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Power, Daniel E., SJ, Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-200205
Scope and Contents
The Daniel E. Power, SJ Papers predominantly hold material created and collected while Power was vice president of and involved with GWETA (the Greater Washington Educational Television Association), the parent organization of WETA-TV channel 26. The papers also include items that reflect his personal and spiritual life.
Dates:
1922 - 1976
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Creators:
Power, Daniel E., 1904-1976
Found in Notes:
Daniel E. Power, SJ (1904-1976) was born in New York City to James Martin (1864-1933) and Katherine Couch Power (1870-1939), one of seven children.
Found in Finding Aid Title:
Daniel E. Power, SJ Papers
Found in Finding Aid Filing Title:
Power, Daniel E., SJ, Papers
Scrapbook: AFROTC DET 125, 1953-1954
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000088-DS
Scope and Contents
Contains photographs and clippings. Among those featured: Marilyn Brickley; the Arnold Air Society; the Rifle Team; Cadet Colonel John E. Quinn; Colonel Ansel J. Wheeler; Master Sergeant Leo Kolarsky; and General Earle E. Patridge. Also included is material relating to Georgetown's observance of the 50th anniversary of powered flight.
Dates:
1953-1954
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Also included is material relating to Georgetown's observance of the 50th anniversary of powered flight.
Allied Commission for Austria Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-110411
Scope and Contents Note
The Allied Commission for Austria collection consists of typed reports: proceedings of the Allied Council, proceedings of the Executive Committee, and materials from the Intergovernmental Committee on European Migration. The archive is preserved in 22 boxes (32 l.f.).
Dates:
1945 - 1960
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
On July 4, 1945, the Allied powers of the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union established four-power occupation zones in Austria as a whole and in the city of Vienna as well.
Edmund A. Walsh, S.J.: Speeches/Writings
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000528
Scope and Contents
Character: The True End of University Education. Baccalaureate Sermon to the Class of 1924. Delivered in Dahlgren Chapel, June 8, 1924.Soviet Russia and the United States: A Study in Comparative Government by Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Ph.D., Regent, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Reprinted from the Georgetown College Journal, June 1925.Why Pope Pius XI Asked Prayers for Russia on March 19, 1930: A Review of the Facts in the Case Together with Proofs...
Dates:
1924-1952
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
"...The works included here have been selected because of their practical value for those who, though not requiring an expert's knowledge, must still have reliable, accurate, and current information..."
Total Power: A Footnote to History. The story of total power, its growth, and the problems it creates for the modern world.
Total Power: A Footnote to History. The story of total power, its growth, and the problems it creates for the modern world.
Grenada Documents Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-880701
Scope and Contents note
The Grenada Documents Collection contains copies of some of the documents which were captured on Grenada by the United States Defense Department when the U. S., at the urging of many of the smaller Caribbean nations, joined a rescue mission to end the rule of the Revolutionary Military Council which had taken control of the country when Maurice Bishop, formerly head of the PRG (People's Revolutionary Government), was assassinated along with many of the people at Fort Rupert in October, 1983,...
Dates:
1979 - 1988
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
., at the urging of many of the smaller Caribbean nations, joined a rescue mission to end the rule of the Revolutionary Military Council which had taken control of the country when Maurice Bishop, formerly head of the PRG (People's Revolutionary Government), was assassinated along with many of the people at Fort Rupert in October, 1983, as a result of internal factions and power plays in the NJM (New JEWEL Movement) and PRG.
Graham Greene Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-851001
Scope and Contents
The Graham Greene Papers include Greene's diaries and journals from his trips to Vietnam, Cuba, Panama, South Africa, Poland, Kuala Lampur, Kenya, and Haiti. Also present are manuscripts by Greene for "Monsignor Quixote" and "Getting to Know the General." There is some correspondence with Evelyn Waugh. Ephemera and clippings round out the collection.
Dates:
1923 - 1982
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
." - Evelyn Waugh to Graham Greene on The Power and the Glory, March 27 1950
"...I am awfully pleased at your fidelity to an old friend in sending me Our Man in Havana...yesterday that beast Ian Fleming was boasting he had read it (and to do him justice was full of humble admiration for it)...You know how I delight in your work, light or serious..."
"...I am awfully pleased at your fidelity to an old friend in sending me Our Man in Havana...yesterday that beast Ian Fleming was boasting he had read it (and to do him justice was full of humble admiration for it)...You know how I delight in your work, light or serious..."
