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Cleary, Nicholas Collection

Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030727963]

Identifier: GTM-0020

Scope and Contents Imperial Map of the City of Edo, Japan, circa 1850. Includes the wooden box that originally contained the 1860 gift of alumnus Nicholas Cleary, with his inscription detailing the gift of this map and a book of costumes, no longer present.This collection has been digitized and is available to view online in DigitalGeorgetown....

Dates: 1860

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Gift of Nicholas Cleary, 1860.

Found in Finding Aid Title: Nicholas Cleary Collection

Found in Finding Aid Filing Title: Cleary, Nicholas Collection

Cleary, William B., SJ Papers

Collection

Identifier: GTM-20240103

Scope and Contents

The William B. Cleary, SJ Papers contain a commonplace book maintained by Cleary during his Jesuit formation and early teaching career as well as correspondence, certificates, and other miscellaneous documents.

Dates: 1854 - 1884

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Creators: Cleary, William B., 1837-1884

Found in Notes: The William B. Cleary, SJ Papers contain a commonplace book maintained by Cleary during his Jesuit formation and early teaching career as well as correspondence, certificates, and other miscellaneous documents.

Found in Finding Aid Title: William B. Cleary, SJ Papers

Found in Finding Aid Filing Title: Cleary, William B., SJ Papers

Cleary, William B., 1837-1884

Person

Palm-leaf book (ola) in Tamil

Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 39: [Barcode: 39020030727997]

Identifier: GTM-0064

Scope and Contents

Palm-leaf book (ola) in Tamil, with wooden boards and cord tie, from Chennai (Madras).

Dates: 1850 - 1900

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Curatorial file found with the Nicholas Cleary Collection.

Chinese Serial, Vol. II No. 6

Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 41: [Barcode: 39020030727955], Folder: 1

Identifier: GTM-0061

Scope and Contents

"Chinese Serial", a newspaper in Chinese printed at the English missionary school Ying Wa College in Hong Kong, with a table of contents in English showing recent major events around the world, and a map of the two hemispheres. The volume was originally stab-bound with twisted paper ties, now disbound. The front page displays a Riggs Library stamp and the written name "Capt. J. Pope / U.S.S. Vandalia".

Dates: 1854-06-01

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Curatorial file found with the Nicholas Cleary Collection.

Cuneiform tablet

Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 39: [Barcode: 39020030727997]

Identifier: GTM-0067

Content Description

Unknown text in cuneiform.

Dates: 900-300 BCE

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: GTM-0067 was transferred from the GU Art Unit to the Manuscripts Unit after 2015 and added to the Nicholas Cleary Collection. Curatorial file found with the Nicholas Cleary Collection.

San Francisco China News

Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 22 (Oversized): [Barcode: 39020030724515], Folder: 10

Identifier: GTM-18740714

Scope and Contents

Single copy of the premier issue of the broadsheet San Francisco China News, July 14, 1874.

Dates: 1874-07-14

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Curatorial file found with the Nicholas Cleary Collection.

Japanese sutra scroll, Bussetsu Amida Kyo

Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 39: [Barcode: 39020030727997]

Identifier: GTM-0065

Scope and Contents

Mortuary scroll with the text of the Bussetsu Amida Kyo, or the Shorter Amida Sutra, written in shell gold on indigo-dyed paper; the calligrapher dates the scroll to 1688, one year after the death of their father.

Dates: 1688

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Curatorial file found with the Nicholas Cleary Collection.

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: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Curatorial file found with the Nicholas Cleary Collection.

Protestant missionary tracts in Malay and Thai (Siamese)

Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 41: [Barcode: 39020030727955], Folder: 3

Identifier: GTM-0063

Scope and Contents Two Protestant missionary tracts published in South East Asia: one published in 1838 in Bangkok in the Thai language and script, "On the Final Judgement" by Dr. Dan Bradley of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; the other published in 1837 in Singapore in the Malay language using Arabic script, also by American missionaries, recounting the story of the Arab Christian converts Abdullah and Sabat. Both tracts bear an inscription describing the respective text and its...

Dates: 1838

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Curatorial file found with the Nicholas Cleary Collection.

Japanese stab bound manuscript book in cursive or grass script

Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 41: [Barcode: 39020030727955], Folder: 4

Identifier: GTM-0068

Scope and Contents

Traditional stab bound book containing the Japanese text of the 16th century Noh play "Kurama-tengu" written in cursive, or grass script.

Dates: 1900 - 1940

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Curatorial file found with the Nicholas Cleary Collection.

Siamese folding-book manuscript

Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 41: [Barcode: 39020030727955], Folder: 2

Identifier: GTM-0062

Scope and Contents Siamese folding-book manuscript with 15 "leaves" or panels having text written on both sides. An accompanying letter (now in the curatorial file) from Prince Nandiyavat Svastivatana (“Svasti”), from 15 June 1931, when he was a student of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, describing the book and its text as "an incomplete work in verse", with the first side of the manuscript relating the "story of of the young Prince named Chandawongs, a grandson... of the King of...

Dates: 1850

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: Curatorial file found with the Nicholas Cleary Collection.

