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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:
The collection consists of materials regarding Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the associations that formed to continue his legacy.
Postcard Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000339
Scope and Contents
Includes black-and-white and color postcards, most unsent. Box 1 consists of images of campus and building exteriors and interiors.Some sets are present. Included are: Exterior:
Aerial Shots (14);
Lateral View from Potomac (16);
Observatory Hill (3);
School of Nursing (St. Mary's) (1);
Medical Dental Building (1);
Old Medical School (10);
Front Gates (Old-5/First Remodel-5/New-3);
Georgetown University Hospital (New-3, Old-2);
Old North (6);
Dahlgren Chapel...
Dates:
ca. 1909-1960
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Peter’s Catholic Church;
Wheeling-Mount de Chantal Academy.
Wyoming: Wheatland-City Hall; Wheatland-Gilcrest Avenue.
Wyoming: Wheatland-City Hall; Wheatland-Gilcrest Avenue.
Mimika Farish Frith Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-19470101
Content Description
Collection of correspondence, journals, documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings concerning the family of Mimika Farish Frith. Included is correspondence (9 letters, 1779-1781) from Baron von Steuben to his aide-de-campe Pierre Etienne Du Ponceau and two letters (1781) from Du Ponceau to von Steuben. Also included is a bound journal kept by Du Ponceau from 1794-1820 which served as a family register, diary and account book. Also included is correspondence and documents from the...
Dates:
1779 - 1932; Majority of material found within 1794-1800s
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Included is correspondence (9 letters, 1779-1781) from Baron von Steuben to his aide-de-campe Pierre Etienne Du Ponceau and two letters (1781) from Du Ponceau to von Steuben.
B. W. Butler Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: GTM-180519
Scope and Contents
The B.W. Butler Papers, in the University Archives prior to 1970, consist of a single item, the autobiography of George Bent, born in 1843 to a Cheyenne mother, Owl Woman, and a St. Louis fur-trader William Bent. While an account of Bent's remarkable life was eventually produced by one of the editors of this work, it remained unpublished for nearly 50 years (Life of George Bent: Written from his Letters. George E. Hyde, editor. University of Oklahoma Press, 1968) while this manuscript was...
Dates:
1905 - 1925
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The fight around the barracks. Little Wolf's party surrenders. New conditions. The Ghost Dance trouble.
Michel Chevalier papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS108
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The material in this collection reflects the consultation Michel Chevalier was requesting from a Minister, probably in Paris or a nearby capital, as to how he should approach Chamorro. This Minister was probably a Central American diplomat in Europe, possibly Peralta. The letter which Chevalier eventually sent to Chamorro is also in the collection. It seems clear that Chevalier's claims were so weak by the time of this correspondence that he would not receive his concession, which was...
Dates:
1863-1876
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
In 1840 he was named 'Conseiller d'Etat' and Professeur of Political Economics at the College de France. After losing both posts in the revolution of 1848, he was reinstated by the Prince-President Louis-Napoleon in 1852.
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.
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.
John L. Brown Papers 3
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS253
Scope and Contents
The John L. Brown Papers 3, consists of correspondence with 20th century artists, scholars, and writers. Notables include artists Huseyin Halit, Loren McIver and her husband, poet Lloyd Frankenberg, Lilian Mckendrick, Irene Rice Pereira and Antoinette Schulte; art critic and historian Roger Avermaete; historian Henry Steele Commager; and writers Jacqueline Bernard, Faith Berry, Elizabeth Borton de Trevino, Lewis Galantiere, Elsa Gress, poet James Laughlin, Boris Schreiber, Pierre Seghers,...
Dates:
1946 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1986
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Brown include Decorated Commander, Chevaliers du Tastevin (Burgundy, France), 1953; Grand Prix de la Critique from Syndicat des Critiques, 1954, for “Panorama de la Littérature Contemporaine aux Etats Unis”; and Le Grand Ordre des Coteaux (Champagne), 1973.
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."
H. L. Mencken - Ernest A. and Madeleine E. Boyd Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS174
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Mencken-Boyd Collection consists of 19 letters from H.L. Mencken to Ernest A. and Madeleine E. Boyd. The letters are arranged in 19 folders and contained in 1 box.
Dates:
1923 - 1951
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Madeleine Boyd was a well known literary agent, best known for placing "Look Homeward Angel" and "Of Time and the River" for Thomas Wolfe. Mrs. Boyd, the wife of Ernest Boyd, was born Madeleine Elise Reynier in France in 1886.
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.
Goigs Devotional Broadsides Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-140708
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of goigs (also known as gosos or gozos) and other religious devotional printed pieces from the Catalan region of Spain, dating from 1692 to 1982. Many of the goigs 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: 1692 - 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.
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.
Old Archives: Paintings in Georgetown Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000655
Scope and Contents
Old Archives numbers: 241-1, 241-2, 241-3, 241-4, 241-5, 241-6, 241-7. 259-1, 259-2, 259-3, 259-4, 259-5, 296A-1, 296A-2, 296A-3, 296A-4, 296A-5, 296A-6, 296A-7. Contains correspondence, clippings and photographs. Includes information about: "Calling of St. Matthew" by Luca Giordano (241-1); Van Dyke's "The Jesuit" (241-2); paintings of Mr. and Mrs. William Brent (241-3); mosaics, portraits of Cardinals, portrait of Elizabeth Dahlgren, portrait of William Duggan by James B. Murrin, "Descent...
Dates:
1889-1967
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Francis Xavier and others (296A-2);and Decatur/Madonna of Fr. De Smet/Loughborough Portrait/Stella Carpenter (296A-3).
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).
John L. Brown Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS205
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The John L. Brown Papers 2, consists of 271 folders of alphabetically arranged correspondence with prominent twentieth-century graphic and performing artists, composers, publishers and writers including Josephine Baker, George Braziller, John Cage, Albert Camus, Marc Chagall, Carlos Chavez, Henry Steele Commager, George Dillon, John Dos Passos, Angna Enters, Paul Flamand, Gaston Gallimard, Julien Green, Alfred and Blanche Knopf, Claude Levi-Strauss, Jose Limon, Andre Malraux, Jacques...
Dates:
1940 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Brown include Decorated Commander, Chevaliers du Tastevin (Burgundy, France), 1953; Grand Prix de la Critique from Syndicat des Critiques, 1954, for “Panorama de la Littérature Contemporaine aux Etats Unis”; and Le Grand Ordre des Coteaux (Champagne), 1973.
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.