Burns Library Archival Collections

Shawn Sheehan was a parish priest in Boston, Massachusetts and professor of liturgical and church history at St. John's Seminary. The papers consist of materials pertaining to his parish activities, including numerous sermons, and church movements, particularly ecumenism and justice and peace. In addition, there are materials pertaining to Sheehan's involvement in community projects.

Collection is open for research.

Collection documents the personal and artistic life of American twentieth-century painter Everett Shinn through his love letters to his third wife, Gertrude Chase, and the Chase family's management of their Shinn paintings following the divorce in 1932. Materials include correspondence, exhibit programs, and newspaper clippings. Shinn's letters to Chase also include illustrations and poems he composed for her.

Collection is open for research.

Open for research.

Nine photographs of Boston, Massachusetts's Shubert Theatre. Includes images of stagehands working backstage, audience members receiving programs and audience members standing in front of the building. The marque reads: "Bert Lahr - Dolores Gray - Two on the aisle."

Open for research.

Records from the Alpha Chi (Boston College) Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, the National Honor Society in Nursing, including administrative materials, newsletters, photographs, programs, and promotional materials.

Collection is open for research.

Audio and video recordings are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. Please let Burns Library Public Services know of your specific interest; if possible, reformatting will be scheduled.

The collection contains items of correspondence and one poem extract by the 19th century American author William Gilmore Simms.

Collection is open for research.

This collection of papers concerns twentieth-century British poet and author Edith Sitwell. It is comprised of correspondence, manuscript drafts of poems and other writings, and an obituary.

Collection is open for research.

Materials printed by Christopher Skelton at Skelton's Press and September Press.

Collection is open for research.

Papers that document the education and religious training of George F. Smith, SJ, primarily in the years surrounding his ordination in 1927. Consists of diaries with letters, photographs, clippings, and ephemera, as well as two passports.

Collection is open for research.

This collection documents Boston-area Irish music in the 1950s and 1960s through unpublished recordings of social gatherings made by James W. Smith. These recordings capture reels, jigs, waltzes, hornpipes, and set dances with instrumentation from solos to groups including fiddle, flute, whistle, and accordion.

Collection is open for research.

Recordings have been digitally copied; all original media was retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

Papers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Methodist Episcopal minister M. H. (Milford Hale) Smith, including his notes, research materials, and sermons promoting temperance and denouncing drinking.

Collection is open for research.

Composed of correspondence, memoranda, reports, publications and other materials of the Social Welfare Research Institute. Some of the material relates to the Aid for Families with Dependent Children Program. Includes correspondence and other materials of directors Barry Bluestone and Paul Schervish, as well as letters of the Institute of Human Services and the Office of Research Administration at Boston College.

Collection is closed.

Russian-language posters published in Moscow, Russia. The posters show images celebrating the achievements of the Soviet Union, including young Soviet workers, military and scientific innovation, and political leaders. Two of the posters are in Armenian, with publication notes in Russian.

Collection is open for research.

Liturgical manuscript containing three-part antiphons and vespers including settings for the In circumcisione Domini, In Festo S. Agnesio Verginis, In Conversione S. Pauli Apostoli, In Ascensione Domini, Commemoration Solemnis B.V.M. de Monte Carlo, and Assumptio Beate Mariae Virginis. These were used in the Carmelite Convent of Santa Maria degl'Angeli in Florence.

Open for research.

Records of the Speckled Band, the Boston chapter of the Baker Street Irregulars, a literary society dedicated to the celebration and study of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes (created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle). Materials include administrative records, correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, printed ephemera, and audio recordings.

Collection is open for research.

Audio recordings are not available for playback due to format impermanence and have not been reformatted. Please let Burns Library Public Services know of your specific interest; if possible, reformatting will be scheduled.

This collection contains the correspondence, legal and administrative documents, photographs, and artifacts of Gusty Spence (1933-2011), a leader of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and loyalist politician in Northern Ireland.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research. Some items, particularly in Series IX. and X., have been hand-illustrated and illuminated by Margaret and Henry Adams. Please do not directly touch the illustrations; this helps preserve their detail.

These papers cover the personal life and scholarly work of Edward S. Stanton, SJ (1916-1983), a faculty member in Boston College’s Theology Department. Much of the collection deals with Stanton’s relationship and scholarship relating to John La Farge, SJ (1880-1963), who was an advocate for interracial justice. Materials include Stanton's manuscripts, photographs, publications, retreat notes, speeches, and sermons, as well as some of La Farge’s writings.

Collection is open for research.

Materials written or collected by twentieth-century Jesuit William M. Stinson, SJ, including notes on literary and theological topics, postcards from World War I-era Europe, and early United States currency.

Collection is open for research.

Contains telegraphic codes to transmit sensitive textile trade business, compiled by Boston textile brokers Stoddard, Lovering, & Company. Includes codes for business phrases and mill names.

Open for research.

A scrapbook assembled by New England philanthropist Agnes C. Storer, containing cards, correspondence, a drawing, photographs, and newspaper clippings, most concerning Jesuit priests and institutions. Much of the correspondence has been clipped and just the autograph retained.

Collection is open for research.

Pictoral map. Published by Colortext Publications, Chicago.

Open for research.