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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:
Many of the photos are of legal documents for a case, Armat Motion Picture Company v. Edison Manufacturing Company.
Margaret Bonds Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-130530
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of hundreds of pages of Margaret Bond's music manuscripts and manuscript fragments, letters and cards from Langston Hughes and others, photographs, programs, and ephemera.
See the External Documents section below for a detailed inventory to the collection.
Dates:
1917-1971, 2020-2025; Majority of material found within 1930s-1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Published scores based on manuscripts found in this collection were donated by Hildegard Publishing Company, 2020-2022.
The collection combines the following accessions: GTM-130530, GTM-140319, GTM-140611, GTM-20160401, and GTM-20220412.
The collection combines the following accessions: GTM-130530, GTM-140319, GTM-140611, GTM-20160401, and GTM-20220412.
Edward F. Morley U.S. Navy Photograph Album
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030726585]
Identifier: GTM-20210430
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the six-year career of Edward F. Morley, was a sailor in the U.S. Navy serving in the Pacific from 1935 to 1941. It consists of one photograph album and one scrapbook. The album contains 279 photographs, including ships at Pearl Harbor, and other stops in Long Beach, Norfolk Air Station, Panama, Parris Island, San Diego, Washington, Haiti, and Guantanamo, as well as images of friends and family at home. Many of the photographs depict shipboard life,...
Dates:
1935 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1941
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Purchased from William Reese Company, 2021.
Lloyd Wheaton Bowers papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-741001
Scope and content note
The bulk of Bowers' correspondence deals with inquiries pertaining to government positions and appointments, especially relating to the federal judgeship for the Chicago district. Some of the cases discussed in the correspondence are: Barber & Moon Lumber Company Case; New York Harbor Pollution Case; and the Montana lands, Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Department. Bowers' correspondence, of a semi-official nature, encompasses the year 1909-1910. The bulk of the correspondence deals...
Dates:
1909-1910
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He then became general counsel of the Chicago & North Western Railway Company until 1909, when he was appointed by President Taft as Solicitor General of the United States.
Joseph P. Orme Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS317
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The collection contains eight autograph letters written by Georgetown College alumni to fellow alumus, Joseph P. Orme, between the years 1856 and 1860. The content of the letters range from catching up on news of friends and family to serious political debate. The opinions written by these young men display the divided state of the nation on the brink of civil war. Of the seven friends, at least three went on to fight in the war, two for the Union and one for the Confederacy.
Dates:
1856 - 1860
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He enlisted with the Confederate Army March 8, 1862 at New Orleans as Private, Company K, Crescent Regiment, Louisiana Volunteers, which became Company 1, Sumter Rifles, Louisiana Infantry.
George H. O'Connor Recordings Collection
Collection — Oversize LP boxes
Identifier: GTM-851014
Scope and Contents
The George H. O'Connor Recordings Collection consists of 74 phonograph records, each of which has at least one recording by George H. O'Connor (1874 - 1946). The reverse side of many of the records have recordings by such artists as Al Jolson, Morton Harvey, Arthur Fields, Marguerite Farrell and Irving Kaufman. Most of the records are copies of those made available to the public (probably made between 1916 and 1917), but there are several special recordings of broadcasts in memory of...
Dates:
1916 - 1917
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1941 he was promoted to President of the Company, and of the Washington and Lawyers Title Insurance Companies.
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:
DuPont de Nemours Powder Company, dated 1912, are also included. Also contained in this collection is a menu and list of attendees from the reunion of former employees of the Laflin & Rand Powder Company, which took place on March 24, 1924 in Wilmington, Delaware, along with two newspaper articles about the event.
Lois Wolfrum Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS443
Scope and Contents
The Lois Wolfrum Papers (2 boxes, 1.0 linear feet) span 1970 to 2004 and contain correspondence between Lois Wolfrum and Rev. Eugene L. Watrin, SJ, a Jesuit priest stationed in Nepal for over fifty years, and between Lois Wolfrum and Penny Williams Yacoub, an artist and illustrator who lived in Lebanon and Tunisia during the 1970s and 1980s. Also included in the collection are printed materials by, or relating to, Fr. Watrin and Nepali life, as well as extensive records of Penny Williams'...
Dates:
1970 - 2004
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1960, she moved to the company's New York City office and then found employment with an international investment firm based in New York.
Earle B. Mayfield Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-810101
Scope and Contents
The Earle B. Mayfield Papers are divided into VI (6) Series. Series I deals with his legal career comprising Boxes 1, 2, and 3. Series II (the largest section of the Papers) covers his political career and comprises Boxes 4 through 13 inclusive. The Third (3) Series concerns itself with family history and autobiographical materials as well as correspondence of a personal, familial nature and covers Boxes 14, 15, and 16 (permission must be obtained for this Series). The Fourth (4) Series...
Dates:
1890 - 1964
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Mayfield was elected president of the Mayfield Wholesale Grocery Company. Although the company was sold in 1956 to the Kimball Company, Earle B.
Joseph Thomas Dailey (L 1925) Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000289-DS
Scope and Contents
Includes: Bachelor of Laws diploma from Georgetown University, June 8, 1925 [damaged]; Bachelor of Arts diploma from National University, June 13, 1928; certificate of admission to the bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, January 11, 1926; certificate of admission to the bar of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, January 19, 1928; and a Presidential Memorial Certificate for Veteran awarded "by a grateful nation in recognition of devoted and selfless...
Dates:
1923-ca. 1962
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Also two panorama photographs: Georgetown Morning Law Junior Class, November 11, 1923 [placed with Law School oversize photographs] and HDQ & HDQ Company 59th Signal BN. Fort Jackson, S.C., 11 - Jan. 1944.
Guy Seely Langstroth Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-170310
Scope and Content note
The Guy Seely Langstroth Collection consists of a photograph album and an autobiographical manuscript journal of a noted American engineer and aviator who worked in Central America in the 1920s. The extensive photograph album covers Langstroth's time in Honduras in 1924 and preserves images of life and culture in that nation during that era. The photographs include scenes of people, places, equipment, and engineering sites. The thorough journal describes Langstroth's experiences in Honduras...
Dates:
Creation: 1924 - 1925
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Langstroth subsequently volunteered to be an airplane pilot for United Fruit Company in the region of Central America.
According to the 1940 U.S.
Stephens, John L. - Chauncey, Henry Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-850621
Content Description
John L. Stephens (1805 - 1852), with Henry Chauncey and William H. Aspinwall, played a crucial role in the planning, financing and promotion of the Panama Railroad, the first commercial link between the Atlantic and Pacific that traversed the Isthmus of Panama. An attorney by profession, Stephens tired of his legal career and, using health as an excuse, began a two-year voyage in 1834 to Europe and the Mediterranean. Beginning in 1837, Stephens published accounts of his travels:...
Dates:
1848 - 1851
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
After his travels, Stephens became a director of the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, and was a supporter of the Hudson River Railroad.
Patrick O'Mahony Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS221
Scope and Contents
Material in this collection centers around the human rights work of Fr. Patrick O'Mahony, a major focus of which was on ethical employment and working condition policies and practices of multi-national companies and subsidiaries in the Third World, including South Africa, South America, and countries in Asia. Fr. O'Mahony undertook a study of the moral implications of investments and the responsibilities of shareholders, particularly with regard to the policies of his own diocese of...
Dates:
1954 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1989
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The series of files concerning the many companies surveyed by Fr. O'Mahony includes correspondence with executives and senior officers of those companies.
William W. Wright Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS178
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of the four folios of General Wright's scrapbook which contains primarily news items relating to the proposed construction of the Panama Canal. Some letters, notes, and sketches by Wright are included, along with printed maps showing the different interoceanic routes that were considered. In addition, the scrapbook includes a letter from John A. Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, and several broadsides in Spanish citing Ferdinand de Lesseps and the canal...
Dates:
1857 - 1883; Majority of material found within 1879 - 1882
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Provenance: The Manuscript Company of Springfield, Virginia.
Rogers Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-890501
Scope and Contents note
The Rogers Family Papers consist of fifteen series, the first being on the Rogers & Clarke families in general, and the remainder focusing on the papers of individuals such as James Webb Rogers I, J. Harris Rogers, James Charles Rogers, Cora Rogers Clarke, Phillips H. Clarke Jr., Mae Harris Clarke and George E. Sullivan. The final series contains objects and oversize materials of varying types.
Extent: 30 linear feet
Number of Boxes: 19, with 11 oversize containers
Dates:
1817 - 1988
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He also has correspondence and pamphlets from many other inventors of the time such as Nikola Tesla, Emile Berliner, and Hubbard Gardiner, and from companies such as American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T), Wanamaker Telephone Company, and others.
Charles W. Umbaugh World War II Letters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-20230602
Content Description
Collection of over 200 letters written by and to Washington, D.C. resident Charles W. Umbaugh, dating from 1941 to 1944. Umbaugh served stateside during World War II, first in an Army hospital and then later in the Army Air Corp. The letters document Umbaugh's experiences in the armed services as well as his family's experience as civilians on the homefront during the second World War.
Dates:
1941 - 1944
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Purchased from Beltrone and Company, 2023.
Elizabeth Trindal Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-121205
Scope and Contents note
Research materials relating to the book "Mary Suratt: An American Tragedy" by Elizabeth Trindal (1996).
Dates:
1861 - 2011
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Scrapbook: George Harvey Cain (C 1942)
Collection
Identifier: GTA-120511
Scope and Contents
Contains clippings and printed material. Most of the contents relate to Georgetown or Washington, D.C., although a little relates to New York. Many of the clippings relate to the ROTC. Included are: pictorial article on Al Blozis; 1942 commencement program; English translation for Latin text on College of Arts and Sciences degree; campus map, 1937; Information and Rules, 1937-1938; Capital Transit Company pass, October 2-8, 1938; poster, [Jim] "Dwyer for [Class] President";...
Dates:
1937-1942
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Included are: pictorial article on Al Blozis; 1942 commencement program; English translation for Latin text on College of Arts and Sciences degree; campus map, 1937; Information and Rules, 1937-1938; Capital Transit Company pass, October 2-8, 1938; poster, [Jim] "Dwyer for [Class] President"; completed and scored "Auto Highway and Safety Test Brief Form"; Memorial Card for James J.
Raposo, Joe, Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: GTM-141028
Content Description
Autograph music manuscripts for songs. Music by Raposo, lyrics by Eric Bentley. Titles include: Song of Scum; Little Bill; Galy Gay’s Song; The Song of God; Song of the Ganges; Widow Begbick’s Man’s Man; The Recruiting Song; Barrel Song.
Dates:
1964
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He also wrote music for television shows such as “The Electric Company”, “Shining Time Station”; and theme songs for the sitcoms “Three's Company” and The Ropers”.
George H. O'Connor Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-850501
Scope and Contents note
The George H. O'Connor Papers contain correspondence, photographs, programs, songs, music and cartoons, accumulated by O'Connor throughout his life. The correspondence includes letters from William H. Taft, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, J. Edgar Hoover, Cordell Hull, and Edward Stettinius. The most interesting letters are two written by O'Connor himself to his wife Blanche, while O'Connor was staying at Warm Springs with President Roosevelt.Perhaps the most...
Dates:
1890 - 1979
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1941 he was promoted to President of the Company, and of the Washington and Lawyers Title Insurance Companies.