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Edmund P. Cerrute, SJ Papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 37010000467833]
Identifier: GTA-000926
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Office files of Edmund P. Cerrute, S.J., faculty moderator of "The Hoya", for the academic year 1935-1936. Cerrute's primary concern appears to have been the business aspects of "The Hoya," especially managing advertisements for it. The correspondence, arranged by month, reveals a little about the motivations of advertisers and the difficulties of obtaining ads during the Depression. Includes correspondence from various advertising firms like Cluett, Peabody and Company, Inc., Newell-Emmett...
Dates:
1935-1936; Majority of material found within 1935-1936
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Norris Hill Company placing advertisements on behalf of companies such as the Ford Motor Company, Chesterfield Cigarettes, Camel Cigarettes, Liggett and Myers Tobacco Co., W.A.
Clippings, 1972-1979
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000367
Scope and Contents
Xeroxes of articles from papers including The Washington Post, Catholic Standard, and New York Times. All relate to the University and discuss faculty, events, issues, medical developments, and sports. Clippings from 1973 discuss: program to bring German students to study in U.S.; appointment of Jayne Thomas Rich as head of Protective Services; and move of Woodstock Theological Center. Clippings from 1974 discuss: program to bring German students to study in U.S.; dismissal of Edmund G....
Dates:
September 1972-April 1979
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Byrnes as Director of Public Relations; and Homemaker of the Year Award to Betty Ford. Clippings from 1977 discuss: death of Martin Diamond; Unification Church conference on campus; and appointment of Harold S.
Scrapbook: Georgetown University Public Relations, 1955-1956
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000044-DS
Scope and Contents
Includes clippings on: deaths of John O’Brien, Roy J. Glezen, Phillip Stein, Jesse C. Atkins, Dennis R. Bilbrey, Francis B. Hargadon, S.J., John J. Toohey, S.J., James A.V. Buckley, S.J., Judge Harold Stephens, Helen Rock, W. Coleman Nevils, S.J., John J. Kehoe, S.J., and Paul A. McNally, S.J.; dedication of statues of St. Luke and St. Apollonia in the Medical-Dental Building Chapel; award of honorary degrees to Thomas J. Tudor, Clare Booth Luce, and Michael X. Sullivan; speech by Secretary...
Dates:
1955-1956; Majority of material found within 1955 - 1956
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Walsh, S.J.; grants from Ford Foundation; checkup for provisional president of Argentina Eduardo Lonardi at Georgetown University Hospital; artificial heart research; Patrick F.
James Theberge Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-880501
Scope and Contents note
Papers of former U.S. ambassador James Theberge relating largely to Central America and Russia.
Dates:
1962 - 1987
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1975, he was appointed Ambassador to Nicaragua by President Ford, serving two years. President Reagan appointed him Ambassador to Chile in 1982.
Center For Applied Linguistics Negro American Dialect Project Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-821215
Scope and Contents
Records of the Center For Applied Linguistics Negro American Dialect Project, including: teaching materials; interviews with Black children from Washington, DC (open reel recordings and transcripts); and demographic information on the participants in the study.
Dates:
1965 - 1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Funded by the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford Foundation, the Center conducted a detailed study of the language of Black children in Washington, DC.
Graham Greene Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS325
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Graham Greene Papers Part 2 consists mainly of original correspondence and manuscripts. The collection also contains Greene's appointment diaries and two audio recordings. The correspondence includes a series of letters written by prominent authors in response to Greene's proposal of a mass resignation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in response to the war in Vietnam. The letters often contain the authors' views on the war and the opposition to it. Some of the authors...
Dates:
1944-2001; Majority of material found within 1967-1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Hunt was the companion of Ford Madox Ford and for a time regarded herself as his wife when Ford's first wife, Elsie, refused a divorce.
Alvy Powell Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20250730
Scope and Contents
The collection contains photographs, programs, posters and other materials that document the career of opera singer Alvy Powell. The materials primarily document two aspects of Powell's career: his opera performances, especially the role of Porgy in the Porgy and Bess, and his time performing in the U.S. Army Chorus. The collection includes photographs, notes of thanks, and autographs from a number of U.S. Presidents and their families, including the Ford family, the Reagan family, the Bush...
