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Rudolph J. Eichhorn Photograph Album
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 24: [Barcode: 39020030754892], Folder: 3
Identifier: GTM-0073
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photographs collected/taken by Rudolph J. Eichhorn (later known as Douglas C. Vaile) during his Jesuit formation, including pictures of Georgetown College/Washington, DC, St. Andrew-on-Hudson, and Woodstock College; teachers and fellow seminarians; recreational activities like handball, tennis, and baseball; and several family members such as his mother Louise and sister Gertrude. Fellow Jesuits pictured are: Cornelius Herlihy, Thomas F. Gear, William A. Schmitt,...
Dates:
1908 - 1913
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1935 he was stationed at the Church of the Sacred Heart (La Plata, Maryland) and in 1936 at Mt.
Michael de la Bédoyère papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS123
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Michael de la Bedoyere papers primarily contain correspondence received from editors and colleagues of the Catholic Herald, as well as from other Catholic journals. Of interest is the correspondence exchanged between Count de la Bedoyere and the Catholic Herald concerning his resignation. Included is correspondence from several of the publishers of books by Count de la Bedoyere.
Span dates: 1929-1960 Bulk dates: 1950-1960 Extent: 0.50 linear feet, 1 box
Dates:
1929-1960; Majority of material found within 1950-1960
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Count de la Bedoyere published many books: The Drift of Democracy (1931) Lafayette, a Revolutionary Gentleman (1933) George Washington, an English Judgement (1935) Sociology: Vol. 5 of European Civilization: Its Origin and Development (1936) Christian Crisis (1940) Christianity in the Market Place (1943) No Dreamers Weak ((1944) Catherine, Saint of Siena (1946) The Life of Baron von Hugel (1951) Living Christianity (1954) The Layman in the Church (1955) Cardinal Griffin (1955) The Archbishop and the Lady (1956) The Meddlesome Friar (1958) The Cardijn Story (1958) Francois de Sales (1959) Francis, Saint of Assisi (1962) Objections to Roman Catholicism (editor, 1964) The Future of Catholic Christianity (editor, 1966).
Crawford Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS261
Scope and Contents
The Crawford Family Papers contain primary source materials generated by a prominent nineteenth century Georgetown family, the Crawfords. Letters and writings of Richard R. Crawford, who served as mayor of Georgetown in the 1850s, shed light onto his term in that office, his legal career apart from his mayorship, and the community's politics. Crawford's lengthy manuscript letterbook containing letters he wrote in 1857 and 1858 to the Georgetown Board of Aldermen and Common Council is the...
Dates:
1812 - 1896
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Other collections covering Georgetown history in the 1800s include the Stephen and Susan Decatur Papers, the Archives of Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, and the research files for the book "Black Georgetown Remembered" (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1991), among others.
Lady Bronwen Astor papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS323
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The collection consists of materials regarding Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the associations that formed to continue his legacy. The papers were collected by Lady Bronwen Astor, a long-standing council member of The Teilhard Association of Great Britain and Ireland. Consisting of original correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes, reports, announcements, conference information, and a few manuscripts, the papers have been left in their original chronological order so that the history of the...
Dates:
1966-1984; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1984
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
"After her initial discovery of Teilhard de Chardin, Bronwen devoured each of his books as soon as it appeared in translation," wrote Peter Stanford in his 2000 biography, "Here was a man far removed from the Christian church of her upbringing, who could describe an experience of God in a way that mirrored her own mystical experience."
Edward Rice Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS448
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Edward Rice Collection includes correspondence regarding Jubilee Magazine, issues of Jubilee Magazine, information of Rice's friend, Thomas Merton, photographs, and artwork.
Dates:
1928 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1978
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Rice and Lax established the A.M.D.G Publishing Company in 1950 to publish their creation, Jubilee magazine "for the Church and her people." The magazine's first issue was published in April 1953, at which point Rice quit his six year position at RKO Pathe News and Warner Pathe News.
Edward Rice Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS465
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Edward Rice Papers 2. This collection consists of printed items gathered by Edward Rice, Catholic author and photographer. Among the documents are travel guides, brochures, and pamphlets from across the world, as well as an extensive collection of postcards. Of particular significance are the documents from India, Papua New Guinea, Trinidad and Tobago, and Greece. Also included in the collection are advertisements, articles, and book reviews as well as full copies of The New...
Dates:
1943 - 1988
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Rice and Lax established the A.M.D.G Publishing Company in 1950 to publish their creation, Jubilee magazine "for the Church and her people." The magazine's first issue was published in April 1953, at which point Rice quit his six year position at RKO Pathe News and Warner Pathe News.
