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Grant Richards Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-781016
Scope and Contents The Grant Richards Papers consist of correspondence, (Boxes 1 to 3), manuscripts (Box 4 and throughout individual correspondence files), printed materials (Box 5), photos and clippings (Box 5 and 6), all relating to Richards and to the various authors he published. Of note is correspondence between Lady Gregory and himself regarding proposed biographies of Sir Hugh Lane, who died on the "Lusitania." The collection would be of interest in the study of any of the writers represented to the...
Dates: 1889 - 1962

Horace Porter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS249
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Horace Porter Collection consists of 13.0 linear feet of photographs, manuscripts, letters, clippings, prints, and printed ephemera, together with a large assortment of valuable artifacts connected with General Porter's career. Porter, best known for his role as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, was a noted soldier, railroad executive, diplomat, and son of Governor David Rittenhouse Porter (1788-1867) of Pennsylvania. The collection includes a variety of...
Dates: 1855 - 1921

McHarg Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS248
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The McHarg Family Papers (1 box, 0.5 linear feet) contain some fifty substantial Civil War letters, dated 1861 to 1864, including a few penned by Union officer Horace Porter, exchanged among members of the McHarg family, in addition to five remarkable baseball letters, dated 1864, with lengthy discussion and even three detailed box scores concerning an amateur baseball club in Albany, New York. A small number of manuscripts, printed matter, and letters written after the Civil War rounds out...
Dates: 1861 - 1922; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1864

McHarg Family Papers 2

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS266
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The McHarg Family Papers: Part 2 contain a small number of documents related to U.S. Civil War officer Horace Porter, financier and railroad president Henry K. McHarg, and Civil War assistant quartermaster of volunteers John McHarg. Porter married into the McHarg family during the Civil War. The McHarg Family Papers: Part 2 further document the history of the Porter and McHarg families and supplement the McHarg Family Papers: Part 1 already preserved in the Georgetown University Library...
Dates: 1856 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1856 - 1928

Images of U.S. Presidents (Not at Georgetown)

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000177
Scope and Contents Contains images of U.S. Presidents, mostly at inaugurals. Includes: George and Martha Washington, John Adams, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln (includes detail of his signature), first inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, first inauguration of Grover Cleveland in 1885 (2 photographs, one showing streetcar in front of a decorated Willard Hotel), Benjamin Harrison (presumably his inauguration), William McKinley (at inauguration, with James Cardinal Gibbons, and Admiral Dewey, and lying in...
Dates: Washington to Reagan

Horace Porter - Mrs. Osborn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS348
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The Horace Porter - Mrs. Osborn Collection consists of correspondence written by Horace Porter to a Mrs. Osborn between the years 1906 and 1917. In addition to the ten letters, the collection contains the New York Times obituary of Horace Porter.

Dates: 1906 - 1917

Katherine Biddle Papers

 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

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: 1950 - 2014

Center for Applied Linguistics LINCS Project Records

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-780720
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, papers, and publications of the Language Information Network and Clearinghouse System (LINCS) pilot project conducted by the Center for Applied Linguistics. The collection includes extensive information on groups, organizations and schools that have major interests in language and language teaching. Also included is information on the Project's computer programming system.

See the External Documents section below to view an inventory to the collection.

Dates: 1964 - 1971

John L. Cecil Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-19891205
Scope and Contents An assortment of documents collected by John L. Cecil. The collection includes the following:Legal document on vellum, England, 2 September 1628. A conveyance of lands in the country of York from Emanuel, Earl of Sunderland and Baron Bolton, to four yeoman of the said country in return for a sum in excess of 2,500 pounds. With remnant of original seal.10 manuscript antiphonal leaves on vellum, 14 inches by 20 inches each. Possibly of Spanish origin and dating from the...
Dates: 1588 - 1837

Language and Linguistics School (SLL) Publications

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTA-000591
Scope and Contents Contains the following publications:"American Languages Institute Newsletter", 1976-1978. Contains information on student enrollment, student activities, cooperative projects, and faculty activities."Interfaces", 1974-1978. Linguistics and Psychoanalysis Newsletter. Also published as "Some Interfaces"."Languages and Linguistics: A Student Review", 1966-1969. Published by the undergraduate and graduate students of the Institute of Languages and Linguistics....
Dates: Majority of material found in 1966-1989; 2003

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

Matthews Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-730917
Scope and Contents Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, diaries and clippings concerning the Matthews family of Missouri. Early material includes leaves from a diary, describing frontier life in Missouri from 1818-1833, a land grant signed by John Quincy Adams in 1827, and bills of sale from 1855 for two enslaved people. Later material includes correspondence and manuscripts from Florence Calvert Thorne, Director of Research for the American Federation of Labor, and research material of Ralph A. Anderson...
Dates: 1812 - 1976

Goetz A. Briefs papers 3

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS138
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

The Goetz A. Briefs Papers comprise correspondence, manuscripts and printed materials, consisting of 1.5 linear feet of material arranged in 60 folders in 1 box. Extent: 1.5 linear feet Number of boxes: 1 Bulk dates: 1948 - 1971 Span dates: 1948 - 1987

Dates: 1948-1987; Majority of material found within 1948-1971

Heinrich A. Rommen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-740101
Scope and Contents

The Heinrich A. Rommen Papers contain correspondence, manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, and clippings pertaining to Rommen's career both in Germany and in the United States.

Dates: 1923 - 1967

Claire, William F., papers 3

 File
Identifier: GTM-151210
Content Description

Personal papers comprised of letters, articles and printed items relating to John Hardy, Sen. Jacob Javits, John F. Kennedy, Robert Lax and Thomas Merton, John S. Monagan, Raymond Roseliep, and Mark Van Doren.

Dates: 1958-2015; Majority of material found in 1970-2000

Charles Daniel Drake Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS279
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Charles Daniel Drake Papers consist of scrapbooks containing articles about the early portion of Drake's political career and some of his literary writings. The collection is contained in 2 boxes (2.25 linear feet). The first scrapbook focuses on the political climate of the day during the early part of Drake's political career. Much coverage is given to the activities of the Whig party in and around St. Louis, Missouri. Of note are articles about the elections of 1840 and 1848 and...
Dates: 1828 - 1860; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1849

Wallace Erwin Syrian Arabic Dictionary Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-870108
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.

Research materials concerning a Syrian Arabic-English dictionary.

Dates: 1964 - 1975

Goetz A. Briefs papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-820610
Scope and Contents The Goetz A. Briefs Papers comprise four (4) boxes. Box 1, Folders 1 to 7, comprises Briefs' correspondence from 1930 to 1974 and arranged chronologically. Magazine and newsclippings with Briefs' holograph notations and additions make up folders 8, 9, and 10 in Box 1. Georgetown University related materials are found in Box 1, Folder 11. Loose manuscript materials with holograph additions, corrections, and notations, some dated, are to be found in Folders 12 to 16, Box 1. Typewritten,...
Dates: 1930-1974

Future of Music Coalition Records

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-180630
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 contains the records of two formers directors of the Future of Music Coalition.Records of Jean Cook, Future of Music Coalition (FMC) director and researcher, related to the Future of Music Coalition's Artists...
Dates: 2000 - 2015

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