Dates:
1980s-2021
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Presidents and their families, including the Ford family, the Reagan family, the Bush family, and the Obama family.
William K. Wimsatt, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS469
Scope and Contents
William K. Wimsatt, Jr. Papers consists of correspondence, materials related to the Georgetown University Class of 1928-1929, offprints of articles related to literary criticism, materials related to Alexander Pope, and other documents.
Dates:
1928 - 1979
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Wimsatt achieved the distinction of Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of English from 1965, holding the title until 1974, and was named Sterling Professor of English (1974-1975).
John F. Burgess Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS407
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The John F. Burgess Papers document the career of John F. Burgess, an advisor to President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. The collection includes a small amount of correspondence to Burgess by individuals, including President Reagan. In addition, the Burgess Papers contain printed materials concerning the funeral of President Gerald R. Ford, documents regarding the Old Executive Office Building, and items deriving from the Presidential plane "Air Force One." Certificates awarded to Burgess...
Dates:
1973 - 2007
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In addition, the Burgess Papers contain printed materials concerning the funeral of President Gerald R. Ford, documents regarding the Old Executive Office Building, and items deriving from the Presidential plane "Air Force One."
Georgetown University Forum Photographs
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000252
Scope and Contents
Two boxes:Box 1. Contains prints and negatives. Includes photographs of discussion panels. Among those pictured: (Folder 1) Matthew Warren; Leo Dostert; Francis O. Wilcox; John H. McDonough; Pyo Wook Han; James M. Hunter; Charles Schertenleib; John B. Fisher; Eric McDermott, S.J.; Verbon E. Kemp; Mathias Kieman, O.F.M.; Joseph Beirne; Joseph H. Freehill; Julius Brenner; Peter S.H. Tang; Robert H. Estabrook; O. Glenn Stahl; Edmund D. Campbell; William N. Lightsey; Joel T....
Dates:
1952-1972
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Gray; Robert T. Moore; Edwin F. Ford; Richard Clendenen; G.M. White; Robert C. Taber; Richard Sanger; Majid Khadduri; Chlamers Roberts; Raphael Lemkin; George Finch; Lev Dobriansky; (Folder 2) George Allen; Frank Blair; Edmund A.
Patrick J. Cormican, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS13
Scope and Contents
The Patrick J. Cormican, SJ Papers consist of poetry as well as materials related to Jeannie Gourley Struthers, an actor performing in Ford's Theater when President Lincoln was assassinated.
Dates:
1924 - 1925
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Cormican, SJ Papers consist of poetry as well as materials related to Jeannie Gourley Struthers, an actor performing in Ford's Theater when President Lincoln was assassinated.
William H. Natcher Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS224
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This portion of the William H. Natcher Papers consists of 4.5 linear feet of materials, including correspondence, invitations, typed documents, and printed items accumulated during the professional career of William H. Natcher (1909-1994), a long-standing Democratic Congressman from the state of Kentucky. The bulk of its documents date to the years between 1972 and 1985, representing a slice of Congressional life in the 1970s and 1980s. Correspondence files comprise a large part of this...
Dates:
1949 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1972 - 1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Burger, Jimmy Carter, Sargent Shriver, George Wallace, Wendell H. Ford, Jackson Graham, Max L. Friedersdorf, Robert C.
Archives of the Carlucci Commission on Security and Economic Assistance
Collection
Identifier: GTM-840102
Scope and Contents
Archives of the Carlucci Commission on Security and Economic Assisstance, consisting of member correspondence files, papers generated or solicited by the Commission, minutes from Commission meetings and public hearings, and drafts of the final report. The Commission, chaired by Deputy Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, was called into existence by Secretary of State George P. Schultz in February, 1983. The Commission's findings on U.S. foreign assistance programs, both security and...
Dates:
1983-1984
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He subsequently held political positions under presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan.
In Ronald Ragan's first term, he made Carlucci deputy secretary of defense.
In Ronald Ragan's first term, he made Carlucci deputy secretary of defense.
