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Garret G. Ackerson, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS162
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Garret G. Ackerson, Jr. Papers primarily consist of personal correspondence and are arranged in 148 folders and contained in 3 boxes. A majority of the collection consists of correspondence between Garret G. Ackerson, Jr. and his family, including his parents, Garret G. Ackerson, Sr. and Anna Ackerson, his wife Rhodita Edwards Ackerson, and his children. Of special interest are Ackerson's memoranda written during the outbreak of World War II when he was in almost daily contact with high...
Dates:
1923 - 1976; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1959
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
African American Soldiers in the Philippines Photograph Album
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 2 (Legal), Folder: 4
Identifier: GTM-20220902
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one photograph album that documents the experiences of an unidentified African American soldier in the Philippines towards the end of, or immediately after, World War II, around the year 1945. It includes snap shots, published commercial photographs, and postcards. The photographs primarily feature African American soldiers and also include local Filipinos and enemy combatants. The images document both work and leisure among the soldiers. It also includes the...
Dates:
1945, 1949
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Alumni Armed Forces World War II Letters
Collection
Identifier: GTA-GAMMS011
Scope and Contents
Transcriptions of letters received by Fr. Richard C. Law, SJ, Prefect of Discipline 1940-1946, and other faculty and staff at Georgetown University during World War II from alumni and other former students on active duty within the armed services. The letters discuss other alumni and provide glimpses of training, combat, or cultural experiences in North Africa, Europe, and China. Most of the information in these letters is found in digest form in the Discipline Office Newsletter (nos. 1-19),...
Dates:
1942 - 1946
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Walter S. Atkinson Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20240124
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the papers of Dr. Walter S. Atkinson. Of note is a scrapbook of photographs documenting Atkinson's service in World War II as a Hospital Commander in the Phillipines, where he organized and commanded the 107th Station Hospital. The scrapbook includes images of his fellow soldiers, the local population, aerial views, and a visit from Al Jolson.The collection also includes childhood portrait photographs, material related to the Georgetown Clinical...
Dates:
circa 1915-1968
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Ernesta Drinker Barlow Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-081118
Scope and Contents
A collection of the personal papers of Aimee Ernesta Drinker Barlow (1892-1981). Includes autograph memoir, travel diaries (from 1916 and early 1960s), correspondence received from husbands William C. Bullitt (1891-1967), former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union; and composer Samuel L.M. Barlow (1892-1982); as well as from admirers including the artist Rockwell Kent (1882-1971). Of note is an almost complete run of mimeographed scripts of NBC Radio broadcasts by Barlow as "Commando Mary"...
Dates:
1910 - 1962
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Alfred M. Beck collection of Friedrich von Boetticher research materials
Collection
Identifier: GTM-171212
Content Description
Research files and notes, transcriptions and translations, government documents, microfilm, photographs, and archival film footage and sound recordings compiled by Beck in the course of conducting research for his dissertation on the life of General der Artillerie [Lt. Gen.] Friedrich von Boetticher and his service as German military attaché in Washington, D.C., 1933-1941. Beck’s original dissertation, "The Ambivalent Attaché (1977, Ph.D. in History, Georgetown University) explored the...
Dates:
1900-2006; Majority of material found within 1930-1945
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Francis B. Biddle Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS251
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of the personal papers of former U.S. attorney general Francis Biddle. It is one of three portions comprising the larger collection of the Biddle Family papers that include the papers of his wife, Katherine Biddle and a series of family correspondence (see separate finding aids). Of interest are lengthy correspondence files relating to Biddle's appointments as judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1939); U.S. attorney general...
Dates:
1912 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1966
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Leon Biles, Jr. Military Service Photographs
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20210429
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one photograph album and loose photographic prints which belonged to Leon Biles, Jr. Biles was an African American U.S. Army soldier and the photographs document his military service from 1944 to 1947. The album consists of photographs taken or collected by Biles while serving stateside during World War II.The photographs are extensively captioned and include images of Biles' family in Minnesota, friends, fellow soldiers and sailors (some of whom are...
Dates:
1944 - 1947
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
Alonza E. Brown Military Records and Photographs
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20220901
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of military records and photographs of Alonza E. Brown, a African American who served in the U.S. Army during World War II. The collection includes his “Honorable Discharge” certificate (plus copy); “Separation Qualification Record” describing his military occupations (Engineer, Basic and Truck Driver, Heavy), training (Cooks School, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.), and civilian occupation (cook’s helper at Brown’s Restaurant in Philadelphia); and “Enlisted Record and Report...
Dates:
1943 - 1950
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Anthony Cave Brown Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-930701
Scope and Contents
The Anthony Cave Brown papers comprise the extensive research files of historian and author Anthony Cave Brown used for his numerous books about U.S. and British military intelligence. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, photocopied documents, internet printouts, printed matter, manuscripts of some of his books, audio cassettes, and some photographs. Documents pertaining to various figures in the intelligence field; including William Donovan, H. St. John B. Philby, and Kim...