Joseph Kennedy, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS77
Scope and contents note
The Joseph Kennedy, S.J. papers is a small collection of miscellaneous correspondence received by Fr. Kennedy along with some biographical data and miscellaneous articles and printed matter that interested him. The primary interest of the collection is the information accumulated by Fr. Kennedy on the case of Susan Decatur, wife of the famous naval commodore, Stephen Decatur, Jr. The latter lost his life in a duel with Commodore James Barron in Bladensburg, Maryland in March 1820. After his...
Dates:
1912 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1984
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
From 1975 until 1980 he became associate pastor at the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Baltimore, Maryland.
John Early, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTA-GAMMS22
Scope and Contents
The John Early, SJ Papers include a diary from his second presidency at Georgetown College (1870-1873) along with correspondence, spiritual writings and notes, and printed material. Of note within the correspondence are letters describing the Civil War’s impact on the school.
Dates:
1834 - 1873
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
After his ordination at Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown (1845), he remained at the college as a lecturer in logic, metaphysics, and moral philosophy at Georgetown while simultaneously attending the Jesuit mission in Laurel, Maryland, known as “the Factory” (1845-1847).
Arnold Lunn Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS143
Scope and Contents
The Arnold Lunn Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks and related printed ephemera regarding the life and works of Sir Arnold Lunn (1888 - 1974). The papers, dating from 1896 to 1978, comprise 21 linear feet of material, arranged in fourteen boxes, consisting of five hundred and thirty-two folders.The papers are arranged in series according to subjects. There are five correspondence series, namely World War I Correspondence, Ski...
Dates:
1896 - 1978
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Subjects:
Catholic Church -- Great Britain
Found in Notes:
Coulton in Is the Catholic Church Anti-Social? (1946). He became a renown Catholic convert as well as a noted Catholic author.
Edward I. Devitt, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-000007
Scope and Contents
The Edward I. Devitt, SJ Papers contain diaries, sermons, correspondence, manuscripts, and miscellaneous material. Of note are his accounts of early post-war social and political events in Washington, DC (box 1 folders 1-2), which often focus on the Black population of the area. Within his near-daily diaries he describes the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln; post-war legislation such as the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; anniversary celebrations of emancipation in the District; and the...
Dates:
1854 - 1920
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Subjects:
Catholic Church -- United States -- History
Antonia White - Carmen Callil Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-120607
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the personal files relating to British author Antonia White (1899-1980) maintained by Carmen Callil, founder and editor of Virago Press. Callil was also White's co-literary executor together with White's daughters Lyndall Hopkinson Passerini and Susan Chitty. The collection includes correspondence Callil exchanged with Passerini and White. Important series include copies of White's dream diaries, as well as files relating to her literary estate and related court...
Dates:
1926 - 1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The marriage was permitted by the church, but within a year she had lapsed as a Catholic.
Tonita Ridgway Martin Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS340
Scope and Contents
The Tonita Ridgway Martin Papers comprise the personal papers of longtime Georgetown resident Tonita Ridgway Martin along with some of her relatives' materials. Of note are a few documents relating to the life of New York Catholic Dominick Lynch I, whose will is included, and more documents relating to U.S. naval officer Dominick Lynch III, whose two brief but fascinating journals regarding Ecuador and Hawaii are retained. Also preserved is Tonita Ridgway Martin's personal collection of...
Dates:
1796 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1949
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
On June 8, 1926, in Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown, she married Robert H. Martin, who died on November 15, 1966, in Hollywood, Florida.
Edward O'Dowd Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS188
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Edward J. O'Dowd Papers are a gift of his niece, Miss J.D. Marguerite Horrigan. The collection consists of a biographical sketch by Miss Horrigan about her uncle; an autograph/memento book belonging to O'Dowd, photographs and some printed items. Abbreviations used in this register include: EO'D (Edward O'Dowd); TLS (typed letter signed). Bulk dates: 1907-1948 Span dates: 1908-1985 Size: 0.25 linear feet, 1 Box
Dates:
1907 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1907 - 1948
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
According to his niece, there may have been a 'falling out' with church authorities, and his relationship was never quite the same again.
Eric Gill - H. Cotton Minchin Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS299
Scope and Contents
The Eric Gill - H. Cotton Minchin Collection consists of correspondence dated 1928 to 1929, mostly from Eric Gill to H. Cotton Minchin, concerning an engraving that Gill provided for "The Legion Book." That book was edited by Minchin and published in 1929, and contributions and illustrations were solicited from the leading writers and artists of the day, including Gill. In the letters, Gill discusses the details for the work to be done. One of the letters in the collection is from Gill to...
