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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."
James P. J. Murphy Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS118
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The James P. J. Murphy Papers primarily consist of correspondence and signed photographs of well-known artists, musicians, authors and stage figures of the 1930's and 1940's. The papers are arranged in 845 folders in 9 boxes. James P. J. Murphy had a good eye for art and chose materials wisely, and at a meager cost, he amassed an enormous autograph collection. He began in the early 1930's, mainly trying to get signed photographs of musicians and stage personalities, including...
Dates:
1930 - 1965
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Photographs from this period include Prentiss Taylor (by Carl Van Vechten), George M. Cohan, Milton Avery, Robert Casadesus, Walter Gropius, Robert Frost, Flora Robson, Leopold Stokowski, and Eugene Ormandy.
Robert Woods Bliss collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-761028
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlets, printed documents, transcripts, maps, and newspaper clippings assembled by Robert Woods Bliss. The material pertains chiefly to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, with a number of the documents dealing specifically with Russia. Bliss (1875-1962), career diplomat, was stationed at the American embassy in Paris as secretary and counselor from 1912-1920.
Note: Click on "External Documents" below for a link to the finding aid for the collection.
Dates:
1914-1921
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Campus Ministry
Collection
Identifier: GTA-130708
American Song Sheet collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS240
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The American Song Sheet Collection comprises a relatively cohesive group of 234 song sheets published in the United States (and principally in New York, by de Marsan) in the 1850's and during the early years of the Civil War. There are songs of African American interest, a few relating to events in the Civil War, and at least one exploiting a German accented singer. But of principal note are the fairly large number of songs dealing with the immigrant Irish or their native land, from "The...
Dates:
1850-1865; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1865
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The American Song Sheet Collection comprises a relatively cohesive group of 234 song sheets published in the United States (and principally in New York, by de Marsan) in the 1850's and during the early years of the Civil War.
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.
Gozos Devotional Broadsides Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-140708
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of gozos (also known as gosos or goigs) and other religious devotional printed pieces from the Catalan region of Spain, dating from 1776 to 1982. Many of the gozos 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: 1776 - 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.
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.
Seumas MacManus Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-130118
Scope and Contents Note
The Seumas MacManus Family Collection contains letters and manuscripts by and about Seumas MacManus (1869-1960), a prominent Irish author of folktales who lectured extensively throughout the United States and published widely. These materials document fascinating aspects of MacManus' writing career, and they provide primary source materials about his family.The collection includes a small number of letters from notables to Seumas MacManus, including Theodore Dreiser, Maud Gonne,...
Dates:
1855 - 2005; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1960
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
She edited the magazine "The Shan Van Vocht" from 1896 to 1899. Her poetry and prose were published widely in various Irish periodicals.
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:
Because of the popularity of these travelogues, Stephens gained the title "the American Traveler."
In 1839 President van Buren sent stephens on a confidential diplomatic mission to Central America, during which he explored extensively the Mayan ruins.
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.
John F. Parr - D. Harrison Smith collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS103
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The Parr-Smith Collection consists primarily of correspondence, clippings, medals and photographs collected by D. Harrison Smith and John F. Parr, most relating to their friendship with Edmund S. Walsh, S.J. and their connections with Georgetown University. The collection consists of 1 linear foot of material arranged in 24 folders in 2 boxes. The Smith-Parr Archives contain correspondence relating to John F. Parr's tenure at Georgetown University. Manuscripts by Parr and Smith are also in...
Dates:
1940-1981
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Harrison Smith then moved to the Villa de la Grangette in Lens-Lestang, France. Donald Harrison Smith was also born in 1917 and began attending Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 1935 with John F.
Julius P. Garesche papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS71
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1836 - 1908; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1870
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul which Julius had helped found, met with the Georgetown College Philodemic Society and resolved, in January 1863 to erect a monument over his tomb at Mt.
Ernest A. Keller Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-860903
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the career of Ernest A. Keller as a journalist, editor, and as a U.S. government official working for the United States Information Agency in the mid-20th century.Materials related to the Alliance for Progress Cartoon Book Program in Latin America have been digitized and are available online via DigitalGeorgetown....
Dates:
1939 - 1967
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Subjects:
La Marcha de la Alianza para el Progreso
Dave Barbor Collection on Alfred Hitchcock
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39020030756137]
Identifier: GTM-0040
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of materials related to Alfred Hitchcock that were collected by Dave Barbor. It includes the following:One letter written by Alfred Hitchcock to his assistant director, Herbert Coleman (1955). One letter written by Francois Truffaut to Alfred Hitchcock (circa 1966).Six letters from Patricia Hitchcock to Peter Halliday regarding "Strangers on a Train" and other matters, 1950-1956, 1983.Eight photographs, including three...
Dates:
1949 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1983
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
J’avais vécu plus de quatre ans avec et comme il s’agit de vos propos et de vos Idées sur le cinéma, je peux dire qu’il s’agit la, pour moi, du meilleur livre de cinéma avec les écrits d’Eisenstein.”
David Rankin Barbee Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS145
Collection-level Scope and Content Note
The bulk of the Barbee Papers concerns his research, accomplished primarily between the years 1928-1958. The Papers are organized according to provenance into seven series, out-lining his historical interests. The series are: I. Abraham Lincoln; II. Death of Lincoln; III. Lincoln and Booth; IV. John Wilkes Booth; V. Conspirators; VI. Rose O'Neil Greenhow; and VII. American History. Because the collection is largely subject-oriented, due to the inter-relatedness of topics the same subject...
Dates:
1886 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1956
Found in:
Georgetown University Manuscripts
Found in Notes:
Basler, Otto Eisenschiml, Lyon G. Tyler, Philip Van Doren Stern, Henry Steele Commager, Emmanuel Hetz, Archibald Henderson, and Albert J.