Burns Library Archival Collections

Materials concerning twentieth-century Catholic artist Ade Bethune. Includes articles, correspondence, liturgical art, and prayer cards.

Collection is open for research.

Includes original manuscripts of two works: A Sea Battle(published 1948), and Laura's Bishop(published 1949). Also includes correspondence to Alfred Perceval Graves.

Collection is open for research.

Open for research.

Open for research.

View of five Black people (two men, a woman, and two children), in front of a cabin.

Open for research.

Manuscript map showing the Fenway neighborhood of Boston, between Brookline Avenue and Fenway, with property of the Boston Water Power Company in yellow, and waterways in blue.

Open for research.

Papers documenting the life and work of twentieth-century German scholar Heinz Bluhm, a Professor of Germanic Studies at Boston College. Includes correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, research notes, and teaching material. The bulk of the papers concern Martin Luther, Goethe, and related topics in German.

Collection is open for research. Audio materials in Series I may not be available immediately for use as they will require reformatting; please contact the Burns Library in advance for access to audio materials.

Includes manuscripts, correspondence, lectures, publications and visual images, mainly related to Francis Thompson, English Romantic poets, Robert Hale Ives Gammell, and the history of London (specifically its gardens and the relationship of it poets to those gardens).

Closed until processed.

Richard S. Bolan papers document urban development and city planning in the greater Boston metropolitan area from the early 1960s into the early 1970s. Included are published reports on the subject, as well as the notes, drafts, data, and correspondence of city planner Richard Bolan who studied and worked in the subject as both a government bureaucrat and an academic.

Collection is open for research.

Papers that document the congressional career of Edward P. Boland in the House of Representatives for the 2nd District of Massachusetts. Composed of correspondence, photographs, audio and video recordings, artifacts and ephemera, clippings, publications, posters, and photograph albums.

Collection is open for research; a small number of materials are closed due to privacy restrictions. One audio cassette has been digitally copied; 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. This collection is stored off-site. Please allow 24-48 hours for retrieval.

The John Louis Bonn, SJ papers document the life of Bonn, a Jesuit priest, writer, and educator who attended Boston College and taught classics, English, and drama there from 1930-1949. It includes correspondence, ephemera, lecture and staging notes, manuscripts, and photographs.

Collection is open for research. Audiovisual recordings in this collection 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.

A calligraphed manuscript containing thirteen poems by Moirin Cheavasa. Each poem was written out by the hand of calligrapher Liam O Duinn. Several pages contain handwritten corrections by Colm O Lochlainn. Both the cover of the manuscript and the enclosure bear the logo of the Three Candles Press. The item was exhibited as an illuminated manuscript at Seventh Exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society in Dublin in 1925.

Open for research.

Records of the publishing association Bookbuilders of Boston, including correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, publicity, and related items. The materials document various activities of the association, including dinner meetings, executive committee meetings, the annual New England Book Show, workshops, and other events.

The collection consists of nineteenth- and twentieth-century mounted bookplates. The plates feature finely detailed artwork, and serve as examples of period book art and typography. The artists and origins of the bookplates are from numerous countries, with the majority from the Czech Republic, Brazil, the Netherlands, and the United States.

Collection is open for research.

Memorandum book of the Boston Brass Band compiled by S. S. Pearce, listing performances, venues, names of musicians, and amounts paid in 1837. The Band played at venues in New England, including Faneuil Hall and Boston Common, and at parades, military musters, and funerals. The second part of the book records an Atlantic sea voyage taken in August 1838.

Open for research. Volume is fragile and should be used with care.

Administrative files, committee records, correspondence, and departmental records prior to 1968 are open except files containing personally identifiable information, financial records, or student records. All budget files, faculty files, and records dating after 1968 are closed. Access with permission of office.

This collection consists of photographs of alumni, both as individuals and at class and group events. There are also a small series of photographs of the Alumni Association. The collection includes photographs, proofs, contact sheets, negatives, slides, and cartes-de-visites.

Collection is open for research.

A hand-lettered memorial list of Boston College alumni who died serving in the United States Armed Forces in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Open for research.

This collection is minimally described and includes many items on public view or too large to be easily paged. Burns Library might not be able to fulfill access requests.

This collection documents the history of the American Jesuit university Boston College in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries through its material culture. The collection includes banners, flags, football memorabilia, groundbreaking shovels, medals, pins, plaques, seals, and signs from Boston College administrators, faculty, and, to a lesser degree, students.

Collection is open for research.

The records of the Office of the Associate Academic Vice President document the office's involvement in committee activities between 1974-2005. Materials include agendas, committee reports, correspondence, handouts, meeting minutes and summaries, member lists, memos, notes, operations and procedures, reports, self-studies, and task force updates.

Collection is closed. Access with permission of office.