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Patrick T. Bakman Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS182
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the career of theater director Patrick Bakman. It contains notes on a myriad aspects of production, including cast and technical staff contact lists, rehearsal schedules, costume and prop lists, script revisions and cuts, scene summaries or breakdowns, as well as printed reviews and programs relating to the performance. In addition, there are resource files regarding opera histories, period costumes, furniture and culture, which Bakman used to research and...
Dates:
1891 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1990
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Colorado Opera Festival: The Rake's Progress 1977; Carmen 1978; La Cenerentola 1978; Xerxes 1978; La Boheme 1980; Rigoletto 1982; Madama Butterfly 1985; Faust 1986.
Stephen and Susan Decatur papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS245
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Donated to Georgetown College by Susan Decatur, the widow of the War of 1812 naval hero Stephen Decatur (1779-1820), the Stephen and Susan Decatur Papers consist of one letter book containing letters dated from 1812 to 1813 written to Commodore Decatur congratulating him on the victory of the U.S.S. "United States" against the H.M.S. "Macedonian," two letters dated 1812 to him from U.S. Navy Secretary Paul Hamilton, and 16 letters to Susan Decatur dated between 1831 and 1845. Contained in...
Dates:
1812 - 1845
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Bossuet, Jacques Benigne. "Exposition de la Doctrine de l'Eglise Catholique sur les Matieres de Controverse."
Davidson Black - William Diller Matthew collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-931227
Scope and Contents note
The Black-Matthew Collection consists of 19 transcribed letters between Davidson Black and William Diller Matthew, with 1 letter from Black to Herbert M. Evans regarding the above letters, from 1929 to 1932. The letters are arranged in 20 folders and contained in one box.Much of the correspondence between Black and Matthew regards contemporary theories surrounding Java Man, Sinanthropus, and Piltdown man, including Matthew's theores of how climate may have affected early man's...
Dates:
1929-31
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
References are made to many noted anthropologists of the day, including Roy Chapman Andrews, Birgir Bohlin, Ales Hrdlicka, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Rev. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., and Grafton Elliot Smith.
Joseph A. Mulry, SJ Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-851101
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence from Joseph A. Mulry, SJ to his nephew and niece as well as Advent conferences given while interned in Los Baños, Philippines. Also included are writings regarding his social action work in Manila and correspondence/reminiscences of Mulry after his death in 1945. Further, there are postcards of Philippine scenes collected by Mulry and several photographs of the priest.
Dates:
1918 - 1987
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He then spent the next two decades as a professor for the Ateneo de Manila (Philippines, 1924-1944), with a brief sabbatical back in the US in 1934.
Pieter H. G. Verhoog Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS186
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The collection is oriented around Commodore Verhoog's special interest in Christopher Columbus, specifically, the latter's first landfall in the Caribbean Islands in 1492. Of interest, regarding the subject, is correspondence between Comm. Verhoog and Columbus scholars and naval historians such as K.W.L. Bezemer, Ludovic Kennedy, Carlos Sanz, E.M. Shilstone, P.V.H. Weems, and geologist Clifford Kaye. Also included are offprints of papers written by the foregoing about the Columbus landfall....
Dates:
1543 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1953
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
On graduation from the Kweekschool voor de Zeevaart (naval training academy) in Amsterdam, Comm.
Horace B. McKenna, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-821201
Scope and Contents
The Rev. Horace B. McKenna, SJ Papers are comprised of files kept by Father McKenna at the time of his death. Consequently, they date primarily from the 1960's and 1970's and concern his activities as assistant pastor of St. Aloysius Church and his involvement in numerous projects. Father McKenna was a major force in the adoption of innovative social action programs to combat problems encountered in the inner-city. The papers contain files on his work with the St. Vincent De Paul Society, as...
Dates:
1899 - 2001
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Aloysius became a hub of social outreach, housing the St. Vincent de Paul Society--where community members could seek assistance--and hosting McKenna’s informal Sunday afternoon "coffee klatsch."
Washington Irving Letterbook
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS247
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Washington Irving Letterbook (1 box, 0.25 linear feet) consists of one bound letterbook containing handwritten copies of outgoing letters dated from 1842 to 1844 written by Irving (1783-1859) while he served as U.S. Minister to Spain (1842-1846). Although most of these letters were copied in the hand of Irving's secretary, a number of them seem to have been copied by Irving himself in his own hand. Irving's richly descriptive writing style shines through in these letters as he analyzes...
