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Miguel Pro Execution Scrapbook
Collection — Box GTM Shared Box 5 (Letter): [Barcode: 39020030726437], Folder: 13
Identifier: GTM-20221201
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook documenting the execution of Fr. Miguel Pro Juarez and two other men in Mexico on November 23, 1927, for an alleged attempt on the life of former Mexican President Álvaro Obregón. It includes photographs of the execution and of Pro's funeral. The scrapbook contains notes on the execution and an explanation of the origin of the scrapbook by Mary D. Kenna.The scrapbook was sent to Fr. Nevils, "Archivist of Georgetown University," by Mary D. Kenna of New York City in1942...
Dates:
1927, 1942
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
It was formerly part of the William Coleman Nevils, S.J. Papers (GTA-GAMMS012)
It was originally sent to Fr.
It was originally sent to Fr.
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:
In addition, numerous personal letters of Richard's brother William Crawford provide insight into the family's history.
Tradition and Prospect: The Inauguration of the Very Reverend Hunter Guthrie, S.J. as Thirty-Fifth President of Georgetown University, April 30 and May 1, 1949. The Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C, 1949
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000369
Scope and Contents
Section I. Symposium: Georgetown, The Great Tradition, and the Future. 1. The Western Cultural Tradition, William Aylott Orton. 2. Jesuit Education and the Culture of the West, W. Edmund FitzGerald, S.J. 3. Georgetown and the American Tradition, Francis X. Talbot, S.J. 4. Man and Science, High Scott Taylor. 5. Man and Law, Ben W. Palmer. 5. Man and Government, Cecil Herbert Driver.Section II. A Program for World Peace, James H. Doolittle (The two questions whose correct...
Dates:
1949
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
The Western Cultural Tradition, William Aylott Orton. 2. Jesuit Education and the Culture of the West, W.
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:
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.
Grant Richards Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-781016
Scope and Contents
The Grant Richards Papers consist of correspondence, (Boxes 1 to 3), manuscripts (Box 4 and throughout individual correspondence files), printed materials (Box 5), photos and clippings (Box 5 and 6), all relating to Richards and to the various authors he published. Of note is correspondence between Lady Gregory and himself regarding proposed biographies of Sir Hugh Lane, who died on the "Lusitania." The collection would be of interest in the study of any of the writers represented to the...
Dates:
1889 - 1962
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He also possessed a fine appreciation for art and issued early portfolios of Sir William Rothenstein and C.R.W. Nevinson as well as employing such artists as Phil May, William Hyde, and Maurice Greiffenhagen.
Peter J. Sullivan Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS437
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Peter J. Sullivan Papers document the life and times of Peter J. Sullivan (1821-1883), who was a Union officer in the American Civil War and the U.S. Minister to Colombia from 1867 to 1869. While there are a limited number of documents concerning his Civil War career, the majority of the papers describe his work as U.S. Minister to Colombia. The papers include a large run of letters to and from U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward; U.S. Consul in Cartagena, Colombia Augustus S....
Dates:
1843 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1869
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Sullivan correspondence to William H. Seward.
Series 7 - Peter J. Sullivan correspondence to Thomas K.
Violet Oakley Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-830515
Scope and Contents
Letters; manuscripts; and printed ephemera, including exhibition catalogs pertaining to American artist and muralist Violet Oakley (1874-1961). Includes letters to Edith Emerson (1888-1981), American artist and Oakley's life-long partner. Correspondents include other artists: Maxwell Armfield and Charles Hopkinson, as well as architect William Penn Cresson. Collection includes 7 glass plate negatives (Box 2) and 8 black and white photographs (Folder 1:10) of Oakley's drawings of ...
Dates:
1900 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1959
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Oakley's political beliefs were shaped by William Penn (1644-1718) whose ideals she represented in her murals at the Pennsylvania State Capitol and in her book “The Holy Experiment: A Message to the World from Pennsylvania” (1922).
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
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.
Lawrence Gilman Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS232
Scope and Contents
Comprising seven boxes, eleven linear feet of material, the Lawrence Gilman Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed matter relating to the life and career of Lawrence Gilman (1878-1939). The grandnephew of Johns Hopkins' University's first president Daniel Coit Gilman, Lawrence Gilman was a noted music critic for the "New York Herald-Tribune," annotator of orchestral programs for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and radio...
Dates:
1807 - 1948; Majority of material found within 1901 - 1937
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
(Gilman) Children of William and Katharine (Perkins) Gilman: Mabel (1861-64); Theodora (b. 1865, d. 1865); Elizabeth Coit (1866-79); George Houghton(?)
Jenkins Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS462
Scope and Contents
The Jenkins Family Papers contain a small number of historical documents pertaining to the prominent Jenkins family of Baltimore. In addition to providing information about the history of that particular family, this collection has a connection to the history of Georgetown College as three of the letters were sent to Georgetown College student Thomas Robert Jenkins in 1838 and 1839. Those letters make references to several leading Georgetown faculty and hint at what the college was like...
Dates:
1829 - 1870
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
O'Shea donated one of the letters from Louis William Jenkins to Thomas Robert Jenkins on behalf of Dr.
