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19th Century American Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-190909
Scope and Contents

American 19th century commercial cartes de visites photograph album in tooled leather covers with ornate brass clasp. Contains 15 albumen print images, mostly cartes de visites of unidentified individual men and women. A few images show young children.

Dates: circa 1870s

26th Marine Expeditionary Unit - Second Liberian Civil War Digital Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20240201
Scope and Contents

208 digital images that document the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit's role in Second Liberian Civil War and 14 PowerPoint presentation files containing Daily Unclassified Intelligence Updates on the region. Also includes 1 Word document that contains information on Liberia that was provided to the 26th MEU and 1 text document provided by the donor with information on the collection.

Dates: 2003

David M. Abshire Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-830701
Scope and Contents

The Abshire papers contain materials relating primarily to his service with the U.S. State Department in the 1970s with the Murphy Commission (Commission for Organization of Government for Conduct of Foreign Policy), and to the history and operations of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (1974-1983, then connected with Georgetown University).

Dates: 1962 - 1982

Acadia Institute Bioethics Interview Collection

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Identifier: BRL-011
Abstract The collection consists of oral history interviews with prominent bioethicists and other individuals associated with the field conducted by Renée C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey for the Acadia Institute's Project on Bioethics in American Society. In 1997, the Acadia Institute began a multi-year study of bioethics in American society. As part of this project, Renée C. Fox, a sociologist, and Judith P. Swazey, a historian, conducted interviews with a number of promiment bioethicists and other...
Dates: 1997 - 2000

Samuel W. Anderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS196
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The Samuel W. Anderson papers contain correspondence collected during Anderson's public life (1948-1958), a number of official documents covering his tenure in public office, and some early articles written by Anderon. The greater part of the collection, however, consists of reports on various topics in international economic affairs, which Anderson compiled in consultation with various clients.

Dates: 1922-1959; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1958

John T. Appleby Papers

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-760201
Scope and Contents

The collection contains manuscripts of a number of Appleby's works on English medieval history and other subjects, some related correspondence, and photographs of Suffolk locales (some copies of 19th century prints). It also includes photographic copies of medieval manuscripts.

See the External Documents section below for the collection's inventory.

Dates: 1926 - 1969

Argentinian Jesuits collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS93
Scope and Contents note The Argentinean Jesuits Collection consists of eleven documents from early nineteenth century Buenos Aires, during the period of the return of the Society of Jesus and the South American liberation from Spain. The collection covers a variety of topics relating to the Society of Jesus in Buenos Aires. The first two documents from 1800 to 1802, relate to the Capuchin fathers in Buenos Aires. Several of the documents in the collection are petitions to the governing body of Buenos Aires, the...
Dates: 1800-1819; Majority of material found within 1800 - 1819

Thomas Armat papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS94
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Thomas Armat Papers consist of a few letters to Thomas Armat and members of his family and 67 glass negatives with photos of documents and early motion picture devices. The correspondence includes 1 letter from Thomas Edison to Armat crediting Armat with the invention of the motion picture projector and 1 letter from Orville Wright to Armat regarding the Smithsonian Institution. Many of the photos are of legal documents for a case, Armat Motion Picture Company v. Edison Manufacturing...
Dates: 1895-1978; Majority of material found within 1895 - 1946

Robert Low and Virginia Murray Bacon Papers

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Identifier: GTM-19840101
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 collection consists of the personal and professional papers of U.S. Congressman Robert Low and his wife, Washington D.C. socialite Virginia Murray Bacon. It includes correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, subject files, printed...
Dates: circa 1920s-1970s

James H. Bailey papers

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS402
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The papers of James H. Bailey comprise this collection. The first series is made up of alphabetically listed correspondence between Bailey and a number of scholars, associates, friends, and publishers. In particular there are numerous letters between Bailey and author Charles C. Tansill. He also corresponds with Peter Ireton, the Bishop of Richmond, and Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Many of the letters discuss Bailey's dissertation work or job positions...
Dates: 1945-1989; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1989

Barnes Publishing Company Photographic Archives

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Identifier: GTM-GAMMS63
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The Barnes Collection is the photographic morgue file of the Barnes Company, which specialized in the production of albums reproducing the faces and giving capsule biographies of members of Congress during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The collection includes 501 imperial carte de visite photographs, principally of members of Congress from 1872 to 1876, many of the photographs being embellished by added signatures trimmed from letters or other documents.

Dates: 1875 - 1880; Majority of material found in 1875 - 1875

The Road to Washington manuscript by Wilfred M. Barton

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-19330101
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.Autograph manuscript draft(s) of Dr. Wilfred M. Barton's The Road to Washington (1919), including photographs by the author used as illustrations in the book.The story describes Washington D.C. landmarks and provides facts...
Dates: 1919

Margaret K. Bearden papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS204
Introduction The Margaret Bearden Papers contain correspondence and audio tapes relating to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, including 3 boxes, encompassing 4.5 linear feet: 1 box of correspondence and 2 boxes of tapes. The correspondence is between Mrs. Bearden and a variety of fellow Lincoln assassination researchers and writers, including Otto Eisenschiml, David Rankin Barbee, Colonel Julian E. Raymond, Dr. Richard Mudd, et alia. The tapes are, for the most part, recordings of lectures...
Dates: 1944-1983

Beauchamp-Hughes Family collection

 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

Andres Benavente Urbina typescript on Chilean Political History

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-771006
Scope and Contents

Typescript by Andres Benavente Urbina on Chilean political history from the 1920s through the 1970s. Written in Spanish. 990 pages with corrections.

Dates: circa 1975

Carina Benjamin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-661214
Content Description

Letters written to the Countess Rachele Maria Carolina Toussaint de St. Seigne (b.1875 - d.1954). Correspondents include Amleto Giovanni, Cicognani Elia Cardinal Dalla Costa, Giovanni Battista Montini (Pope Paul VI), Francis Cardinal Spellman, and Domenico Tardini.

See External Documents below for folder list. Added folder #11 contains biographical information re Mary A. Benjamin and Walter R. Benjamin.

Dates: 1937-1953

Francis B. Biddle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS251
Collection-level Scope and Content Note This collection consists of the personal papers of former U.S. attorney general Francis Biddle. It is one of three portions comprising the larger collection of the Biddle Family papers that include the papers of his wife, Katherine Biddle and a series of family correspondence (see separate finding aids). Of interest are lengthy correspondence files relating to Biddle's appointments as judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1939); U.S. attorney general...
Dates: 1912 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1966

John W. Blaney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230821
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 collection documents the career of Ambassador John W. Blaney, including materials related to the Liberian civil war, the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, United Nations involvement in Southern Africa, and his post-State...
Dates: 1971 - 2023

Anna M. Brady Papers

 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

John C. Bucknill papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-761214
Dates: Majority of material found within 1857-1877

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