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Serials: Thespian Organization of Georgetown Alumni (TOGA) Newsletter

 Collection
Identifier: GTA-000844
Scope and Contents Three issues.Spring 1993 issue includes description of aims of TOGA, article on Black Theatre Ensemble (with photograph of BTE Executive Producer Sylvia Brooks), and article by Donn Murphy re Mask and Bauble lighting work at the White House during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.Winter 1994 issue includes photograph of John Mirvish and article about Nomadic Theatre.Spring 1995 issues includes profiles of Joe Banno and Kathryn Farley and timeline of...
Dates: 1993-1995
Found in: Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:  Spring 1993 issue includes description of aims of TOGA, article on Black Theatre Ensemble (with photograph of BTE Executive Producer Sylvia Brooks), and article by Donn Murphy re Mask and Bauble lighting work at the White House during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations.

Historical Manuscripts Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-700101
Scope and Contents The Historical Manuscripts collection contains documents generated by significant individuals and groups and includes correspondence, handwritten documents, and bound manuscripts. Notable people and organizations include John Barrymore, the Brooke family, Bernard U. Campbell, the Columbia Debating Society, E. Street Baptist Church, Fells Point Hebrew School, Cuthbert Fenwick, Francis Kenrick, John Neumann, and the Population Society. The materials were most likely drawn from the Georgetown...
Dates: 1790 - 1900
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  James Bray Papers
5. Brooke Family Papers
6. Bernard U. Campbell Papers
7.

Record of Enslaved Individuals from the Estate of John L. Millard

 Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 45: [Barcode: 39020030733607], Folder: 27
Identifier: GTM-20250620
Scope and Contents This ledger provides a record of enslaved persons hired out from the estate of John Lewis Millard (misspelled on this document as Milliard) in Leonardtown, St. Mary’s County. Titled "Servants belonging to the Estate of John L. Milliard the year 1845 and to whom hired and for what amounts," the document lists each hirer's name, the names of the enslaved individuals, and amounts allowed or owed.Notably, several entries show a woman named Ginnie who either "hires herself" or...
Dates: 1845 - 1852
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  Further, the ledger occasionally records sums "allowed" to hirers (viz., O. B. Brooke), reflecting deductions granted for specific individuals.

Susan Decatur letter

 Item
Identifier: GTM-140117
Scope and Contents

Autograph letter signed to Stephen Van Rensselaer. Georgetown [District of Columbia]: 21 February 1828, small 4to, 2 pp.

Dates: 1828
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  The Decatur Cottage was built by William Brook, the father of carpenter Joseph Brook. For a history of Decatur Cottage and a description of its many inhabitants, see the "Georgetown College Journal" (Vol. 5, No. 7, p. 73-4, April 1877; Vol. 6, No. 3, p. 34, December 1877; and Vol. 6, No. 5, p. 52, February 1878).

Thomas Armat Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS94
Scope and Contents The Thomas Armat Papers consist of a few letters to Thomas Armat and members of his family and 67 glass plate negatives with photos of documents and early motion picture devices. The correspondence includes 1 letter from Thomas Edison to Armat crediting Armat with the invention of the motion picture projector and 1 letter from Orville Wright to Armat regarding the Smithsonian Institution. Many of the photos are of legal documents for a case, Armat Motion Picture Company v. Edison...
Dates: 1895 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1895 - 1946
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  Gift of Mrs. C. Brooke (Mary T.) Armat, July, 1988

Cynthia P. Schneider Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-011221
Scope and Contents A professor and scholar of seventeenth-century Dutch art, Dr. Cynthia P. Schneider was appointed by President Clinton in 1998 as the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, where she served until 2001. The papers consist of correspondence, daily schedules, notebooks, printed items, and subject files, recording in detail her posting there. It includes letters from Jozias van Aartsen, Jimmy Carter, Wesley K. Clark, her father Anthony L. Perrin, Thomas R. Pickering, and Strobe Talbot, among others....
Dates: 1998 - 2001
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  Schneider teaches, publishes, and organizes initiatives in the field of cultural diplomacy, with a focus on relations with the Muslim world. For the Brookings Institution she leads the Arts and Culture Initiative within the Saban Center for Middle East Policy.

Dorothy Miller Photographic Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-060125
Scope and Contents

The collection primarily consists of photographs taken by Dorothy Miller in Saudi Arabia while she worked for Aramco from the 1940s to the 1970s. It also includes some other documents related to the company.