Dates:
1928 - 1929
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1913, Gill was received into the Catholic church. Using Hoptonwood stone, he carved the stations of the cross for Westminster Cathedral from 1914 to 1918, and he produced the famous "Mankind" in 1928 with the same stone.
Alan Gabriel Barnsley Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS76
Scope and Contents
The Alan G. Barnsley Papers consist of eight letters from such prominent writers as Ian Fleming, C.S. Lewis, Muriel Spark and Stephen Spender.
Abbreviations used in this register include: ALS (autograph letter signed); TLS (typed letter signed).
Dates:
1954-1959; Majority of material found within 1954 - 1959
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
His father was George Barnsley, a clergyman of the Church of England (Barnsley converted to Catholicism in 1952), and his mother was Katherine Fielding, a playwright and purportedly a descendant of the eighteenth-century novelist Henry Fielding.
Julie and Thomas Kernan papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS181
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Julie and Thomas Kernan papers are organized into 7 series: correspondence by notable individuals and friends who were frequent correspondents; files on Jacques and Raissa Maritain; correspondence by Julie and Thomas Kernan; subject files which include correspondence and material about the various organizations and miscellaneous business that the Kernans were involved with; manuscripts and published works by Julie and Thomas Kernan; a large collection of information and...
Dates:
1765-1988; Majority of material found within 1940-1975
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Her published works include: “The Catholic Church in Action,” in collaboration with Michael Williams (1934); “St.
Alexis Carrel Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-530913
Scope and Contents
This collection contains material on all facets of Alexis Carrel's career as well as files dealing with his cancer studies, tactile sensibility experiments, physiological and psychological research done on mice, and the effect of infusing blood from young dogs into older ones.The collection also includes Carrel's laboratory notebooks and other experimental records together with his literary writings and general correspondence. There are numerous medical articles and photographs,...
Dates:
1893 - 1973
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Carrel received the last rites from the Roman Catholic Church. He died in 1944 in Paris.
[Sources: Encyclopedia Britannica Online; encyclopedia.com Online; and nobelprize.org Online].
[Sources: Encyclopedia Britannica Online; encyclopedia.com Online; and nobelprize.org Online].
H. A. Jules-Bois Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS114
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The H. A. Jules-Bois Papers primarily consist of 1 linear foot manuscripts of poetry and essays by and about H. A. Jules-Bois with a small amount of correspondence and clippings, arranged in 78 folders in 2 boxes. The H. A. Jules-Bois Papers primarily consist of manuscripts of verse and prose by Jules-Bois, most of which are in individual folders arranged by title, first poetry and then essays. The papers also include a small portion of correspondence between Jules-Bois and Jean le Cardinal...
Dates:
1824 - 1945; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1940
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The papers also include a small portion of correspondence between Jules-Bois and Jean le Cardinal Verdier concerning Jules-Bois' Le Satanisme et la Magie which had been put in the Catholic Church's index of prohibited books. Some writings about Jules-Bois are also in the papers, with a personal sketch of Jules-Bois by Patrick Colum and an essay about Jules-Bois works by an unknown author.
Martin J. Quigley Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS142
Scope and Contents
The Martin J. Quigley Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs and related printed ephemera regarding Quigley Publications, the Production Code, and the Legion of Decency. The papers, dating from 1917 to 1970, comprise 4.5 linear feet of material, arranged into 4 boxes and 260 folders. The collection is organized into series as follows:Series 1. Individual Correspondence. Files of correspondence from individuals arranged alphabetically. Includes notables such as...
Dates:
1917 - 1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Furthermore, Quigley was also influential in the origins and development of the Legion of Decency, an organization sponsored by the Catholic Church. The Legion of Decency, through movie reviews and classifications, identified motion pictures deemed morally objectionable to the viewing public.
Virginia M. Keeler Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS324
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection is the second accession of materials used by Virginia M. Keeler in writing her Master's thesis on the life and art of Brother Francis C. Schroen, S.J. Brother Schroen painted the decorative artwork throughout Healy Hall on the campus of Georgetown University as one of his many large-scale projects. Keeler, the longtime Secretary of the University, submitted her thesis on April 29, 1989 to the School for Continuing Education at Georgetown. The collection consists of...
Dates:
1967 - 1993; Majority of material found within 1990 - 1993
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The photographs feature Brother Schroen's paintings at Boston College, Georgetown University and Holy Trinity Church in Kingston, Jamaica.
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