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Waldorf Astor journal
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS256
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
Written in 1901 during his days as a student at New College, Oxford, the Journal of Waldorf Astor provides a brief, but interesting glimpse into the life of a young man who was born into immense wealth and would later devote himself to public service. This journal records Astor's social activities and personal interests, particularly his love of horses, which comes as no surprise given that he eventually built up one of the best known studs in Great Britain. Aside from his numerous entries...
Dates:
1901-1901; Majority of material found in 1901 - 1901
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The senior Astor gave as his wedding present his Thames-side country house, Cliveden, Taplow. The young Astors also purchased a London house at 4 St James's Square and, eventually, another on Plymouth Hoe.
Breedin family papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-800422
Scope and contents note
The Breedin Family Papers, which include letters, manuscripts, and photographs, are comprised mainly of correspondence between various members of the Breedin and Singleton families from the 1850s to the 1870s. The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to members of the family of Enoch C. Breedin (1797-1856) and Lucy Payne Singleton (1808-1860) of Winchester, Virginia. Lucy Singleton Breedin was the daughter of General James Singleton and Judith Throckmorton Ball (1776-1852) and the sister...
Dates:
1811-1976
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Because of economic hardships, both young women were required to locate teaching positions in order to support themselves: "I wish to prepare Lucy for a situation where enjoying the respect of her Employers she would be qualified for independence" (Mme R.A.
Joseph M. Lauinger Military Awards and Decorations
Collection
Identifier: GTA-19970921
Content Description
This collection contains U.S. Army medals, medal citations, medal certificates, and marksmanship qualification badges awarded to Joseph M. Lauinger (C'1967) and related materials, 1969-1970. The medals are on permanent display in the lobby of Georgetown University's Joseph Mark Lauinger Memorial Library.
Dates:
1969-1970
Found in:
Georgetown University Archives
Found in Notes:
He also participated in the Spanish Club, Young Republicans, intramural basketball, the Senior Class Council and the Student Athletic Committee.
Franklin B. Sanborn papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS229
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This is a collection of some 250 letters written to Franklin B. Sanborn from friends and relatives during his years as a student first at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and then at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts (circa 1852-55). Primarily containing domestic and social news about other family members and mutual friends, the letters include references to contemporary election politics of the 1850s with mention of numerous statesmen including John Bell, James...
Dates:
1850-1902; Majority of material found within 1850-1856
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Finally, the correspondence affords insight into the lives of young, educated men and women of nineteenth-century New England.
Alexander McWilliams Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-830808
Content Description
Materials relating to the Broad Neck tract located at St . Clement's Manor, St. Mary's County. Includes boundary disputes, indentures, depositions. The property was originally granted to Thomas Gerard, whose daughter married the noted rebel leader of 1689, Kenelm Cheseldyne or Cheseldine [sp. var.]. The collection also includes a list of deaths in St . Mary's County from 1806-1844 as well as miscellaneous material. Copies of this collection are available at the Manuscripts Division of the...
Dates:
1678 - 1844
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
., born November 16, 1811, died October 8, 1827 in Rochester, NY;
- Adelaide Elizabeth, born September 2, 1813, died after 1852. Married Noble Young, May 5, 1836;
- Jane, born April 21, 1815.
Joseph G. E. Hopkins papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS171
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Joseph G. E. Hopkins Papers consist primarily of correspondence, manuscripts, and pamphlets. The papers comprise 3.25 linear feet of material arranged in 154 folders in 3 boxes (two 1.5 foot boxes and one .25 foot box). The correspondence in the collection is between Hopkins and various colleagues in the fields of publishing and American history and includes signed pamphlets by colleagues and manuscripts by Hopkins. Among the correspondents and pamphlet authors are Wayne Andrews, Cynthia...
Dates:
1939-1987; Majority of material found within 1957-1980
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Hopkins wrote a number of historical novels on the American Colonial period, many of which were aimed at young audiences. Hopkins' works include Colonial Governor (1957); Blackrobe Peacemaker (1958); Patriot's Progress (1961); Retreat and Recall (1966); and The Price of Liberty (1976).
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:
The opinions written by these young men display the divided state of the nation on the brink of civil war.
Joseph Smolinski Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS141
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Colonel Joseph Smolinski Papers consist of correspondence, ephemera and an autograph collection arranged in 69 folders in one box. He donated many items to Georgetown University at the turn of the century including these papers, a collection of books and two marble tables. The Papers consist of some correspondence to Colonel Smolinski, a scrapbook of clippings and ephemera and an autograph collection. A great majority of the correspondence is in response to Smolinski's requests for...
Dates:
1818 - 1900; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1890
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Autographs in the Signatures Series include Brigham Young, Chester B. Arthur, Rutherford B. Hayes, Hannibal Hamilton, Horace Greeley and Lucretia Mott.
Lawrence H. Suid Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-770325
Scope and Contents
The collection documents cooperation between U.S. military officials and the film industry in the 20th century. It consists of oral history interviews (recordings and transcripts) conducted by Lawrence Suid with screenwriters, producers, directors, actors, military technical advisors, public relations officers, and others, as well as subject files on films that were studied by Suid in the preparation of his groundbreaking study "Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image",...
Dates:
1900 - 2010
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The Brigham Young University Library Special Collections holds a collection of Suid's papers and interviews with advisors to films about the Vietnamese Conflict.
