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Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS265
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
A testament to the eventful and extraordinary life of one of the most accomplished career women of the 20th century, the Clare Boothe Luce Photographic Collection is comprised of personal and professional photographs taken throughout the life of Clare Boothe Luce. Always in the public eye and internationally known, Luce was constantly photographed and featured in magazines, especially those of her husband, Henry Robinson Luce, co-founder of Time Inc. Quite aware of her own good looks, Luce...
Dates:
1805 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1970
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-770930
Scope and Contents
A collection of autograph letters to/from members of the Beauchamp and Hughes families including Louise Augusta Beauchamp, her husband David M. Hughes, their daughter Lolita Beauchamp Hughes. Notable correspondents include Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Thomas Henry Husley, Robert Mullan, John Pagrave Simpson, Anthony Trollope, and Sir Mordant Wells, among others.Other materials include: 1.Photographs; 2. Printed sheet music composed by Lolita Beauchamp Hughes; 3. Newspaper...
Dates:
1855-1903
Collection
Identifier: GTM-000003
Collection Level Scope and Contents note
During the nineteenth century great fortunes were made by various entrepreneurs in the cotton industry of Lancashire. One of the most remarkable of these cotton masters was Edward Hermon (1821?-1881), the managing partner of Horrocks, Miller & Company, an early giant in the field. Hermon became the conservative M.P. for Preston (1868-1881) as well as an eminent art collector, sportsman, philantropist and builder. His papers, dating between 1864 and 1867, cover a variety of topics, but...
Dates:
1864-1897
Collection
Identifier: GTM-130529
Scope and Contents
Various 19th century British letters, scrapbooks and photograph albums, collected by Prof. John Hirsh.
Dates:
1816-1980
Collection
Identifier: GTM-000622
Scope and Contents
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Dates:
1912 - 1989
Collection
Identifier: GTM-961216
Scope and Contents note
Collection pertains to Princess Niloufer Farhat Begum Sahiba (January 4, 1916 – June 12, 1989).
Dates:
1930 - 1989
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-150528
Scope and Contents
Manuscript account of the life of Saint Colette (b.1381-1447), as related by the Abbot of Saint-Laurent (c.1750-1770). Full title in French: "La Vie de la bienheureuse Collette Reformatrice des Religieuses de Sainte Claire."
Bound volume, 285 pages.
Dates:
1750-1770
Item
Identifier: GTM-140117
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed to Stephen Van Rensselaer. Georgetown [District of Columbia]: 21 February 1828, small 4to, 2 pp.
Dates:
1828
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-150615
Content Description
Scrapbook belonging to a British woman, containing cut silhouettes, paste-in watercolors and pencil sketches re European tour and trip to South America.
Dates:
1820 - 1849
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-170130
Content Description
Woman's scrapbook containing autograph transcriptions of poetry; sketches, printed engravings.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1820 - 1849
Collection
Identifier: GTM-121205
Scope and Contents note
Research materials relating to the book "Mary Suratt: An American Tragedy" by Elizabeth Trindal (1996).
Dates:
1861 - 2011
Collection
Identifier: GTM-130912
Scope and Contents
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 Nancy Horton Papers consists of correspondence, financial records, notes, and audiovisual recordings.The papers include materials related to her father George Horton, including letters written to Nancy Horton from George...
Dates:
1912 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1990
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS330
Scope and Contents
The Anna M. Brady Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs that document the career of Anna M. Brady, a Catholic journalist who for many years was the dean of the Vatican press corps, covering synods, papal conclaves, and the Second Vatican Council. There is much about those events and about the Catholic Intercontinental Press. Of note is an extensive run of correspondence of Felix Morlion, O.P. There are also some fine original photographs of Pope Paul VI, Pope John...
Dates:
1938 - 1982
Collection
Identifier: GTM-840321
Content Description
Transcripts and published material such as conference proceedings, newsletters, and broadcast (radio and television) programs sponsored by the NCCW, including “Catholic Hour”. Box 1. Catholic Hour transcripts 1965-1968 (radio) 4 ring binders.Box 2. 4 ring binders
“Catholic Hour” transcripts 1965-1966 (television)
“Catholic Hour” newsletter 1960-1961
“Directions ‘64” (ABC TV) transcripts 1964-1964; including “Catholic Hour” 1966Box 3
10 open reel audio...
Dates:
1932-1968
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS172
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Lisa Sergio Papers span the career of this eminent woman. The bulk of the material dates from 1937 to 1988. Material includes correspondence, manuscripts of books and articles, transcripts for lectures, addresses, and radio broadcasts. Files cover a wide range of subjects that interested Ms. Sergio, as well as organizations in which she participated. A photographs series includes Ms. Sergio and her many contacts with notable individuals. An audio-visual series includes recordings of...
Dates:
1900-1989; Majority of material found within 1937-1988
Collection
Identifier: GTM-170411
Content Description
Typescripts of WQXR New York, radio broadcasts by Lisa Sergio.
Dates:
1939-1945
Collection
Identifier: GTM-830515
Scope and Contents
Letters; manuscripts; and printed ephemera, including exhibition catalogs pertaining to American artist and muralist Violet Oakley (1874-1961). Includes letters to Edith Emerson (1888-1981), American artist and Oakley's life-long partner. Correspondents include other artists: Maxwell Armfield and Charles Hopkinson, as well as architect William Penn Cresson. Collection includes 7 glass plate negatives (Box 2) and 8 black and white photographs (Folder 1:10) of Oakley's drawings of ...
Dates:
1900 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1959
