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R. Emmett Curran Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-180305
Scope and Contents The papers of R. Emmett Curran consist of materials related to his work as a historian and author, including publications such as A History of Georgetown University and John Dooley's Civil War.Includes unpublished manuscripts and drafts on the history of Catholics in America, the Civil War, and 19th century Baltimore, as well as additional works on Georgetown University history. From the donor: "There are six boxes containing various drafts of the Georgetown history, as well as...
Dates: 1960s-2010s
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / R. Emmett Curran Papers

Carolyn Smith Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: GTM-140106
Content Description Articles, monographs and printed source material relating to history of Catholic families in Maryland, and Southern American history including American Civil War.Folder list1. Browning, Sister Mary Carmel, OSU. Think Big: A partial biography of Reverend Tong, SJ. (1970). Inscribed by the author to Smith. 2. Smith, Lancaster. “Impeaching a ‘National Expert’ in a Catastrophic Collision Case.” For the Defense, vol. 23, no. 6, June 1981. 3. St. Ferdinand’s...
Dates: 1789 - 1981
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Carolyn Smith Collection

Charles Ewing - William T. Sherman Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-000008
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, diaries, documents, ledgers, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed material concerning the Ewing and Sherman families. Included are 10 ALS's (l859-91) from William T. Sherman to his daughter Minnie Sherman Fitch and grand-daughter, Eleanor Sherman Fitch; AMs, "Speech at West Point" (1887), written and delivered by Sherman; material from General Charles Ewing, including leaves from a letter book (1880s), diary (1862, 1864), and photostat...
Dates: 1850 - 1933
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Charles Ewing - William T. Sherman Family papers

William O. Dundas collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-710820
Dates: 1839-1920
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / William O. Dundas collection

Daniel S. Curtis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-131013
Scope and Contents Note The Daniel S. Curtis Papers consist of documents relating to Curtis' service as a Union soldier in the American Civil War. A few letters date to his service with the 28th Wisconsin Volunteers. Several original letters from Lafayette C. Baker, a specialist in military intelligence and commander of the 1st District of Columbia Cavalry, to Curtis are retained. Those particular letters concern Curtis' recruiting for Baker's unit, especially in the state of Maine, and orders sent to Curtis. ...
Dates: 1862 - 1890
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Daniel S. Curtis Papers

Ord Family Papers 2

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS267
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Ord Family Papers: Part 2 provide a wealth of documentary material on members of the distinguished Ord family, especially Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883) and Edward Otho Cresap Ord II (1858-1923). This collection fills in details about the career of American Civil War notable Edward Otho Cresap Ord and includes his letters from California in 1848 touching on the Mexican War and the gold rush; his correspondence to his brother Doctor James Lycurgus Ord between 1848 and 1873; some...
Dates: 1848 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1848 - 1923
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Ord Family Papers 2

Isaiah Garrett, Jr. Letters

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-141219
Collection-level Scope and Contents note The Isaiah Garrett, Jr. Letters is comprised of 41 autograph letters written by Isaiah Garrett Jr. between February 19th, 1859 and December 14th, 1865. Twenty-five of the letters are addressed to his older brother, Frank, fifteen are addressed to his parents, and one is addressed to his sister, Sarah. Thirty-seven of the forty-one letters were written while Garrett was a student at Georgetown University on the eve of the American Civil War, one was written in Baton Rogue, LA in 1859, two...
Dates: 1859 - 1865
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Isaiah Garrett, Jr. Letters

Ord Family Papers 3

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS277
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Ord Family Papers: Part 3 provide more biographical details about several key members of the prominent Ord family. This collection includes sixteen letters dated 1847 to 1858 from War of 1812 veteran James Ord to his son, medical doctor James Lycurgus Ord, mostly regarding family news and touching on social life in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan and political events in Washington, D.C. and California. Also, this portion of the family's papers contains numerous letters dated 1841 to 1865...
Dates: 1841 - 1901; Majority of material found within 1841 - 1865
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Ord Family Papers 3

De Luca Family Papers and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-190709
Scope and Contents This collection is currently unprocessed and access to it may therefore be limited. Researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for more information on access to this collection.The collection contains over 1,700 photographs and 400 documents recording the history of the De Luca family over 8 decades involving the American Civil War, the unification of Italy, the Japanese invasion of China and the Siege of...
Dates: 1860 - 1945
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / De Luca Family Papers and Photographs

