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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.

Correspondence, photographs, ledgers, genealogy, and other material (1850s-1910s) related to the family of Daniel Boone Clarke, a Washington, D.C. physician and graduate of Georgetown University.

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The James T. Clements' Sons Funeral Home Records consist of ledgers documenting the costs for funeral expenses and certificates of death for individuals whose families used the company's services. The funeral expenses were maintained in ledgers while the death certificates are in partly printed formant. The funeral home was located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The records date from 1875 to 1945.

Scope and Contents The papers of R. Emmett Curran, a longtime history professor at Georgetown University, consist of historical research material concerning two major topics: the history of Georgetown University and the history of the Catholic Church in America. The Georgetown University portion of the collection includes typed biographical files documenting faculty who taught at the college from 1789 to 1920 and students who attended the college from 1789 to 1955. The Georetown University-related material...

Scope and Contents The Maurice Jackson Papers consist of research files and printed materials produced and collected by Georgetown University history professor Maurice Jackson. A series of subject files maintained by Dr. Jackson include materials concerning the history of Washington, D.C., civil rights, and the Washington, D.C. race massacres of 1919 and 1968. Printed materials included in this collection pertain to African American history, communism, socialism, Marxism, Jewish affairs, the Soviet Union, and...

Scope and Contents The National Hotel Collection consists of five large register books listing the guests at the National Hotel in Washington, D.C. from 1851 to 1854. The hotel was the first hotel in the nation's capital approximating the size of a modern hotel. It was located at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 6th Street.The registers are in chronological order. The register entries list the names of the guests, the days they stayed, and their room numbers. The signature of each guest is...