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Foreign Service School: Qatar

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-110723
Scope and Contents

Contains SFS-Q tote bag and two water botles. Also map of Doha.

Dates: ca. 2005.
Found in Notes:  Contains SFS-Q tote bag and two water botles. Also map of Doha.

Georgiana G. Stevens Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-990112
Scope and Contents

Articles and reports written and collected by Georgiana G. Stevens, relating to mid- and late-twentieth-century water supply crisis in Middle Eastern countries, particularly Jordan.

Dates: 1964 - 1991
Found in Subjects:  Water supply
Found in Notes:  Stevens, relating to mid- and late-twentieth-century water supply crisis in Middle Eastern countries, particularly Jordan.

Library: Lauinger Architectural Drawings

 Item — Map-case 2, Drawer: 3
Identifier: GTA-191111
Dates: 1967-06-01

Old Archives: Medical School

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000293
Dates: 1851-1971

Jack the Bulldog Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTA-190603
Content Description Contains clothing items, leashes, a collar, a harness, and shoes worn by Jack the Bulldog. Also includes a brief history about the re-establishment of the live mascot program in 2003 written by Fr. Christopher Steck, S.J., photographs, news clippings about Jack and Fr. Steck, a get well cards from students at Hoya Kids for Jack following his surgery, a water bottle used by Jack, a bobble head of Jack driving an SUV, various t-shirts including a "Three Jack Moon" t-shirt and "Jack Crew"...
Dates: 2003-2015
Found in Notes:  Steck, a get well cards from students at Hoya Kids for Jack following his surgery, a water bottle used by Jack, a bobble head of Jack driving an SUV, various t-shirts including a "Three Jack Moon" t-shirt and "Jack Crew" t-shirts, GoCards for Jack, signed images sent from Blue II, Butler University's mascot, and Reveille VIII, Texas A&M's mascot, Jack's Kennel Club paperwork and material related to his death in 2015.

Kober Cogan Time Capsule

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTA-20211006
Content Description One metal box containing 4 printed items: one copy of the Board of Directors meeting minutes from August 7, 1958 authorizing construction on the future Kober Cogan building, a copy of the 1958-1959 Register of Faculty, Staff, and Students of Georgetown University, a copy of the program from the dedication ceremony of the Gorman and Kober Cogan buildings on March 19, 1959, and a six page typed document detailing the occupancy and use of the Gorman and Kober Cogan buildings just after they...
Dates: 1958 - 1959

James H. Critchfield Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-101108
Scope and Contents Note The James H. Critchfield Papers contain a wide array of documents concerning the work of James H. Critchfield (1917-2003) in the Middle Eastern nation of Oman. The collection includes correspondence to and from Critchfield dated 1974 to 1991. It also contains technical reports and files from Critchfield's consulting firm Tetra Tech International regarding its work developing the oil, natural gas, water, and mineral industries in Oman. The reports trace the relationship between Tetra Tech...
Dates: 1960 - 2002; Majority of material found within 1974 - 1991
Found in Subjects:  Oman - Water Industry
Found in Notes:  In 1975, Critchfield became president of Tetra Tech International, a consulting firm assisting the government of Oman in the development of its oil, natural gas, water, and mineral resources. Tetra Tech was a subsidiary of Honeywell, Inc.

Greenpeace Latin America Records

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-110311
Scope and Contents Note

The Greenpeace Latin America Records consist of materials relating to the efforts of Greenpeace to promote environmentalism in Central and South America. Reports, United Nations Conference on Environment and Development documents, printed materials, memos, meeting minutes, and other items are contained in the collection. The collection is preserved in 15 boxes (21.5 linear feet).

Dates: 1986 - 1995
Found in Notes:  Its works include protecting indangered species, promoting clean water, advocating for the reduction of pollution, and campaigning for the end of nuclear weapons testing.

Human Embryo Research Panel Records

 Collection
Identifier: BRL-012
Abstract

The collection consists of the proceedings of meetings held by the National Institute of Health's Human Embryo Research Panel, dating from February 1994 to June 1994. The Human Embryo Research Panel was established to provide the Director of the National Institutes of Health (Harold Varmus) with recommendations regarding human embryo research and guidelines for federal funding of such research.

Dates: 1994

Thomas Blake Papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030756285]
Identifier: GTM-0026
Scope and Contents Papers of Thomas Dawes Blake, a public relations specialist who served in the U.S. State Department in the 1940s. It includes typescripts documenting his time working for the U.S. government during World War II, including his role as assistant to Stephen Early, press secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the reaction to the death of FDR by White House staff. It also includes a file on the Mexico Water Treaty (1945), a file of memoranda to Col. Behn from 1947 (while Blake was employed as...
Dates: 1947 - 1976
Found in Notes:  It also includes a file on the Mexico Water Treaty (1945), a file of memoranda to Col.

Bark-book (pustaha) in Batak Language

 Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 39: [Barcode: 39020030727997]
Identifier: GTM-0066
Scope and Contents

Magical/medical knowledge compiled by a member of a class of magician-priests called datu, written in the Batak language of Sumatra.

Dates: 1750 - 1850
Found in Notes:  It is first soaked in rice water and folded into an accordion book, with wooden boards glued to the top and bottom of the strip.

Hilaire Belloc - Allison Family collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS203
Collection-level Scope and Content Note

This collection contains the correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and the James Murray Allison family for the time period 1918-1941. Much of the correspondence in this collection has to do with the column Belloc contributed to "Land and Water," a periodical founded by James Murray Allison to cover aspects of the war efforts during WWI.

