Collection-level Scope and Content Note This collection consists of the four folios of General Wright's scrapbook which contains primarily news items relating to the proposed construction of the Panama Canal. Some letters, notes, and sketches by Wright are included, along with printed maps showing the different interoceanic routes that were considered. In addition, the scrapbook includes a letter from John A. Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, and several broadsides in Spanish citing Ferdinand de Lesseps and the canal...

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Contains subject files regarding various aspects of the Lincoln assassination. Mostly correspondence, published articles, and newspaper clippings. Consists of materials generated by, received by, and collected by Richard D. Mudd. Arranged alphabetically by subject.

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Collection assembled by Jeremiah J. O'Connor consisting of a wide assortment of materials pertaining to railroads, principally in the United States. Included are train schedules and time tables, printed promotional material, published manufacturer's brochures and catalogues, stock certificates, maps, photographs, and a variety of printed and other types of ephemera.

Gift of Margaret M. O'Connor (sister of J.J. O'Connor).

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Collection assembled by Jeremiah J. O'Connor consisting of a wide assortment of materials pertaining to railroads, principally in the United States. Included are train schedules and time tables, printed promotional material, published manufacturer's brochures and catalogues, stock certificates, maps, photographs, and a variety of printed and other types of ephemera.

Gift of Margaret M. O'Connor (sister of J.J. O'Connor).

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Collection assembled by Jeremiah J. O'Connor consisting of a wide assortment of materials pertaining to railroads, principally in the United States. Included are train schedules and time tables, printed promotional material, published manufacturer's brochures and catalogues, stock certificates, maps, photographs, and a variety of printed and other types of ephemera.

Gift of Margaret M. O'Connor (sister of J.J. O'Connor).

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Correspondence to Georgetown University presidents. Mainly from other colleges and universities concerning event invitations or educational matters. Arranged by name of president to which they were sent. Folders from President O'Leary onward include some copies of responses.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Quigley archive is, properly speaking, the photo “morgue” of Quigley Publications, active under various titles since 1915 in motion picture industry trade publishing (Motion Picture Herald, Motion Picture Daily, and others). Primarily an assemblage of publicity photos, the archive is a unique national resource for photographs of motion picture industry people: producers, directors, animators, and their colleagues. Actors and actresses figure less prominently, but are well represented...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The John Main papers consist of the personal papers of John Main, O.S.B. (1926-1982), a Benedictine monk who was a world-wide proponent of Christian meditation. His collection includes extensive correspondence to him, a small quantity of correspondence from him, his subject files, printed materials, a few audio cassettes by him, a number of photographs, meditation organizations' newsletters, and books by and about Fr. Main. A large portion of the material dates from his time at the...

Series-level Scope and Content Note From the Series:

Series 3 consists of chronological correspondence of John L. Brown from 1932 through 1974. The correspondence is arranged in chronological order. In each folder, both correspondents writing to Brown and correspondents receiving letters from Brown are listed.