Dates: 1930 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1970
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  Eventually, Miller learned to do her own developing and by 1959 had garnered enough attention for her hobby that she decided to take an intensive six-week professional photography course at the Brooks Institute in San Francisco. Miller returned to ARAMCO in 1967 as treasurer and continued to take photographs ranging from ARAMCO staff and facilities to the people and countryside of Saudi Arabia.

Colin Campbell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS225
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Colin Campbell Collection contains the transcripts and audio cassette tapes for the interviews conducted by Colin Campbell, Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University, regarding his research on the implementation of cabinet government in the Carter and Reagan administrations and the interaction of central agencies in the nations of the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Canada. The Colin Campbell Collection consists of 6 series, as described below: Series 1: Carter...
Dates: 1976 - 1981
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  On two occasions, Campbell was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. (1979 and 1982-83).

Leonard F. Guttridge - William M. P. Dunne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-051101
Scope and Contents The Leonard F. Guttridge-William M.P. Dunne papers consist of the research files amassed by historian William M.P. Dunne for a book he intended to publish about Stephen Decatur. The collection includes an extensive amount of photocopied documents deriving from original sources at various archives. The documents provide details on the life of Stephen Decatur, his father, and the Decatur family. Some of Dunne's research correspondence is also retained. Of particular importance is a 692 page...
Dates: 1990 - 2005
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  In 1987, he was accepted into the Ph.D. program in history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dunne focused on maritime history. In 1994, he published "Thomas F.

Constantine E. McGuire Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-0016
Scope and Contents The collection primarily contains correspondence and speeches from 1918-1929 during Constantine McGuire's time at the Foreign Service College at Georgetown that document the opening and promotion of the school. The collection includes numerous invitations and responses for lecturerers to teach classes at the Foregin Service College between 1919 and 1922. It also highlights McGuire's continued investment in the college's expansion from 1923 to the end of his life in 1965, including his...
Dates: 1918 - 1965; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1965
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in 1917 and later worked at Brookings Institution as an economist from 1922-1929.

Raymond L. Garthoff papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-130104
Collection level scope/content note This collection reflects Garthoff’s lifelong interest in the intelligence community and the Cold War. The bulk of the collection is newsprint or copies of news articles, and scholarly articles and copies of books on intelligence topics, frequently with marginalia and comments by Garthoff. While some sources are in Russian, the majority of the collection is in English. The collection is divided into two series, one comprised of intelligence coverage in news sources from 1943 to 2010, and the...
Dates: 1919-2011; Majority of material found within 1943-2010
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  Garthoff served as United States Ambassador to Bulgaria from 1977-1979, and also worked at RAND Corporation and as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, as well as a professor at George Washington University and Johns Hopkins Univeristy.

Richard M. Zaner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: BRL-041
Abstract

Papers of philosopher and medical ethicist Richard Morris Zaner (1933-), including writing, correspondence, teaching files, administrative files, and audiovisual recordings.

Dates: 1954 - 2001
Found in: Bioethics Research Library Archives
Found in Notes:  Starting in 1971, Zaner served as the first Director of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Health Sciences Center of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. From 1973-1981, he was Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Southern Methodist University.

Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS97
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Sir Hall Caine Papers primarily consist of correspondence to Sir Hall Caine, comprising .5 linear feet of material arranged in 31 folders in 1 box. A majority of the correspondence in the collection involves Sir Hall's business affairs, including sales, advertisements and film and stage productions. There is a letter from Herbert Brenon regarding the filming of The Woman Thou Gavest Me in 1918 and a letter from Virginia Brooks, an actress in the stage production of the same work. Several...
Dates: 1895-1925
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  There is a letter from Herbert Brenon regarding the filming of The Woman Thou Gavest Me in 1918 and a letter from Virginia Brooks, an actress in the stage production of the same work.

Kathryn Arnow Collection of the President's Biomedical Research Panel Records

 Collection — Box BRL Shared 007: [Barcode: 39020028494758], Folder: 1-4
Identifier: BRL-022
Abstract

The collection consists of records related to the President's Biomedical Research Panel (PBRP), including its final report (with Appendix A and C), the Analysis of Selected Biomedical Research Programs (2 volumes), and summary meeting minutes (1975-1976). The records belonged to Kathryn Arnow, who was a health policy analyst and Chief of the Program Planning Branch in the office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health in the 1970s.

