Burns Library Archival Collections

Spanish sermon on Saint Francis Xavier, written on a quire of two nested bifolia. Dated Montilla, 1777.

Open for research.

Spanish sermon on Saint Francis Xavier, written on a quire of two nested bifolia. Last 3 pages are blank.

Open for research.

Collection is open for research.

Contains letters and postcards from Charlotte Frances Shaw to her friends Gilbert and Mary Murray regarding her domestic arrangements, travel plans, and health concerns. Additionally, there are two telegrams from Bernard Shaw to Gilbert Murray and one from Bernard Shaw and Granville Barker to Murray. There is also a letter from Blanche Patch, Shaw's secretary, to an unknown correspondent.

Collection is open for research.

This collection concerns the life and naval service of Boston College alumnus and Commander John J. Shea, particularly during World War II. Materials include correspondence, publications, press releases, clippings, photographs, artifacts, and ephemera. Commemorations of Shea’s life and military service are also included.

Collection is open for research.

Academic and personal papers of twentieth century Boston College professor of psychology and theology Joseph E. Shea, SJ, including correspondence, course notes, diaries, retreat notes, and sermons.

Collection is open for research.

These papers consist of the correspondence, military records, teaching materials, and personal materials of twentieth-century military chaplain and Boston College professor Richard G. Shea, SJ.

Collection is open for research.

This collection documents the personal and professional life of Boston Police Deputy Superintendent James T. Sheehan. It includes newspaper clippings, photographs, certificates, correspondence, and an unpublished biography of Sheehan written by his daughter Helen Thomasina Sheehan, S.N.D.

Collection is open for research.

Collection is open for research.

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.

Papers of Mary Keegan Shuman, a nineteenth-century Boston socialite, suffragette, and the first president of the Philomatheia Club, a women's auxiliary organization of Boston College. The collection includes two scrapbooks containing event ephemera, correspondence, magazine and newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting the Club and the broader role of women in local volunteer and charitable work.

Collection is 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.