Biographies and Autobiographies (Georgetown-Related)
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000556
Scope and Contents
Box 1Edward B. Bunn, S.J. [typsecripts].William Gaston, Carolinian by Joseph Herman Schaulinger (G'39). Bruce Publishing Company: Milwaukee, 1949.Recollections and Reflections: An Autobiography of Half a Century and More by Wharton J. Green. Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, 1906.Passing for White: Race, Religion and the Healy Family, 1820-1920 by James M. O'Toole. University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.Bishop Healy:...
Dates:
1899-2002
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Top Performance: Daniel E. Power, Jesuit by Joseph T. Durkin, S.J. Jesuit Community of Georgetown University, 1986.
Lawrence H. Suid Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-770325
Scope and Contents
The collection documents cooperation between U.S. military officials and the film industry in the 20th century. It consists of oral history interviews (recordings and transcripts) conducted by Lawrence Suid with screenwriters, producers, directors, actors, military technical advisors, public relations officers, and others, as well as subject files on films that were studied by Suid in the preparation of his groundbreaking study "Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image",...
Dates:
1900 - 2010
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
It includes photographs arranged alphabetically by film title, and manuscripts of "Guts and Glory", "Sailing on the Silver Screen”, and "The Army's Nuclear Power Program".
Causten Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS201
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection contains the letters written by members of the Causten family over the period 1805-1820.
Dates:
1805 - 1820
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Preble's Boys: Commodore Preble and the Birth of American Sea Power (New York: William Sloane Associates, 1950).
World War I French Propaganda Scrapbook
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030726825]
Identifier: GTM-20230508
Content Description
Scrapbook assembled by a French army officer primarily containing World War I propaganda materials issued between 1914 and 1917. All of the contents of the scrapbook are in French. It includes sheet music, small posters for war art exhibitions, notices for theatrical events concerning the war, advertisements, short stories and serial novelettes, cards related to bond drives, newspaper clippings and notices, patriotic lapel "pins," postcards, original drawings of a war lottery...
Dates:
1914 - 1917
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The Arthur Michaelis Holocaust Collection (GTM-180619) contains propaganda flyers from both Allied and Axis powers.
Jan Karski Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-000011
Collection-level scope and contents note
The Jan Karski Collection comprises three distinct groups of documents: Karski's collection of serials and pamphlets produced by various organizations of the Polish underground during World War II; records and addresses pertaining to Karski's travel and work in 1966-67, including miscellaneous articles translated and transcribed; and two distinct states of Karski's draft for his book "Great Powers and Poland, 1919-1945".
Dates:
1939 - 1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The Jan Karski Collection comprises three distinct groups of documents: Karski's collection of serials and pamphlets produced by various organizations of the Polish underground during World War II; records and addresses pertaining to Karski's travel and work in 1966-67, including miscellaneous articles translated and transcribed; and two distinct states of Karski's draft for his book "Great Powers and Poland, 1919-1945".
Egyptian Revolution and Suez Crisis Ephemera
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 48: [Barcode: 39020031369807], Folder: 4
Identifier: GTM-0089
Scope and Contents
The collection contains an invitation to celebrate the one year anniversary of the Egyptian revolution (1953) and a document related to the Suez Crisis ("Lajnat at-Muqawamah al-Sha’biyah").
Dates:
1950s
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The program commemorating a military parade to mark the anniversary of the 1952 Free Officers' Egyptian revolution is significant in that the honored guest was then-Syrian president Adib al-Shishakli and that the parade took place in the unique period after the Free Officers had risen to power but before the Egyptian Monarchy was officially dissolved.
Robert M. Weston Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-770610
Scope and Contents
The Robert M. Weston papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, legal briefs, documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings concerning the legal career of Robert M. Weston (1910-1973). Weston was associated with the Tax and Antitrust Divisions of the Department of Justice from 1941 to 1952, president of the Public Utilities Commission from 1953 to 1956, a member of the Federal Power Commission from 1956 to 1968, Judge of the D.C. Tax Court from 1968 to 1971, and Associate Judge...
Dates:
1933 - 1973
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1956 Weston was appointed to the Federal Power Commission serving on the General Counsel's staff.
Henry Bartholomew Cox Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS410
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Comprising five boxes, 3.25 linear feet of material, the Henry Bartholomew Cox Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed material related to the career of Henry Bartholomew Cox (1937-2007). An expert document and manuscript collector, as well as a lawyer and historian, Cox was a key participant in efforts among historians and archivists to protect rare, historic papers and manuscripts while respecting the rights of, and markets for, private manuscript collectors. Much of his...
