs and they appear to date...
Dates: 1863-1923
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Margaret Bonds Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-130530
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of hundreds of pages of Margaret Bond's music manuscripts and manuscript fragments, letters and cards from Langston Hughes and others, photographs, programs, and ephemera.

See the External Documents section below for a detailed inventory to the collection.

Dates: 1917-1971, 2020-2025; Majority of material found within 1930s-1970
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Booker Prize Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20240202
Scope and Contents

Primarily comprised of promotional ephemera related to the Booker Prize (1984, 1989, 1991, 1997-1998) and the Russian Booker Prize (1994-1997). Of note is an autographed photograph of Ben Okri and an illustrated broadside with an excerpt from The Famished Road.

Also includes three VHS recordings related to the 1998 Booker Prize (ceremony, discussion, and "shorts") and a "Handlist of Exhibitors Introduced by Lawrence Durrell" at the Fifth Antiquarian Book Fair in London (1962).

Dates: 1962 - 1998
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Booth Family Center Philatelic Collection

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 25, Folder: 9
Identifier: GTM-0027
Scope and Contents The collection consists of three philatelic items that were removed from other collections. It includes a United States 1893 Columbian Exposition Issue's 1-dollar stamp (Queen Isabella) on an auction card which was sent from H.R. Harmer to Virginia Murrary Bacon in 1946. The item was purchased by Robert Low Bacon.It also includes a postcard, franked with a United States $1.30 Graf Zeppelin stamp, sent to Robert F. Wagner by O.J. Butler depicting an airship over the...
Dates: 1893 - 1957
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Booth Family Center Songbook and Music Pedagogy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-0083
Scope and Contents The Booth Family Center Songbook and Music Pedagogy Collection contains items purchased from 2002 onwards by Special Collections staff using money from the Leon Robbin Library Endowment Fund. The collection is mostly comprised of manuscript song compilations created by non-professional musicians for private use in the home, by students or teachers for pedagogical purposes, or for liturgical use by church choirs or religious orders. Most of the songbooks are bound manuscripts, but a few...
Dates: early 17th century to early 20th century
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Marvin Bordelon Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-20240220
Scope and Contents Papers of Marvin Joseph Bordelon that document his work for the United States Catholic Conference as Director of the Division of World Peace and Justice (1967-1970) and the Director of the Department of International Affairs (1970-1972). It also documents his work for the American Conference on Religious Movements (1987-1999). Materials include correspondence, reports, articles, organizational records, and biographical materials.See the External Documents section below for a...
Dates: 1967 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1997
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

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