University Reform: U.S.A., 1970 - A Symposium on the occasion of the inauguration of Robert J. Henle, S.J. as 45th President of Georgetown University, October 7, 1969. Georgetown University Press
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: GTA-000370
Scope and Contents
Panelists: Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., President, University of Notre Dame, "Reform and the Future of the American Catholic University"; Dr, Allan M. Carter, Chancellor, New York Univesrity, "Redefining the Mission of the American University"; Dr, Harold Enarson, President, Cleveland State University, "Reform of University Governments"; The Honorable Edith Green, U.S. House of Representatives, "Federal University Policies for the 1970s"; and Rev. R.J. Henle, S.J., President, Georgetown...
Dates:
1969
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
Morgan, Vice President for Business; Greetings from faculty by Valerie Earle, Professor of Government and President of the University Senate; Greetings from Consortium of Universities of Metropolitan Washington by President George H. Williams of American University; Transmittal of of Charter, Great Seal, and University Mace by Chairman of the Board of Directors Edwin A, Quain, S.J.; and Closing Benediction by John B.
Katharine Tynan Manuscript of "Fraulein"
Collection
Identifier: GTM-920401
Scope and Contents
A bound autograph manuscript of Irish author Katharine Tynan's complete and unpublished novel "Fraulein" (267 pages).
Dates:
1915
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Yeats and A. E. (George William Russell), and as a minor poet of nature and devotional lyrics.
Terry L. Meyers research files on Algernon Charles Swinburne
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030751534], Folder: 1-15
Identifier: GTM-140325
Content Description
Contains Meyers' research files re Algernon Charles Swinburne. Includes Meyers' research correspondence, dated 1980-1994.
15 folders arranged alphabetically by name. Includes photocopies of originals with transcriptions of letters by Hall Caine, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, Alice Haley, Edward Verrall Lucas, Eden Philpotts, Luigi Siciliani, Isabel Swinburne, Arthur Symons, John Hall Wheelock, and Thomas Wright.
Dates:
1902 - 1994
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Meyers is Chancellor Professor of English Emeritus at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va. He is author of "The Uncollected Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne" (2004); and has given talks on Swinburne at Georgetown University Library in 1980 and 2009, the latter at the exhibition opening of "A Swinburne Gallimaufry: selections from the John S.
F. Don Nidiffer collection of Washington, D.C. legal documents
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS96
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Nidiffer Collection consists of 741 documents, about 600 of which are deeds, all concerning transactions in Washington City and County and Georgetown, all in the District of Columbia between 1817 and 1886. The documents are arranged chronologically one to a folder in 8 boxes.* * * * * * *The Nidiffer Collection contains an interesting documentary account of personal and family business transactions in the District of Columbia in the nineteenth century. About 600...
Dates:
1817 - 1886
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Hall, the Marbury family, William Redin, Ferdinand Risque, Levi Sheriff, William B.
Edwin Emerson Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-761103
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and manuscripts (including an autobiography) of Edwin Emerson, journalist and miscellaneous writer, touching on his experiences in the Spanish-American, Russo-Japanese, and First World Wars. Includes photographic materials.
Dates:
1898-1952
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Potomac Company Payroll Log
Collection
Identifier: GTM-0058
Scope and Contents
A single payroll log of the Potomac Company ("Potowmack Company"), a company formed to improve the navigation system for the Potomac River, for canal construction workers employed at Little Falls on the Potomac River. Written in tabular format, the document lists 90 individual workers with their occupations, number of days worked, monthly wage rates, rations deducted from wages, and the authorization of the receipt of payment signified by the workers' signatures or mark and the signature of...
Dates:
1793 October 26 - 1794 January 23
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Other repositories hold payroll logs as well, including the Library of Congress, National Park Service Archives, and the Swem Library at the College of William and Mary.
Byington Family Papers 2
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS298
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Byington Family Papers: Part 2 contain postcards, letters, and printed material documenting the life and times of A. Homer Byington and other members of the Byington family. Of interest are postcards to and from A. Homer Byington from Naples, where he served as U.S. consul at the turn of the twentieth century. The postcards describe life in Naples, volcanic activity there, and even an occasion when the King off Italy took of his hat out of respect for an American flag flying over...
Dates:
1822 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1910
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He was survived by three sons: William Homer, George Richmond, and Stuart Woodford.
Carroll Quigley - John F. Parr Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS334
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Carroll Quigley - John F. Parr Collection consists chiefly of manuscript chapters from a work Quigley called "Twentieth Century Europe" in manuscript form but later published as "Tragedy and Hope." The manuscript includes some editing and ample footnotes. The collection also contains one letter from Donald Harrison Smith concerning the Quigley manuscript. The materials date to circa 1965. Quigley published "Tragedy and Hope" in 1966. Although the chapters are numbered, not every chapter...
Dates:
1965 - 1977; Majority of material found in 1965 - 1965
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Parr was born in Lafayette, Indiana, on November 8, 1914, the son of William Clarence Parr and Mary Louise (de Marcus) Parr.
Georgetown University Library: Miniatures Commemorating the Tercentenary of its Founding [1640-1940]
Collection
Identifier: GTA-000373
Scope and Contents
"Miniatures" was a limited edition publication of two hundred numbered copies. This collection includes copies numbered 2, 4, 29, and 144. The cover bears embossed seals of Georgetown University and the Riggs Family. Included are a foreword by Charles J. Foley, S.J., and sections on: "Manuscripts in the Riggs Memorial Library"; "Incunabula in the Riggs Memorial Library"; "The Riggs Memorial Library and Early Americana"; and "The Library and Its Work Today."The selection of 1640...
Dates:
1940
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives