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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prefect of Schools Records

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-GAMMS267
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1842-1942

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)

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

Presidential Autographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-140212
Scope and Contents note

The Presidential Autographs Collection contains documents written by or signed by American presidents from George Washington through Ronald Reagan. The documents are sorted first in order of the president's term of office and then chronologically. The sequence begins anew with each box of oversized materials. This extensive collection provides valuable information for scholars of the American presidency.

Dates: 1777-1989

Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues Records

 Collection
Identifier: BRL-016
Scope and Contents The collection contains the records of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. These include meeting materials (agendas and briefing books), project reports and background research files, educational materials, and the Commission's website. The website includes a wide variety of content related to the Commission, including sections on their meetings (agendas, transcripts,...
Dates: Majority of material found within 2010 - 2017; 1975-1977, 2000-2017

President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research Records

 Collection
Identifier: BRL-003
Abstract The collection documents 28 meetings of the President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research held between 1980 and 1983. It includes briefing books, subject files, meeting minutes/transcripts, and other documents related to the Commission's work. This congressionally mandated group was formed in 1978, succeeding the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. It worked independently...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1978 - 1983; 1964 - 1983

Presidents’ Correspondence and Other Materials (Richards, Whitney, Daugherty), 1888-1904

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000010
Scope and Contents Included are copies of outgoing letters from the tenures of three Georgetown University Presidents - J. Havens Richards (1888-1898), John D. Whitney (1898-1901) and Jerome Daugherty (1901-1905), as well as incoming correspondence received by Father Richards between 1888 and 1898. A volume listing major donations to Georgetown University, 1891-1898, is also present. The correspondence documents the work of Presidents Richards, Whitney and Daugherty during a period of major reform...
Dates: 1872 - 1904; Majority of material found within 1888 - 1898

President’s Council on Bioethics Records

 Collection
Identifier: BRL-015
Abstract The collection contains the records of the President's Council on Bioethics (PCBE) dating from 2001 to 2009. It includes meeting briefing books and an unpublished draft of a report titled Organ Transplantation: An Ethical Inquiry by the President's Council on Bioethics (June 2009). The PCBE's website is included as part of this collection. The website includes meeting agendas,...
Dates: 2001 - 2009

President's Office: Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J. Inauguration Certificates

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000191
Scope and Contents

Contains certificates from various colleges and universities on the occasion of Leo J. O'Donovan, S.J.'s inauguration as the forty-seventh president of Georgetown University on September 23, 1989.

Dates: 1989

Mary Eleanor Price Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-130731
Scope and Contents

Photocopied material relating to U.S. Navy nurse Mary Eleanor Price. Includes copy of Price's Master's thesis.

Dates: 1945 - 1988

Miguel Pro Execution Scrapbook

 Collection — Box: GTM Shared Box 5 (Letter), Folder: 13
Identifier: GTM-20221201
Scope and Contents Scrapbook documenting the execution of Fr. Miguel Pro Juarez and two other men in Mexico on November 23, 1927, for an alleged attempt on the life of former Mexican President Álvaro Obregón. It includes photographs of the execution and of Pro's funeral. The scrapbook contains notes on the execution and an explanation of the origin of the scrapbook by Mary D. Kenna.The scrapbook was sent to Fr. Nevils, "Archivist of Georgetown University," by Mary D. Kenna of New York City in1942...
Dates: 1927, 1942

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Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 3
Jesuits 3
Kilmer, Joyce, 1886-1918 3
O'Gorman, Ned, 1929-2014 3
United States. Central Intelligence Agency 3
United States. Navy 3
White, Antonia, 1899-1980 3
Bacon, Robert Low, 1884-1938 2
Bacon, Virginia Murray, 1890-1980 2
Barbor, Dave 2
Blaney, John W. 2
Blatty, William Peter 2
Booker Prize Foundation 2
Center for Applied Linguistics 2
Clinton, Hillary Rodham 2
Cook-Deegan, Robert M. 2
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Duran, Leopoldo 2
Edmund D. Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics 2
Engert, Cornelius Van Hemert, 1887-1985 2
Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service 2
Horton, George, 1859-1942 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 2
Kilmer, Aline, 1888-1941 2
Kilmer, Kenton, 1909-1995 2
Krogh, Peter F. (Peter Frederic) 2
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 2
Mishkin, Barbara 2
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature 2
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei 2
Newman, John Henry, Saint, 1801-1890 2
Parsons, Wilfrid, 1887-1958 2
Porter, Cole, 1891-1964 2
Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 2
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909 2
Terry, Mickey Thomas 2
United States Information Agency 2
United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Ethics Advisory Board 2
United States. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research 2
United States. President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research 2
Warnke, Paul C. (Paul Culliton), 1920-2001 2
Welch, Edward H., 1822-1904 2
Abshire, David M. 1
Advisory Committee to the Director, National Institutes of Health. Human Embryo Research Panel 1
Alessandri, Jorge, 1896-1986 1
American Conference on Religious Movements 1
American Teilhard de Chardin Association 1
Amrine, Michael, 1919?-1974 1
Appleby, John T. (John Tate), 1907-1974 1
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 1
Arnow, Kathryn Smul 1
Ashcanase, Abe S., 1919-2013 1
Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training 1
Atchity, Kenneth John 1
Ateneo de Zamboanga 1
Atkinson, Walter Sydney, 1891-1978 1
Attwood, Peter, 1682-1734 1
Ayscough, John, 1858-1928 1
Bader, Franz, 1903-1994 1
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975 1
Bakman, Patrick 1
Baldwin, Joseph Clark, 1897-1957 1
Bancroft, Elizabeth 1
Barber, Virgil, 1782-1847 1
Barger, Thomas C. 1
Barnard and Buckey 1
Barry, Philip, 1896-1949 1
Bartlett, Charles, 1921-2017 1
Barton, Wilfred M. (Wilfred Mason), 1871-1930 1
Basset, Gene, 1927- 1
Bauer, Mark H., 1912-1986 1
Baumiller, Robert C. 1
Baydalakoff, Victor M., 1900-1967 1
Beadnall, James 1718-1772 1
Beauchamp, Tom L. 1
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 1
Beckwith, Albert A., 1909-1983 1
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 1
Bellwoar, Vincent I., 1906-1990 1
Benavente, Andrés 1
Bensky, Roger-Daniel 1
Bent, George, 1843-1918 1
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