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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 — Box: 1, Folder: 1-11
Identifier: GTM-810727
Scope and Contents
Personal papers of Rose Marie Audette, a graduate of Georgetown University, College of Arts and Sciences, Class of 1981..
Folder 1. Senior thesis, Georgetown University, 1981. Title: "Everything in Moderation: Social Activism and University Reform, Georgetown University, 1960-1970."
Folders 2-11. Files pertaining to Community Action Coalition, a Georgetown University student organization.
Dates:
1979-1982
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
Identifier: GTM-161110
Content Description
Resource material relating to Gurvin's work as assistant cultural affairs officer at the U.S. Information Agency. Includes Federal reports and publications by private organizations regarding cultural and educational funding and support abroad.
Dates:
1970-2000
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-790112
Content Description
Correspondence, promotional materials and newspaper/article clippings relating to the tercentenary celebration of the birth of Elena Piscopia (1646-1684), first woman to receive a PhD in 1678.
Dates:
1970 - 1978
Collection
Identifier: GTM-620301
Content Description
Original and photocopied correspondence between Sister Miriam Gallagher, R.S.M.; H.L. Mencken; Odell Shepherd; and others.
Dates:
1925-1960
Collection
Identifier: GTA-120227
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS250
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The papers of Katherine Biddle are organized into nine series: 1. Individuals - Correspondence with notable individuals, including composers, musicians, poets and writers (see biographical note below for a list of names). 2. Alphabetical correspondence - Frequent correspondents, arranged by name. 3. Chronological correspondence - Arranged alphabetically by year. 4. Literary associations, publications and publishers - Related correspondence files. Of particular note are files relating to the...
Dates:
1855 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1969
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-GAMMS136
Scope and Contents
Elizabeth Jennings papers 2, consists of manuscripts and notebooks of autograph first drafts of poems, dating from 1972 to 1983,by English poet Elizabeth Jennings (1926-2001).
Dates:
1972-1988
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS173
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Note to the legacy print version of this finding aid.The Elizabeth Jennings papers 1 consists of correspondence sent and received by the poet. Correspondence is organized by individual name and arranged alphabetically. Also included is correspondence from cultural organizations, museums, and publishers, as well as fan letters. Notable correspondents include many contemporary poets and writers such as, John Betjeman, Charles Causley, Cecil Day-Lewis,...
Dates:
1957-1989; Majority of material found within 1969-1989
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS420
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Vivien Greene papers consist of six letters written to Vivien Greene, the wife of noted English Catholic author Graham Greene. A letter from Graham to Vivien sent from Berlin, Germany, refers to the Berlin Wall restrictions. Other correspondents include Tom Cordishley, Marie Belloc Lowndes, and Columba Ryan. The letters date mostly from the 1940s.
Dates:
1941-1948