Dates:
1930 - 2006
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Walter J. Ciszek, SJ Interviews
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS191
Scope and Contents
Consisting of audio taped interviews with Walter J. Ciszek, SJ, this collection documents the American-born Jesuit's life, ca. 1938-1963. Discussed are: his mission work in Poland and Russia, 1938-1941; arrest by Soviet secret police in 1941; imprisonment in Moscow and Siberia; and eventual release and return to the United States in 1963. The interviews are contained on 9 tapes (duplicates of tapes 1-8 included). The tapes give no indication, either on their face or by their content, of...
Dates:
1964
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Civilian Exclusion Order No. 79 Broadside
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 22 (Oversized), Folder: 1
Identifier: GTM-20231117
Scope and Contents
Civilian Exclusion Order No. 79. San Francisco: May 15, 1942. Broadside (sheet size 56 x 35.5 cm).Broadside notice from the Western Defense Command and Fourth Army Wartime Civil Control Administration regarding the 1942 relocation of Japanese Americans, dated May 15, 1942, excluding all persons of Japanese ancestry from a portion of Military Area No. 1 within King County, Washington, with specific boundary streets provided outlining the designated area, and calling for...
Dates:
1942
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Leo and Jane Codd papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-830131
Scope and Contents
The Leo and Jane Codd Papers contain correspondence to the Codds, photographs, and manuscripts. Correspondence, manuscripts, and related material is arranged alphabetically within the collection. The Codds lived in the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C., and enjoyed travelling, especially to Ireland. Much of their correspondence from friends and acquaintances refers to their trips to Ireland or to their hospitality and cordiality when guests visited them in Washington.The papers...
Dates:
1914 - 1973
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Contraste "du Classique au Jazz" Concert Program
Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 47 (Oversized), Folder: 1
Identifier: GTM-20250411
Content Description
Les Productions fumière présentent CONTRASTE "du Classique au Jazz." Theatre National du Palais de Chaillot, Paris, 15 Juin, 1945. Upright folio. 56 pp. Gray wrappers with raised embossed printing, bound with French red/white/blue twisted silk cord. Semigloss pages printed in black and white with blue highlighting, and including many illustration pages and some advertisements, interspersed with heavy stock pages, some with tipped-in semigloss reproductions of historic documents. Stamped 111...
Dates:
1945
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Ethel Crocker - Andre de Limur Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS344
Scope and Contents
The Crocker-de Limur Collection consists of historical and literary documents assembled by a family of collectors; a small portion of the papers of French diplomat Andre de Limur (1890?-1971); a small part of the papers of Ambassador Aime Joseph de Fleuriau, French Ambassador to Great Britain (1924-1933); French documents from the Bibliotheca Lindesiana concerning political matters in France in the 1790s; and oversized printed proclamations by the French Government during World War I....
Dates:
1737 - 1945
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
John R. Crown Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-0072
Scope and Contents
The Papers of John R. Crown includes materials related to World War II (pamphlets, a Pocket Guide to New Guinea, certificates, Nazi memorabilia), Georgetown University (especially alumni affairs and Kappa Alpha Phi fraternity, 1920s-1960s), U.S. politicians (inaugural materials related to Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson, photograph of John F. Kennedy, various autographs), the Catholic Church (Fulton J. Sheen and Francis J. Spellman), and Crown's personal life. It includes several...
Dates:
1848, 1918-1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
De Luca Family Papers and Photographs
Collection
Identifier: GTM-190709
Scope and Contents
The collection contains over 1,700 photographs and 400 documents recording the history of the De Luca family over 8 decades involving the American Civil War, the unification of Italy, the Japanese invasion of China and the Siege of Peking, and the attack on Pearl Harbor.
See the External Documents section below for more information on the collection.
Dates:
1860 - 1945
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Paul F. DuVivier Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-19911001
Scope and Contents
The collection contains Belgian anti-American newspaper cartoons of the Nazi period and World War II propaganda leaflets that were collected by Paul F. DuVivier during his internment during the war (1943-1944). It also includes some published reports written by Woodruff Wallner documenting the internment of U.S. foreign service and others by the Germans during the war.
The collection also includes letters from author Herman Wouk to DuVivier (1976-1988).
Dates:
1943-1944; 1976-1988
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Charles Murray Foster World War II Letters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-20240417
Scope and Contents
Collection of 380 letters written by Lt. Charles Murray Foster to his family while he served in the 1st Battalion of the 114th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army during World War II. It includes letters written when he was stateside (1942-1944) and while in France (1944-1945). 25 letters feature sketches by Foster, usually depicting other soldiers and scenes he observed while serving in France (collected in Binder 4).
Dates:
1942 - 1945
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts