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American Espionage in Siberia Photograph Album
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030737889]
Identifier: GTM-170309
Scope and Contents
The American Espionage in Siberia Photograph Album documents the secret efforts of the Americans to obtain platinum from Siberia in 1918. The Bolsheviks had cut off American access to platinum, an important metal used to build airplane engines. The U.S. Commerce Department subsequently dispatched Charles Leroy Preston, an American fur trader in Riga, to Siberia as an officer of the Red Cross to provide humanitarian supplies to the Czech Legion on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Working secretly...
Dates:
Creation: 1918
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The collection features pictures of Charles Leroy Preston, Czech and Siberian soldiers, people of Mongolia, refugees, missionaries, bridges and stations on the Trans-Siberian Railway, Bolshevik prisoners, landscapes, and buildings.
Charles Pergler Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-000004
Scope and Contents note
The Charles Pergler Papers comprise 1.5 linear feet of material consisting of correspondence, legal documents, clippings, ephemera, diaries and other materials arranged in 39 folders in 1 box.
Dates:
1896 - 1950
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1903 Pergler decided to return to the United States for a while in order to study law and to get involved in the Socialist and Czech nationalist movements there.
In Chicago Pergler began working at Spravedlnost, a local Czech language newspaper, and in 1905 began courses at Kent College of Law.
In Chicago Pergler began working at Spravedlnost, a local Czech language newspaper, and in 1905 began courses at Kent College of Law.
Sylvia V.C. Twine Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20250908
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the career of mezzo-soprano Sylvia V.C. Twine. It includes concert programs, advertisements, and newspaper clippings (1989-2016); curricula vitae; portrait photographs; two compact discs of Twine recordings; and Twine's Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan School of Music (2001).
Dates:
1989 - 2016
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Tre Mezzi has performed throughout the Washington, DC Metropolitan area in venues such as the Reginald Lewis Museum, and the Czech Embassy.
Ms. Twine received her Master of Music from the University of Michigan and studied with the noted tenor George Shirley.
Ms. Twine received her Master of Music from the University of Michigan and studied with the noted tenor George Shirley.
Desmond Egan Papers 3
Collection
Identifier: GTM-890927
Content Description
Box 1 Correspondence (1987-1989) includes letters from Egan to family and letters from notables such as Samuel Beckett (photocopies), Hugh Kenner (Beckett and Ezra Pound scholar), James Laughlin (poet, founder of New Directions Publishing), James McKenna (playwright, sculptor), Patricia Rachewiltz (granddaughter of Ezra Pound), John Patrick Sullivan (author).
Box 2 Manuscripts by Egan (c.1988-1989)
Box 3 Published works by Egan (1987-1989)
Box 4 Printed materials (articles) re Egan...
Dates:
1987 - 1989
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
His own work has been translated into Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Russian.
Jack Womack Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-141106.2
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the career of author Jack Womack and contains correspondence, manuscripts, articles, and ephemera. It also includes correspondence and manuscripts by science fiction author William Gibson.
Dates:
1992 - 2002
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
His books have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese, Czech, Polish, Greek, and Norwegian.
Womack’s short stories have appeared in anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow, Ellen Kusher and Delia Sherman, and others.
Womack’s short stories have appeared in anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow, Ellen Kusher and Delia Sherman, and others.
Desmond Egan Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS81
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection is the second accession of the papers of the notable Irish poet, Desmond Egan (1936 - ). A portion consists of correspondence from international scholars, writers, several Irish ministers and various foreign ambassadors to Ireland. Among the well-known writers are Samuel Beckett, Robert Creeley, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Ian Jack, Desmond Guiness, James Laughlin, Peter Kavanagh (brother of poet Patrick Kavanagh), Peter Luke, Sean MacBride and James McKenna. ...
Dates:
1979 - 1990
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
His own work has been translated into Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish and Russian.
John C. Hirsh Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-130529
Scope and Contents
Various 19th century British letters, scrapbooks and photograph albums, collected by Prof. John Hirsh.
Dates:
1816-1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Manuscripts - Czech
File — Box 1, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The Charles Pergler Papers comprise 1.5 linear feet of material consisting of correspondence, legal documents, clippings, ephemera, diaries and other materials arranged in 39 folders in 1 box.
Dates:
19 Sep 1919 - 7 Mar 1933
Clippings - Czech
File — Box 1, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The Charles Pergler Papers comprise 1.5 linear feet of material consisting of correspondence, legal documents, clippings, ephemera, diaries and other materials arranged in 39 folders in 1 box.
Dates:
5 Oct 1915 - 3 May 1936
Found in Notes:
Newsclippings in Czech mostly regarding Czechoslovakian affairs.
Czech Inmates
File — Box 3, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
Archive of 90 original drawings of Czech inmates of the Flossenburg concentration camp. Documents formerly owned by Miloslav Snyrych, an inmate himself. Also, contains various realia, such as identity cards, ration tickets, photographs, and a postwar attestation that he was indeed an inhabitant of Belkovic, Czechoslovakia. Accession: 160429.
Dates:
1945 April
Found in Notes:
Archive of 90 original drawings of Czech inmates of the Flossenburg concentration camp.
#1141 Czech 'Blueprint' for Freedom.
Digital Record
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1084421
Trip to Prague, Czech Republic
File — Box 4: [Barcode: 39020031368114], Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers of Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff for First Lady, Hillary Clinton and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues in the Obama Administration, including schedules, briefing books, speeches, memorabilia, and trip materials, as well as files on the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing) and memoranda on health care reform. A large portion of the collection includes travel books from 1993-2000 detailing the First Lady’s official travels across the world. This...
Dates:
July 3-6, 1996
Siberia Talks re Czech Prisoners, 1919 - 1921
File — Box 1, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents note
From the Collection:
The Charles Pergler Papers comprise 1.5 linear feet of material consisting of correspondence, legal documents, clippings, ephemera, diaries and other materials arranged in 39 folders in 1 box.
Dates:
6 Feb 1919 - 6 Apr 1921
Found in Notes:
16 items, mostly in Czech, mainly consisting of typed copies of telegrams between Czech. government representatives (such as Charles Pergler in Tokyo) and Soviet Siberian officials regarding the release of Czech. prisoners being held in Chita and Vladivostok.
Correspondence in reference to the Czech-American Corporation
File — Box 14, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Richard T. Crane Papers are divided into three series: the State Department Series (1915-1919), the Prague Series (1919-1922), and the Virginia Series (1922-1951), corresponding, respectively, to Richard Crane's years as private secretary to Secretary of State Robert Lansing; as the American ambassador to Czechoslovakia; and finally, as the owner of Westover Plantation in Virginia. There is also a quantity of photographs and other materials, filed separately.An addendum of...
Dates:
1922
Trip to Estonia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary: Slides
File — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020031368080], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers of Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff for First Lady, Hillary Clinton and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues in the Obama Administration, including schedules, briefing books, speeches, memorabilia, and trip materials, as well as files on the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing) and memoranda on health care reform. A large portion of the collection includes travel books from 1993-2000 detailing the First Lady’s official travels across the world. This...
Dates:
1990s
Trip to Sofia, Bulgaria and Prague, Czech Republic: Sofia
File — Box 7: [Barcode: 39020031368221], Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers of Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff for First Lady, Hillary Clinton and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues in the Obama Administration, including schedules, briefing books, speeches, memorabilia, and trip materials, as well as files on the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing) and memoranda on health care reform. A large portion of the collection includes travel books from 1993-2000 detailing the First Lady’s official travels across the world. This...
Dates:
October 10 - 13, 1998
Trip to Sofia, Bulgaria and Prague, Czech Republic: Prague
File — Box 7: [Barcode: 39020031368221], Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Papers of Melanne Verveer, Chief of Staff for First Lady, Hillary Clinton and U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues in the Obama Administration, including schedules, briefing books, speeches, memorabilia, and trip materials, as well as files on the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing) and memoranda on health care reform. A large portion of the collection includes travel books from 1993-2000 detailing the First Lady’s official travels across the world. This...
Dates:
October 10 - 13, 1998
Interview with Charles Crane from the Narodini Listy (Czech newspaper)
File — Box 7, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Richard T. Crane Papers are divided into three series: the State Department Series (1915-1919), the Prague Series (1919-1922), and the Virginia Series (1922-1951), corresponding, respectively, to Richard Crane's years as private secretary to Secretary of State Robert Lansing; as the American ambassador to Czechoslovakia; and finally, as the owner of Westover Plantation in Virginia. There is also a quantity of photographs and other materials, filed separately.An addendum of...
Dates:
1919