Hilaire Belloc - Allison Family collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS203
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
This collection contains the correspondence between Hilaire Belloc and the James Murray Allison family for the time period 1918-1941. Much of the correspondence in this collection has to do with the column Belloc contributed to "Land and Water," a periodical founded by James Murray Allison to cover aspects of the war efforts during WWI.
Dates:
1918-1941
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Belloc would have been too young to remember this episode, but accounts of it would have fuelled his lifelong prejudice against all things German.
James Percy Brown Journal
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS258
Scope and Contents
The journal of James Percy Brown documents the life of a wealthy young American living in Paris from 1834-1835 during the reign of Louis Philippe.
Dates:
1834-1835
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The journal of James Percy Brown documents the life of a wealthy young American living in Paris from 1834-1835 during the reign of Louis Philippe.
John Mullan Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS276
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The John Mullan Papers contain documents generated and collected by John Mullan (1830-1909), pioneer, military engineer, and attorney, best known for constructing the Mullan Road in the American West. This collection primarily covers his later years as a Washington, D.C. attorney representing California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington Territory in claims cases against the federal government. Correspondence with high-ranking officials in those states and with state and federal legislators is...
Dates:
1826 - 1966; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1909
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He was the oldest of ten children. At the young age of three, Mullan's family moved to Annapolis, Maryland, where, despite his family's poverty, he earned an A.B. from St.
Bonte and Gustavo Duran Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS291
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Bonte and Gustavo Duran Papers consist of 28 letters, mostly sent from Bonte Duran, sister of Catherine Walston, to her husband Gustavo Duran, with frequent mentions of novelist Graham Greene. Several letters were written by Greene, and a few by Catherine Walston. The letters discuss the affair between Greene and Walston, travel, and various acquaintances. The Bonte and Gustavo Duran Papers are contained in one archival box (0.25 linear feet).
Dates:
1950 - 1991; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1953
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
He composed and conducted a ballet at the young age of 21. He was a general during the Spanish Civil War, and he escaped to England at the close of the conflict.
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:
Connecticut:
Keyser Island;
New Haven-Osborn Hall;
New Haven-Yale University;
South Norwalk-The Xavier;
South Norwalk-The Gonzaga;
South Norwalk-The Chapel.
Illinois: Danville-Young Women’s Christian Association; Danville-St.
Illinois: Danville-Young Women’s Christian Association; Danville-St.
Philip Barry Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS128
Scope and Contents
The Philip Barry Papers consist of correspondence from friends and associates to Philip and Ellen Barry. Some well known individuals include, Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet; Katherine Bregy (Catholic author); William C. Bullitt (US ambassador); writers Henry W. Clune, Edsel Ford, Brendan Gill, Morris Hadley, John O'Hara, Joseph Verner Reed, Robert Sherwood; actresses Lillian Gish and Katherine Hepburn; producers/directors Joseph Mankiewicz and Robert Sinclair.
The collection...
Dates:
1921 - 1984
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Lorenzo Semple was a generous man, and was to present the young couple twice with houses, a small cottage in Mt.
Hamlin Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS452
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The collection contains correspondence and documents relating to the Hamlin family of Waterford, Maine. Spanning a period of over one hundred years, the correspondence provides insight into the daily life of a middle-class, nineteenth-century family. Much of the correspondence focuses on the professional and personal relationships of the children of Hannibal and Susan Hamlin: Susan, Cyrus, Hannibal and Rebecca. In addition to local and national politics, other topics of the...
Dates:
1801 - 1942; Majority of material found within 1844 - 1915
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The family's future would be thrown into great uncertainty, however, after the death of Hannibal Hamlin in 1811, leaving his wife a widow with four young children and two farms to manage. Relying on the support of friends and neighbors, Susan Hamilin was able to hold on to the land.
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:
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.
The collection also includes Carrel's laboratory notebooks and other experimental records together with his literary writings and general correspondence.
Lester Adams papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-920101
Collection-level scope and contents note
The Lester Adams Papers primarily consist of the official papers and ephemera of Captain Lester Adams, who was part of the U.S. Medical Corps during World War I stationed in the Panama Canal Zone. The papers are arranged in 19 folders and housed in 1 box.The Lester Adams Papers cover Adams' brief service in the Medical Reserve Corps, mainly consisting of military orders, ephemera, and a few photographs. Among Adams' official correspondence are a telegram from Surgeon General...
Dates:
1916-1919; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1919
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
General Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, from August 1918 to Septemeber 1919. His young wife of a year and a half, Margaret M. Prentiss, died in March of 1919, possibly of tuberculosis.
William R. Downs Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-780127
Scope and Contents
The papers of William R. Downs consist of correspondence, broadcast scripts, clippings, memorabilia, a scrapbook, films, records, photographs, and network election handbooks, pertaining to his career in journalism and broadcast journalism, and to his school years. They are arranged chronologically.Of special interest to the researcher are the following:
-Downs' early correspondence with his family. These letters dating from 1940-1945 are very revealing of his personality and...
Dates:
1929-1977
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Since the scripts span four decades, they document the development of Bill Downs from the eager young reporter to Bill Downs, the veteran newsman.
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:
Ernest Augustus Boyd was born in Dublin, Ireland on June 28, 1887, the son of James Robert Boyd and Rosa Kempston Boyd. Privately educated, young Boyd passed the competitive examinations for the British Consular Service.