Booth Family Center Collection of Middle East Manuscripts

Collection

Identifier: GTM-760101a

Scope and Contents This collection contains manuscripts written in Persian and Turkish (in Arabic script) as well as a number of Arabic dialects. It is an artificial collection compiled by past archivists of previously donated or purchased Arabic script materials. The texts vary widely in subject matter and include Korans and other religious works; books of history and poetry; and a Kama Sutra. The provenance and dates of acquisition vary from item to item and are noted, when known, at the box level. Note that...

Dates: 1544-1800s

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts

Found in Notes: GTM-0069), previously included in the Nicholas Cleary Collection (GTM-0020), were added to this collection in October 2024 and placed in Shared Boxes 20 & 22.

Photographs: Campus and Surrounding Area (Oversize)

Collection

Identifier: GTA-000769

Scope and Contents Box 1 includes:Leslie's illustration: View of Georgetown, Washington and Alexandria, taken from Columbian [Georgetown] College, Georgetown Heights, The Quarters of the 69th Regiment of New York, 1861Harper's Weekly illustration: Quarters of the Sixty-Ninth (Irish) Regiment New York State Militia, at Georgetown College, D.C, June 1861Brady image from Virginia showing Aqueduct Bridge, Holy Trinity Church and Maguire, Mulledy and Gervase...

Dates: 1829-ca. 1989

Found in: Georgetown University Archives

Found in Notes: Weston, Chaplain of the Seventh Regiment, at Camp Cameron, on Sunday, May 5, 1861

Campus from the Observatory, ca. 1865

Georgetown waterfront by William Smith, 1865

Fathers Mulledy, Early and Cleary, S.J. in Jesuit Cemetery at grave of Joseph King, S.J., 1865 [reproduction from ambrotype]

Image showing stone wall along Warren (37th Street), handball court and Maguire, Mulledy, Gervase and Old North, ca. 1867

Pump shed in the Quadrangle, ca. 1875

Decatur Cottage and Bachelor Hall (with Visitation wall in foreground), ca. 1885

Campus from Aqueduct Bridge, after 1906

Commencement 1919 and the planting of the World War I memorial trees

Healy Circle and Georgetown Field [athletic field], ca 1920 - with cars parked around circle

Athletic field, ca. 1925

The Walks, undated

John Carroll Statue, undated

Cannon in front of Healy Hall (with plaque), undated

Box 2 includes:

Engraving of campus with Old South and Old North, 1829 (from Prospectus)

Engraving of campus (Old North, Maguire, Old South, Mulledy, Gervase), ca. 1851 as used in 1850-1851 catalog

View from top of Washington Monument looking north west towards campus, ca. 1884

Views of Healy Hall

Old North before 1925

Main entrance to White-Gravenor, ca. 1935

Mass in the Quadrangle after the assassination of President Kennedy, 1963

Aerial views including some in color, ca. 1920s-1980s

Detail of Lauinger Library, ca. 1970

View from south tower of Healy Hall, ca. 1890

View from south tower of Healy Hall, undated (includes Car Barn)

Color images of campus from yearbook (The Quadrangle, and John Carroll Statue), undated

View from Building F looking northwest as a study of the Transportation Center and surroundings with Podium F in the foreground by University Architect Dean Price, 1989

Mall looking east to the Capitol - the Smithsonian Institution at center, ca. 1900, inscribed: Merry Christmas to the Very Special Collections Division from the Office Pest, a.k.a.

Photographs: Commencements

Collection

Identifier: GTA-000599

Scope and Contents Includes photographs of: 1916 commencement showing platform and part of the audience; 1924 commencement (with William Smith Flynn receiving honorary degree from U.S. President Calvin Coolidge)(moved to Archives map case 5 drawer 1);1926 commencement; June 4, 1944 commencement (in Gaston Hall, with nurses and graduates in military uniform)(moved to Archives map case 5 drawer 1);President Lawrence C. Gorman, S.J., Charles J. Milton,...

Dates: 1916-1979 and undated

Found in: Georgetown University Archives

Found in Notes: Fitzpatrick, Richard P. Whitely, William Cleary Sullivan and James S. McDonough, Edward Roach, and Joseph D.

Cleary, Harold.

File

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is comprised of photographs that were used in Quigley Publications, active under various titles since 1915 in motion picture industry trade publishing (Motion Picture Herald, Motion Picture Daily, and others). It is primarily an assemblage of publicity photographs that feature individuals associated with the motion picture industry: producers, directors, animators, and their colleagues. Actors and actresses figure less prominently, but are also represented among the...

Dates: undated.; Majority of material found within 1906 - 1972

Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Quigley Photographic Archive / Series I. Individuals / Clark, Herbert — Clofine

Found in Notes: Photograph of Harold Cleary, vice-president and comptroller of Loew's Theatres, Inc. and director.

Cleary, Tom.

File

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is comprised of photographs that were used in Quigley Publications, active under various titles since 1915 in motion picture industry trade publishing (Motion Picture Herald, Motion Picture Daily, and others). It is primarily an assemblage of publicity photographs that feature individuals associated with the motion picture industry: producers, directors, animators, and their colleagues. Actors and actresses figure less prominently, but are also represented among the...

Dates: 1949 - 1956.; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1956