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Various 19th century British letters, scrapbooks and photograph albums, collected by Prof. John Hirsh.

Scope and Contents note The George H. O'Connor Papers contain correspondence, photographs, programs, songs, music and cartoons, accumulated by O'Connor throughout his life. The correspondence includes letters from William H. Taft, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, J. Edgar Hoover, Cordell Hull, and Edward Stettinius. The most interesting letters are two written by O'Connor himself to his wife Blanche, while O'Connor was staying at Warm Springs with President Roosevelt.Perhaps the most...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Crocker-de Limur Collection, which consists of two boxes (2.5 linear feet) of documents, brings together a fine historical and literary documents collection gathered 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...

Scope and Contents Includes program and photographs. Highlighted productions include: School for Wives; Murder in the Cathedral; Summer and Smoke; Beekeeper; Tabletalk; Danny Boy; Mourning Becomes Electra; Calliope VII: One Sleepless Knight; If I had a Yardstick I Could Rule the World!; The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd; Richard III; Calliope VIII: Come Back Little Phoenix. Among those photographed: Nigel McLauchlan; Louis Pangaro; Russ Suda; Dan Ortmeyer; Arturo Rovera; Tom Lydon; Louis...

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Contains pPhotographs and clippings.

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Contains newspapers clippings. Topics covered include: interreligious Civil Rights Rally in McDonough Gymnasium and award of honorary degree to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson at convocation to mark the closing of the University's 175th Anniversary celebrations.

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Mainly relating to sports. Opening pages contain signatures and comments by students and comments on performances at local theaters (Poli's, New National, Belasco's, Hippodrone New York City). Includes tickets to dances, photographs of Collier Hall, the main gates, Washington, D.C., and Mount Vernon, and 1914-1915 Georgetown University Athletic Association football and baseball ticket. Also game statistics from the Sun Bowl 1950.

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Four scrapbooks of clippings, photographs, and letters relating to ROTC activities and personnel.

Scope and Contents Scrapbook of "School Memories". Includes: Georgetown pennant on front and back covers; College registration card; signature pages signed by faculty and classmates; text of freshmen rules and yells; ticket to the Democratic National Convention, June 1928, and United States Senate Chamber, December 31, 1926; flyer supporting candidacy of Joe Tanous for class president; clipping re appointment of W. Coleman Nevils, S.J., as University President, 1928; dance cards; menus; debate programs;...

Scope and Contents This scrapbook provides a sense of what life was like for women students at Georgetown in the late 1950s, especially in the Foreign Service School. It includes: a photograph of James M. Hunter, captioned “My favorite prof."; napkins/menus/matchbooks from local restaurants; tickets/programs from University events (such as a program from the honorary degree ceremony for German Foreign Minister Heinrich Von Bretano, March 7, 1957, which is captioned “Couldn’t understand his English");...

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Contains clippings about Georgetown Prep athletics (specifically its football, basketball, crew, and baseball teams.) References to Maurice Joyce, Patrick Dempsey, and the University boathouse are included.

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Contains scrapbook of material relating to Rome Schwagel. Among topics covered, his appointment as Graduate Manager of Athletics at Georgetown and his induction into the Navy, 1942. Included is a letter from Schwagel to his mother, dated November 13, 1942, written on Navy Dept., Bureau of Aeronautics, letterhead. Many of the articles relate to Georgetown sports and a photograph of the 1941 Orange Bowl football team is present.

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Contains clippings re Georgetown University/Washington, D.C., 1960. Among topics covered: residents’ protests against the conversion of three buildings on 36th and Prospect Streets for use as the 1789 restaurant; Archivist William C. Repetti, S.J., showing the Library's Tom Sawyer manuscript to local children; Rhodes Scholarship winner George P. Giard, Jr.; and blind Russian students learning foreign languages without visual aids. Also present, profile of Edward Bennett Williams.

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Contains clippings relating mainly to the Graduate School. Among topics covered: appointment of Robert I. Gannon, S.J., as President of Fordham, 1936; reorganization of graduate study and opening of the Graduate School at Georgetown, 1936; admission of women into the Graduate School, 1943; death of Aloysius J. Hogan, S.J., in 1944; and launching of the U.S.S. Ingraham by Tibor Kerekes in 1944.

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Two scrapbook leaves containing captioned snapshots. Among those photographed: Chat Lancaster; Thomas Gasson, S.J.; Bill Curtin; John Morris; Jack McNulty; Tom Burke; Joe Dilkes; Ted Delaney; Warrick Montgomery; Bob Zuger; Gaius Gannon; Charlie Cox; Bob Gorman; David I. Walsh; President John B. Creeden, S.J., at 1918 commencement; and Helen Kemp.

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Contains clippings about Georgetown University. Among topics covered: women students in the Nursing School taking courses in the College of Arts and Sciences; resumption of crew as a varsity sport; and deaths of Vladimir V. Gsovski, Paul R. Sullivan and Kelvin T. MacKavanagh, S.J. Also present, pictorial spread on the baptism of John F. Kennedy, Jr., by Martin J. Casey, S.J., in the Georgetown University Hospital chapel.

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Contains clippings re Georgetown football, basketball, and baseball. Includes line drawing of Jim Mooney and copy of the freshmen rules.

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Contains clippings and programs from the 1927 football season. Included at the back are snapshots of campus and Washington, D.C.