Scope and Contents This collection from the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work offers a look into the inner workings of the department through two different series. The first houses the meeting notes for the departmental meetings. While offering notes from 1966-2011, the most complete notes are found in the 1990’s. The second series offers a look into the department following the St. Joseph Hall Fire in 1987. Included are inventory sheets of things lost in the fire as well as correspondence...

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The collection contains 65 facsimile reprints of original dime novels, published by the Dime Novel Club of Brooklyn, New York. The original publication dates span 1877-1915. The reprints were published in the late 1940s.

Scope and Contents The Distance 4 Dreams collection contains photos of the Disney Weekend Marathon Weekend, the student organization always wears matching T-Shirts for the race and tours the Give Kids the World Village and takes a picture in front of the famous mushroom carisoul at the GKTW Village. The certificate of the stone that was in the honor of the Distance 4 Dreams organization for their charitable donation is included in the collection. As well, there are images of the organization events hosted on...

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This collection contains correspondence, course materials, manuscripts, and articles by Eamon R. Carroll, O.Carm. Topics include Mariology, Marian devotion, and ecumenism.

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This collection contains greeting cards, postcards, commemorative cards, clippings, pamphlets, and other printed ephemera depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary, Maddonna and Child, the life of Jesus and Mary, and other religious themes in the style of Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox art.

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The Ecumenical Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary records contain meeting minutes, newsletters, papers, pamphlets, and a variety of documents and multimedia materials documenting the history and activities of the ESBVM/USA, a group that exists to promote ecumenical devotion and advance the study of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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Materials collected by UD alumnus, Edward C. Dill. The majority of the collection is made up of Franklin D. Roosevelt memorabilia, such as medals, stamps, buttons and pins, photographs, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, and other promotional and campaign materials.

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Papers of music and physical education instructor, Eileen L. Sears, who also served as director of the student union in the 1950s. This small collection includes photographs, correspondence, performance programs, clippings, and research and draft manuscripts of Sears' published Civil War novel, Born a Rebel (1990).

Scope and Contents This collection contains the works and faculty papers of Dr. Enrique Romaguera. Series I details the theatre productions Dr. Romaguera directed during his time at the Unicersity of Dayton as well as a collection of scripts authored by him. Series II are the academic works collected throughout his career, most notably when he was in graduate studies. Series III is about the creation of the Language Learning Center, a coalition Dr. Romaguera was the head of. The Language Learning Center was a...

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Collection of academic planners, VHS tapes, and letters of Dr. Eugene R. August, as well as documents relating to his time as a professor and his term as Alumi Chair.

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The Father Alfred Boeddeker collection contains stories on Marian apparitions and devotions, brochures, prayers, sheet music, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and materials for a course in Mariology. Father Boeddeker was a Franciscan priest based in California. He was the founder of the St. Anthony Dining Room in San Francisco, and is known for his humanitarian work as well as his participation in a number of Marian organizations.

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This collection contains correspondence, publications, reports, and ephemera related to Fr. Bert Buby's study of Ephesus. A large portion of the collection includes letters and email exchanges with Joseph Quatman of The American Society of Ephesus, Inc. regarding Ephesus.

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This collection contains a series of lectures on Mariology given by Fr. Bertrand E. Clemens, S.M., in 1982. The lectures, on 13 audio cassettes, cover topics including Mary's Virginity, Cana, Calvary, Discipleship, Mary's Humanness, and the Magnificat, among others.

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Collection of research material and correspondence of Father Edward O’Connor of the University of Notre Dame.

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Personal clipping collection of Father Jerome Mersberger, the priest who served as pastor of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Green Scapular in Palmyra, Wisconsin, as well as a small collection of personal papers, including homilies, notes, and correspondence.

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This collection is of rosaries that were donated to Father John T. Arsenault, priest for the Diocese of Portland, Maine.

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This collection contains original and reproduced correspondence, drafts, minutes, and other papers related to the composition of the 1973 pastoral letter Behold Your Mother: Woman of Faith published by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. These papers were collected by Father John T. Myler during his dissertation research. The collection also includes an oral history with Father Eamon Carroll, O.Carm., conducted by Father Myler.

Abstract According to his book La Anunciación: Conversaciones con Fray Angélico (1998), Fr. José María Salaverri, SM had a lifelong fascination with the mystery of the Annunciation. He was born on the Feast of the Annunciation in 1926, and he always viewed the mystery as in some way "his" (14). For Fr. Salaverri, the Annunciation/Incarnation event is the central mystery of the Christian faith, a unique moment in which heaven and earth met and God became one of us...

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This collection documents the history and activities of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Green Scapular and the Green Scapular travel club based in Palmyra, Wisconsin. The collection also contains the early personal papers of Father Jerome Mersberger, pastor at the shrine and organizer of the travel club.

Abstract This collection contains the course materials, lectures, manuscripts, and published articles of French theologian, Father René Laurentin. Documents in the collection date from 1948 through 2003 and cover Catholic theology and Mariology. Course materials in the collection were developed primarily for the Marian summer institutes and International Marian Research Institute at the University of Dayton from circa 1966 through 2003. Course materials in English were translated from the French by...

Abstract This collection contains materials collected by Fr. Robert E. Hughes, S.M., regarding his research on Marian apparitions and mystics. The collection includes newsletters, correspondence, articles, and ephemera relating to reported Marian apparitions, mystics, or visionaries. The collection primarily covers apparitions in the United States and includes some materials that are international in scope. One series in the collection is related to Medjugorje and includes materials from the...

Abstract This collection contains five Marian activity program booklets created by the Franciscans (Order of Friars Minor). The programs were organized by scholastic units of the Province of the Immaculate Conception (New York, N.Y.) from 1959-1964. The booklets outline day or evening programs during each liturgical year and include brief talks or papers given during the programs. Programs were primarily held at Franciscan seminaries in the Northeast region of the United States, but also included...

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This collection contains by-laws, meeting minutes, reports, papers, and ephemera which document the history and activities of the Franciscan National Marian Commission, an organized movement within the Order of Friars Minor. The organization’s purpose was to promote Marian congresses, institutes, studies, and centers, and to sponsor the publication of The Marian Era from 1960-1976.

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Materials related to the history and present activities of the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement.

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A collection of holy cards and other devotional materials printed by Fratelli Bonella, an Italian publisher of religious images.