Collection Items: World

World

This collection contains materials that were published outside the United States and that do not fit in other existing collections as well as non-domestic personal paper collections not collected elsewhere. Included are books of heraldry from England and Japan, and genealogy and family papers.

O'Neill Family Collection

This collection contains genealogical and biographical materials on the O'Neill family including reunions, programs, and interviews. Digitization status: ongoing.

Thomas John Jones, Merchant Navy Officer

Comprises the personal archive of the nautical career of Welsh mariner Thomas John Jones of Aberarth near Aberaeron. Includes his papers for apprenticeship and assignments under the Board of Trade, his certificate for the rank of Master contained in the original tin box, photographs, flags. Documents travels in Europe, North and South America, West Indies, Australia, India, East Indies, Africa, China, Japan and Russia from 1888-1913. Many of the materials are connected to his service aboard the merchant steamer S.S. Knight Errant. Digitization status: ongoing.

Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde

This collection contains the 12-volume set of Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, published by Jean Frederic Bernard with engravings by Bernard Picart. This edition was published from 1807 to 1810.

Digitization status: complete.

Charles Dickens

This collection gathers materials by and about Charles Dickens and the extended Dickens family, including letters from Charles Dickens, Jr.

German Carte-de-visites

This collection consists of cartes-de-visite of various German family members from one extended family, related to Heinrich Möllering : 50 pieces of original cabinet card photography from 1900 to 1920 - Germany. Labeled cards (either front or back) are from 29 different photographers. Some of the photographs have handwritten notes and dates on the rear in German. Funds for acquisition donated from Erin McKinstry, Villanova class of 2014.

Good family history in watercolors and prints : Life in Victorian era Hull, England.

This collection brings together materials by members of the Good family of Hull, England, in the 1880s. This includes an exceptional Victorian scrap album of mounted, original watercolor portraits of family women and children with one leaf signed and one leaf initialed by the artist, Edith Good of Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire. The scrapbook is supplemented and enriched by nine leaves extracted from a planned scrap album by Edith Good's favorite brother, Frederick de Coninck Good, to which she contributed. Frederick Good's scrap album with its witty, narrative-rich lithograph and woodcut print ephemera done for family occasions was left unfinished because of his untimely death at age 34, from a self-inflicted gunshot (January 24, 1887). The artworks reflect and document the family's six generation history in Hull and three generations in Denmark. There are a total of 76 original works by Good family artists (47 watercolors (43 mounted), 16 drawings, 9 lithographs, and 4 woodcuts) + the embossed program for the 48th annual State Concert at Buckingham Palace celebrating Queen Victoria's reign.

Grace, Princess of Monaco

Jones

This collection brings together genealogical and family material about the extended Jones and Peyton-Jones family.

Johann Albert Norstedt Irish Stamp and Postcard collection

The collection consists of fourteen binders of Irish postage stamps (1922-2016), and two binders devoted to Irish period postcards and related materials: one pertaining to the Irish International Exhibition of 1907, and one containing postcards of Dublin and its suburbs in the early twentieth century. The collection was created and donated by Johan Albert Norstedt (1937-2020). Digitization: In Process.

Quebec Bridge

This subcollection brings together the two volume report by Canada's Department of Railways and Canals on the construction and collapse of the St. Lawrence River Quebec bridge. See the Wikipedia article for additional information.