Dates:
1842 - 1844
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
His publication of "The History of the Life and Voyages of Columbus" in 1828 won him election into the Real Academia de la Historia. Of note, he also proved his worth an interpreter of Spanish legend and culture by writing "A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada" (1829) and "The Alhambra" (1832).
International Iranian Students Protest Collection
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 47 (Oversized): Series 1499 [Barcode: 39020031369724], Folder: 4
Identifier: GTM-0098
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of four flyers promoting protests against the Iranian government and the Shah (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi) in the 1960s and 1970s. Two of the documents are from Northern California and the other two are from France.The following descriptions were produced by Bolerium Books:1) A hungry nation does not need a 2500 year celebration!... Join us in opposing it [handbill]. n.p.:
Iranian Students Association in the USA, [1971]. 8.5x14 inch handbill,...
Dates:
1960s-1970s
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
(Handbill, a canvassing for letter-writers
to the Iranian Embassy in Paris to protest detentions): La Situation des Prisonniers Politiques en
Iran [2 parts, a leaf of mimeo'd text plus a professionally printed card].
Gozos Devotional Broadsides Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-140708
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of gozos (also known as gosos or goigs) and other religious devotional printed pieces from the Catalan region of Spain, dating from 1776 to 1982. Many of the gozos relate to Mary, mother of Jesus.It includes:Single folio volume, bound in contemporary tree calf (scuffed) with “Collecion/de/Gozos” stamped on cover. This volume contains 310 separately printed single-sided illustrated broadsides, each with a woodcut (and usually some other...
Dates:
Creation: 1776 - 1982
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
It includes:
Single folio volume, bound in contemporary tree calf (scuffed) with “Collecion/de/Gozos” stamped on cover. This volume contains 310 separately printed single-sided illustrated broadsides, each with a woodcut (and usually some other decorative elements) as well as text.
Single folio volume, bound in contemporary tree calf (scuffed) with “Collecion/de/Gozos” stamped on cover. This volume contains 310 separately printed single-sided illustrated broadsides, each with a woodcut (and usually some other decorative elements) as well as text.
American Song Sheet collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS240
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The American Song Sheet Collection comprises a relatively cohesive group of 234 song sheets published in the United States (and principally in New York, by de Marsan) in the 1850's and during the early years of the Civil War. There are songs of African American interest, a few relating to events in the Civil War, and at least one exploiting a German accented singer. But of principal note are the fairly large number of songs dealing with the immigrant Irish or their native land, from "The...
Dates:
1850-1865; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1865
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The American Song Sheet Collection comprises a relatively cohesive group of 234 song sheets published in the United States (and principally in New York, by de Marsan) in the 1850's and during the early years of the Civil War.
Leonard Z. Lawrence Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS350
Scope and Contents
The Leonard Z. Lawrence Papers contain items related to the construction of the Panama Canal. Included is a lengthy report written by Leonard Z. Lawrence, dated December 1911 to January 1912, regarding issues relating to the dynamite used in construction of the canal, along with photographs of discussed areas and topics. Two letters to Leonard Z. Lawrence from the E.I. DuPont de Nemours Powder Company, dated 1912, are also included. Also contained in this collection is a menu and list of...
Dates:
1911 - 1924; Majority of material found within 1911 - 1912
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Lawrence from the E.I. DuPont de Nemours Powder Company, dated 1912, are also included.
French Military Treatise
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS451
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Dating to the period of the French Revolution and handwritten in French, this military treatise on French battle tactics is contained in 32 folders in one 0.25 linear-foot box. The text covers a wide variety of topics, such as encampment, mountain warfare, artillery, military reconnaissance, and attack and defensive tactics. The material includes references to Buonaparte, the Italian Campaign of 1796, the Cairo Campaign, Louis XVII, Le Duc de Castries, and Lord Camelford. This treatise is a...
Dates:
1786 - 1799
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Folder 1 suggests that this treatise, or at least part of it, was dedicated to Le Duc de Castries. A page in folder 32 bears the name of Lord Camelford.
