The collection contains correspondence and indenture documents relating to the affairs of Colonel John Fitzgerald that relate to local affairs in northern Virginia in the 1790s.
The material in this collection relates to Julius P. Garesche, a Georgetown University alumnus and chief of staff to William S. Rosecrans, a general during the Civil War. It includes manuscripts by Julius Garesche; correspondence about his death by fellow officers, including General Rosecrans; printed information about Garesche and some members of his family; and photographs of Garesche and the family tomb at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Washington, DC.
This collection contains an oral history interview conducted by John P. Williams with Edward P. O'Connell, SJ. In the three-hour interview, Fr. O'Connell took Williams on a tour of southern Maryland and spoke on the original Jesuit missions there and the foundations of US Catholicism.
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.
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.