Byington Family Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS298
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Byington Family Papers: Part 2 contain postcards, letters, and printed material documenting the life and times of A. Homer Byington and other members of the Byington family. Of interest are postcards to and from A. Homer Byington from Naples, where he served as U.S. consul at the turn of the twentieth century. The postcards describe life in Naples, volcanic activity there, and even an occasion when the King off Italy took of his hat out of respect for an American flag flying over...
Dates:
1822 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1910
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Blaine, an original pen-and-ink drawing of the exterior front, the exterior rear, and the stage of Ford's Theater and a carefully annotated drawing of the escape route taken by John Wilkes Booth immediately following the shooting of President Abraham Lincoln, engravings of Ulysses S.
Charles F. King, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS43
Scope and Contents
The Charles F. King, SJ Papers contain course notes, a journal, and poetry written while at Georgetown University.
Dates:
1837 - 1854
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
King, SJ (1818-1870) was born in Washington, DC, to George W. and Susanna Maria Ford King. He was educated at Georgetown University beginning in 1828 and entered the Society of Jesus at Frederick in 1834.
William K. Wimsatt, Jr. Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS442
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The William K. Wimsatt Papers 2 contain the correspondence, notes, and collected printed materials of William K. Wimsatt, a scholar, literary theorist, and Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. The bulk of the collection consists of offprints given to Wimsatt on a variety of topics, and provide a secondary source base for students of Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His correspondence and collected printed materials also provide insight...
Dates:
1767 - 1975; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1975
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946 and 1947, and a fellowship from the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education in 1953 and 1954.
National Hotel Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-840319
Scope and Contents
The National Hotel Collection consists of five large register books listing the guests at the National Hotel in Washington, D.C. from 1851 to 1854. The hotel was the first hotel in the nation's capital approximating the size of a modern hotel. It was located at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 6th Street.The registers are in chronological order. The register entries list the names of the guests, the days they stayed, and their room numbers. The signature of each guest is...
Dates:
1851 - 1854
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
John Wilkes Booth stayed in the hotel in room 228 prior to his assassination of President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
A fire damaged the hotel in 1921.
A fire damaged the hotel in 1921.
Hildred Roach Collection on Pan African Composers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-20230714
Scope and Contents
The collection contains materials related to Pan African composers and musicians that was collected by Hildred Roach. It includes music scores from a variety of Black composers, Hildred Roach concert programs, and music recordings (phonograph records, compact discs, and open reel). The collection includes William Grant Still, Ulysses Kay, George Walker, and many others.
Please see the External Documents section below for preliminary inventories of the collection.
Dates:
1900 - 2023
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The founder of Group 3 (which played works of Pan African composers in the 1960s-80s), a member of Alpha Kappa, and Phi Beta Kappa, she earned scholarships from Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, John Hay Whitney, the Ford Foundation, Yale and Fisk, etc.; she is listed in Eileen Southern’s Dictionary of African and Afro-American Musicians, Who’s Who of American Women and Outstanding Educators of the South.
William E. and Barbara Colby Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-960101
Scope and Contents note
The William E. and Barbara Colby Papers comprise the personal papers of William E. Colby, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 1976. A series of letters to Colby dating to the 1980s and 1990s touches on his opinion about various books concerning the history of intelligence in America. Also included are reproduced reports deriving from his service as head of the C.I.A. A fair amount of printed materials are also present. The bulk of the collection is composed of...
Dates:
1940s-1994; Majority of material found within 1973 - 1991
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Colby often testified before Congress to defend the CIA's policies. President Gerald Ford forced Colby to retire from the CIA in 1976.
Richard M. Helms Papers 3
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS424
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Richard M. Helms Papers: Part 3 document the career of Richard M. Helms, who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1966 to 1973 and the U.S. Ambassador to Iran from 1973 to 1976. The collection includes carbons of some of Helms' outgoing correspondence, mostly dated to 1976, with various individuals, such as George H.W. Bush. Helms' personal papers (Part 3) contain letters from notable people, such as Assadollah Alam, Arthur Ashe, Michael Beschloss, George H.W. Bush,...
Dates:
1930 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1989
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Bush, William J. Clinton, Gerald Ford, Hubert H. Humphrey, Lady Bird Johnson, Lyndon B.