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 / Breedin family papers

Boggs Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-861226
Scope and Contents The Boggs Family Papers comprise twenty-one letters, two photographs and four pieces of related materials. Eleven of the letters were written by William R. Boggs, and ten of these were to his brother and sister, Maggie and Adam Boggs, while he was in the Union Army from 1863 - 1865. (Note: The William R. Boggs whose letters are in this Collection should not be confused with the Confederate Brigadier General of the same name.) There are two photographs of William Boggs and they appear to date...
Dates: 1863-1923
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Boggs Family papers

Helen King Boyer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS257
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Helen King Boyer Collection includes the personal papers of Zachariah T. Miller (1847-1913), who was attached to the 61st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment under General Carl Schurz during the American Civil War and later practiced homeopathic medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; his daughter Louise Miller Boyer (1890-1976), a noted artist and pioneer screenwriter at Metro Pictures Corporation in the New York City film industry in 1918; his granddaughter Helen King Boyer (b. 1919),...
Dates: 1800 - 2001; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1976
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Helen King Boyer Collection

Edward Loughborough Keyes, Jr., Papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-010101
Dates: 1870 - 1999
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Edward Loughborough Keyes, Jr., Papers 1

John Erwin papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-801216
Dates: 1862-1863
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / John Erwin papers

Peter R. Brady papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-880801
Scope and contents note Peter R. Brady [1825 - 1902], one of Arizona's leading pioneers, served his country on exploring expeditions as well as in local and state offices. His papers consist of correspondence, documents, photographs and clippings. Most of the correspondence in this collection is from Brady's sisters, Margaret and Mary Ellen, and their respective husbands, Edmund and Major B. B. French. Letters from these individuals provide a fascinating view of the country, and especially Washington, D.C., before,...
Dates: 1850-1898
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Peter R. Brady papers

John Knox Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS342
Scope and Contents The John Knox Papers represent the personal papers of John Knox, who served as law clerk and private secretary for Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds during the October 1936 term. Most notably, the collection includes portions of Knox's typed memoir detailing his experiences during the 1936 Supreme Court term, along with letters, documents, and photographs of Supreme Court justices during the 1930s. Moreover, as Knox was an avid collector, his papers contain an extensive set of...
Dates: 1826 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1980
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / John Knox Papers

Elizabeth Trindal Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-121205
Scope and Contents note

Research materials relating to the book "Mary Suratt: An American Tragedy" by Elizabeth Trindal (1996).

Dates: 1861 - 2011
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Elizabeth Trindal Papers

Elder Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-800826
Scope and Contents The Elder Family Papers consist primarily of correspondence to Francis William Elder (1807-1889), a Baltimore merchant, and his wife, Matilda Winchester Elder. The correspondence concerns various aspects of nineteenth century American Catholicism and Southern history. The collection includes material on Mt. St. Mary's Seminary and St. Joseph's Academy in Emittsburg, Maryland, and correspondence from American Catholic bishops William H. Elder, Thomas S. Byrne, Martin John Spalding, and John...
Dates: 1794 - 1906; Majority of material found within 1863 - 1898
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Elder Family Papers

John S. Mayfield Papers: Autographs Series

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-830101a
Scope and Contents note

Miscellaneous autograph, signed manuscripts by various individuals collected by John S. Mayfield.

Dates: 1443 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1860 - 1950
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / John S. Mayfield Papers: Autographs Series

Ord Family Papers 1

 Collection
Identifier: GTM-GAMMS146
Collection-level Scope and Content Note The Ord family papers consist of correspondence exchanged between, among others, three family members who were important American military figures. Namely, James Ord (c.1789-1873), an officer in the U.S. Navy for a short time, and later a lieutenant in the army during the War of 1812; his son, Edward Otho Cresap Ord (1818-1883), a noted Civil War general; and his son, Edward Otho Cresap Ord II (1858-1923), who served in the Indian campaign in Texas in 1880, commanded the Seminole Indian...
Dates: 1840 - 1963; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1870
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / Ord Family Papers 1

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