Dates: 1975 - 1976
Found in: Bioethics Research Library Archives
Found in Notes:  During this time, Kathryn also spent a year as a Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Following her career at NSF, she changed her focus to health policy, and became Chief of the Program Planning Branch in the office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health.

Harry L. Hopkins papers 3

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS73
Collection-level Scope and Content Note This collection constitutes the third accession of the papers of Harry Hopkins. Material is grouped into eight series (see Synopsis). Arrangement of the correspondence reflects the successive stages of Hopkins' career. An important aspect of the family correspondence is the letters between Hopkins and his son Robert, which cover the war years (1940 to 1945) during which the latter served in the Army Signal Corps. Letters (of condolence) received by Hopkins regarding the death of his youngest...
Dates: 1917-1979; Majority of material found within 1920-1946
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  He then moved to New York City where he was engaged by Christadora House, a social settlement, to act as counselor at the summer camp in Bound Brook, New Jersey. This was to be the first stage of a distinguished career in social work.

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:  The Decatur Cottage was built by William Brook, the father of carpenter Joseph Brook. For a history of Decatur Cottage and a description of its many inhabitants, see the "Georgetown College Journal" (Vol. 5, No. 7, p. 73-4, April 1877; Vol. 6, No. 3, p. 34, December 1877; and Vol. 6, No. 5, p. 52, February 1878).

Noel Da Costa Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-181130
Scope and Contents The papers of Noel Da Costa, a violinist, composer, and professor who taught music at Rutgers University for over 30 years. The collection primarily consists of music manuscripts by Da Costa, audio recordings (by Da Costa, his students/contemporaries, and commercial recordings), and music manuscripts by others. The collection also contains concert, recital, and event programs, posters, correspondence, photographs, course and research notes, articles and press clippings, and other items. ...
Dates: 1950 - 2002
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  Poets and playwrights whose work has been set to Da Costa's compositions include George Houston Bass, Gwendolyn Brooks, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and others.

Francis B. Biddle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS251
Collection-level Scope and Content Note This collection consists of the personal papers of former U.S. attorney general Francis Biddle. It is one of three portions comprising the larger collection of the Biddle Family papers that include the papers of his wife, Katherine Biddle and a series of family correspondence (see separate finding aids). Of interest are lengthy correspondence files relating to Biddle's appointments as judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1939); U.S. attorney general...
Dates: 1912 - 1968; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1966
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  Notable correspondents include, among many others, Dean Acheson, Conrad Aiken, Thurman Arnold, Bernard Berenson, Henry Beston, Norman Birkett, Alain Bosquet, Van Wyck Brooks, Stimson Bullitt, Roy Basler, William Rose Benet, Richard Crowder, Agnes de Mille, Gertrude Ely, T.S.

Ned O'Gorman Papers 2

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS328
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Ned O'Gorman Papers 2 consist primarily of correspondence, manuscripts, notes and diaries. In addition to personal correspondence and manuscripts, the collection contains material from three projects that O'Gorman undertook. The organization of the papers reflects this, as each of the projects is a separate series. In 1965, O'Gorman returned from a tour in South America and began work on a book for Random House that would be titled "Prophetic Voices: Ideas and Words on...
Dates: 1920 - 2004; Majority of material found within 1960 - 2000
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  O'Gorman received correspondence regarding the event from poets including Daniel Berrigan, Louise Bogan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Eberhart, Abbie Huston Evans, Paul Goodman, Galway Kinnell, Denise Levertov, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, Anais Nin, and Richard Wilbur.

Theodore Maynard Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS329
Scope and Contents The Theodore Maynard Papers consist of the manuscripts of Theodore Maynard and his correspondence with publishers, family members, and numerous literary figures. The collection also includes the manuscripts of Sara Casey Maynard and the original artwork and manuscripts she gathered for a projected children's magazine. A few photographs, newspaper clippings and printed items are also contained in the collection. Included with the collection are over one hundred letters written by literary...
Dates: 1910 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1955
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:  Included with the collection are over one hundred letters written by literary critic Van Wyck Brooks. Other notable pieces of correspondence are letters by Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Padriac and Mary Colum, Ruth Pitter, Ridgeley Torrence, William Butler Yeats and Aldous Huxley.

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