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:
Rowe managed a power plant in the La Boca neighborhood of Panama City. He also was resident engineer in the Canal Commission's Building Division.
Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS122
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren papers consist of one scrapbook intact, containing material dating from 1885 through 1888; a fragment of a scrapbook, containing material dating 1877 through 1879; and one tintype, possibly of the Irish statesman, Charles Stewart Parnell. The following description of this collection begins with the complete scrapbook, designated Scrapbook I. The fragmented Scrapbook II follows, with the tintype as the last item in the collection. Itemization of material within...
Dates:
1877-1888
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Dahlgren translated various foreign language works: 'Pius IX and France in 1849 and 1859' by Charles Forbes Rene de Tryon, Count of Montalembert (from French, 1861); 'Essay on Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism Considered in Their Fundamental Principles,' bu Juan Donoso Cortes, Marquis of Valdegamas (from Spanish, 1862); and 'The Executive Power in the United States: A Study of Constitutional Law,' by Charles Adolphe de Pineton, marquis of Chambrun (from French, 1874).
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
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
A year later, he was appointed aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant and held the position for the rest of the war.
Barnes Publishing Company Photographic Archives
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS63
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Barnes Collection is the photographic morgue file of the Barnes Company, which specialized in the production of albums reproducing the faces and giving capsule biographies of members of Congress during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The collection includes 501 imperial carte de visite photographs, principally of members of Congress from 1872 to 1876, many of the photographs being embellished by added signatures trimmed from letters or other documents.
Dates:
1875 - 1880; Majority of material found in 1875 - 1875
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The collection includes 501 imperial carte de visite photographs, principally of members of Congress from 1872 to 1876, many of the photographs being embellished by added signatures trimmed from letters or other documents.
Lucile Swan Photograph Album
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030734779]
Identifier: GTM-090102
Scope and Contents
A photograph album from Lucile Swan's life in China (1930-1939), including pictures of her sculpting, Chinese cultural events, the landscape of Beijing, and her friend John Carter Vincent (a Foreign Service Officer) and his wife Elizabeth ("Betty").
Dates:
1930 - 1939
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
During Swan's time there (1929-1941) she created the portrait bust of Teilhard de Chardin, now at the Museum of Natural History in Paris; and a reconstruction (nicknamed "Nelly" by Teilhard) of one of the skulls of sinanthropus, the "Peking Man," under the supervision of Franz Weidenreich, German anatomist and paleoanthropologist.
Joyce Kilmer Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS83
Scope and Contents
The Joyce Kilmer papers consist of three categories of material: correspondence, manuscripts, and printed material (news clippings, photographs, and scores for music set to poems by Joyce and Aline Kilmer). Letters include those from Joyce Kilmer to Aline Kilmer (total 44), to his young son Kenton (total 4), and to friends such as Rev. James J. Daly, S.J., and to Rev. Charles O'Donnell, C.S.C. Other correspondence is that of Joyce Kilmer's mother, Annie Kilburn Kilmer to friends William L....
Dates:
1907 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1941
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Arthemise Dalton, O.P. and Sister Roberta Marie Sherry, S.N.D. de N., provide biographical information on Aline Kilmer.
Andre Gide - Jane Norton collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS419
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Andre Gide - Jane Norton Collection contains 12 autograph letters signed from noted French author Andre Gide to Jane Norton. The correspondence touches on various published works requested by Gide or mentioned by him. The letters are dated 1929 to 1930. The Gide - Norton Collection is stored in one small archival box (0.25 linear feet). All of the letters in this collection are published in full in the following article: Betz, Dorothy M. "Andre Gide in 1929-1930: An Unpublished...
Dates:
1929-1930
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
A year later, Gide was elected mayor of the commune of La Roque. In 1897, he produced "Fruits of the Earth."
Belloc, Hilaire - Chesterton, G.K., collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-190528
Content Description
Letters, manuscripts, printed source material and photographs relating to Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton.
Dates:
1919-1984; Majority of material found in 1920-1930
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Hilaire Belloc (born 27 July 1870- 16 July 1953) was a distinguished English writer, poet, essayist, and historian. Born in La Celle-Saint Cloud, France, he was educated at the Oratory School in Birmingham.