Dates: 1918-1941
Found in Notes:  It was at this time that began writing for James Murray Allison's publication "Land and Water." "Land and Water" reported on the war effort exclusively and, at its peak, had a circulation of 100,000 subscribers.

La Pucelle d'Orleans Manuscript

 Collection — Volume 1: [Barcode: 39020031848685]
Identifier: GTM-20140421
Scope and Contents A manuscript copy of the 1762 "authorized" edition of Voltaire's La Pucelle d'Orleans including 47 interleavings on which the copyist has supplied ommitted passages considered too risque to print. The result is something like an early critical edition of the text. A date in the final quarter of the 18th century seems likely, at earliest post-1762.The text is written in a single neat cursive hand throughout, with additions marked by...
Dates: 18th century, after 1762
Found in Notes:  A portion has been cut from the foot of the title page (repaired) and there is some water damage to the final chapters, though it does not compromise legibility.

Cuba - USS Maine Photograph Album

 Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 5 (Letter): [Barcode: 39020030726437], Folder: 11-12
Identifier: GTM-20230622
Scope and Contents Photograph album containing unattributed snapshot photographs taken in Havana Bay, the city of Havana, and the surrounding area around 1898.The album consists of original snapshot photographs, the earliest batch taken from the prow of an unidentified ship, occasionally showing lone members of the crew at work, but chiefly focused on views from the vessel, of passing ships and the approaching skyline of Havana. Five images depict the approaching remains of the USS Maine peering...
Dates: circa 1898
Found in Notes:  Five images depict the approaching remains of the USS Maine peering out from the water at the approaching photographer, the final shot taken nearly atop of the wreckage.

Thomas Bierschenk Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-170525
Scope and Contents

Printed materials and typed reports regarding the history, economy, and society of Oman collected by Thomas Bierschenk over the course of his research on Oman.

Dates: 1946 - 1979; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1979
Found in Notes:  Critchfield Papers, which document the consulting firm Tetra Tech's work in developing the oil, water, and mineral resources in Oman. Booth also preserves many collections related to Saudi Arabia, the neighbor of Oman.

Madeline Riva Baxter World War I Scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020031855888]
Identifier: GTM-20250425
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook compiled by a French woman named Madeline Riva Baxter while working as a volunteer at the ‘Cantines Des Dames Anglaises’ in Vitry-le-François for the British Committee of the French Red Cross during World War I. Includes personal documents, travel certificates, numerous photographs of nursing staff and soldiers, pencil sketches, watercolor paintings, signatures, postcards, manuscript notes, and loosely inserted newspaper clippings, and other items.

Dates: 1918 - 1919

Hoyt Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS343
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Hoyt Family Papers are comprised of the extensive correspondence of artist Margaret Howard Yeaton Hoyt (1885-1943) and her family. The highlight of the collection is a group of more than 170 letters to Margaret from fellow artist Gabrielle De Veaux Clements. Moreover, several letters sent from artists Theresa Bernstein Meyerowitz and William Meyerowitz are retained. This collection provides ample documentation on the circle of artists who were active in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Other...
Dates: 1895 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1950
Found in Notes:  Margaret Hoyt was a member of the Southern States Art League, Ogunquit (Maine) Art Club, and Washington Water Color Club. [Source: "Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born before 1900."

Thomas Merton - John Pauker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-890101
Scope and Contents note

The Merton-Pauker Collection consists mainly of correspondence between Merton and Pauker and between Pauker and those interested in buying Merton's prints. There are seven personal letters from Merton and three mimeographed letters which Merton sent out to friends at Lent, Easter, and Christmas, 1967. Many of the letters also discuss Pauker's work as a poet, especially "Excellency," a sequence of poems, published in 1967.

Dates: 1966 - 1972
Found in Notes:  From that time on he produced a steady stream of works on religion, philosophy, and poetry, includes "The Waters of Siloe" (1949), "Seeds of Contemplation" (1949), "The Sign of Jonas" (1952), "No Man is an Island" (1955), and "Mystics and Zen Masters" (1967).

Emma and Hugh McCormick Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-0108
Scope and Contents

Diaries and journals kept by Hugh McCormick Smith (1865-1941) and his wife, Emma, documenting their years in Siam (Thailand). Hugh's diaries date from July 1923 to October 1934, and Emma's date from July 1924 to June 1927. The diaries not only contain accounts of Smith's work in Sam (as an advisor on fisheries), but also provide descriptions of local life, culture, and topography. The collection also includes a letter from Hugh to Nannie Hancock (1934).

Dates: 1923 - 1934
Found in Notes:  Among his numerous publications, The Fresh Water Fishes of Siam, or Thailand (1945), a classic work in ichthyology, was the result of his decade-long study of native fishes in Thailand, where he lived from 1923 to 1935.

Ames W. Williams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS401
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Ames W. Williams Papers comprise the personal papers of Ames W. Williams, best known as a bibliographer of Stephen Crane. The collection includes a wealth of substantial correspondence among Stephen Crane researchers, including John Berryman, Edwin Emerson, Lillian B. Gilkes, Melvin Schoberlin, R.W. Stallman, Vincent Starrett, and Louis Zara. A handful of articles written by Williams are also retained. Moreover, Ames' interest in railroad history is apparent as his papers contain printed...
Dates: 1880 - 1980
Found in Notes:  In terms of local history, the Williams collection features photographs and a scrapbook depicting various Maryland and Virginia water landings. The Ames W. Williams Papers are preserved in 8 archival boxes and amount to 8.0 linear feet.

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