Dates:
1938 - 2007; Majority of material found within 1975 - 2000
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1976, the year he received his law degree, Cox authored his first book, "War, Foreign Affairs and Constitutional Power, 1829-1901," which was written for the American Bar Association.
Future of Music Coalition Records
Collection
Identifier: GTM-180630
Scope and Contents
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 Revenue Streams Project, international project work, radio consolidation research, and other FMC initiatives. Includes research data, reports, background research files, grant material, training and workshop files, interviews, case study data, and other...
Dates:
2000 - 2015
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Guided by a firm conviction that public policy has real impact on the lives of both musicians and fans, FMC advocates for a balanced approach to music in the digital age — one that reflects the interests of all stakeholders, and not just the powerful few. By documenting historic and emerging trends in the music industry, FMChas become a trusted voice in the ongoing dialog about the challenges and opportunities facing today’s musicians.
Susan and Joseph Trento Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-190916
Scope and Contents
The collection contains notes, documents, videos, audio recordings, digitized interviews, photographs of the research and reporting of Susan and Joseph Trento for the following books: The Power House (1992), Widows (1989), The Secret History of the CIA (2001), Prelude to Terror (2005), Unsafe at Any Altitude (2006), and America and the Islamic Bomb (2007).It includes notes, draft proposals, movie treatments, screenplays, and underlying story materials from the unpublished project...
Dates:
1989 - 2017
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The collection contains notes, documents, videos, audio recordings, digitized interviews, photographs of the research and reporting of Susan and Joseph Trento for the following books: The Power House (1992), Widows (1989), The Secret History of the CIA (2001), Prelude to Terror (2005), Unsafe at Any Altitude (2006), and America and the Islamic Bomb (2007).
Phillip Harman Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-080814
Scope and Contents Note
The Phillip Harman Papers comprise the extensive personal papers of Phillip Harman, who worked for U.S. non-profit organizations opposed to the Panama Canal Treaties in the 1970s which transferred control of the Panama Canal and the Canal Zone from the United States to the nation of Panama, effective in the year 2000.Over the years, Harman amassed large amounts of materials documenting his efforts to oppose the Panama Canal Treaties. Information about U.S. Congressional bills,...
Dates:
1960 - 1985
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He hoped to restore former president of Panama Arnulfo Arias, who had been deposed from power.
Sources:
- "Conservative Lobby Bids U.S.
Sources:
- "Conservative Lobby Bids U.S.
Harry Sylvester Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS220
Scope and Contents
The major portions of the Harry Sylvester Papers consist of correspondence and manuscripts for his published novel, “Moon Gaffney”; and an unpublished work, “A Watch in the Night.” Notable correspondents include writers, publishers, scholars, political and religious leaders, such as Harry L. Binsse, Paul Beecher Blanshard, Harvey Breit, Dorothy Day, William A.S. Dollard, Waldo Frank, John Farrar, Brendan Gill, Matthew Hoehn, Nathan I. Hentoff, Stanley J. Kunitz, Eugene J. and...
Dates:
1930 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Kunitz, Eugene J. and Abigail McCarthy, Haniel Long, J.F. Powers, Thomas Sugrue, Mark and Irita Van Doren, Stanley Vestal (a.k.a.
Hartley Rowe Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-160701
Scope and Contents
The Hartley Rowe papers document the life and works of Hartley Rowe, an American electrical engineer who worked for the Isthmian Canal Commission and the Panama Railroad Company in the early 20th century. The collection is organized into three series as detailed below.Series 1: Correspondence. More than 200 autograph letters from Hartley Rowe to his future wife Inez Oswald. The first set of letters was written by Rowe from Purdue University. Subsequently, in a large number of...
Dates:
1904 - 1929
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1905, he transferred to become an engineer on the Panama Railroad. Rowe managed a power plant in the La Boca neighborhood of Panama City.
F. Mark Wyatt Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-110804
Scope and Contents note
The F. Mark Wyatt Papers document the life and career of F. Mark Wyatt, a noted official in the Central Intelligence Agency and an expert on the subject of Soviet bloc defectors. Correspondents exchanging letters with Wyatt include Elizabeth Bancroft, Lee Hamilton, Max Holland, Sam Nunn, and Thomas Powers, among others. A number of manuscripts and printed materials is also found among the papers. There is a lengthy run of newspaper articles about intelligence issues gathered by Wyatt. ...
Dates:
1950 - 2005
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Correspondents exchanging letters with Wyatt include Elizabeth Bancroft, Lee Hamilton, Max Holland, Sam Nunn, and Thomas Powers, among others. A number of manuscripts and printed materials is also found among the papers.