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AM. Archives & Manuscripts

 Record Group
Identifier: AM
Primary source archives and manuscripts materials related to the history of Louisiana and the South. Many of the collections were produced by alumni, professors, and others associated with the Loyola University New Orleans. Collections areas include Communications and Mass Media, Social Justice, Performing Arts, and New Orleans Writers.

Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:

New Orleans Film Society Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Collection 76-2016.11
Scope and Contents

Selection of programs from various festivals the New Orleans Film Society has produced.

Dates: Created: 1996, 2015-1016; Other: Date acquired: 06/08/0017

New Orleans Opera Association Archives

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Collection 74
Scope and Contents The New Orleans Opera Association Archives documents the business and creative operations of NOOA from its inception in 1943 to 2015. The contents of the collection were donated to Special Collections & Archives over the course of over a decade starting in 2003. Special Collections & Archives continues to receive programs of ongoing performances; these will be added to the collection annually (Subseries II-B: NOOA Programs). Board minutes, budgets, personnel files, promotional...
Dates: Created: 1916-2015; Other: Majority of material found in 1943-2015; Other: Date acquired: 07/09/2013

New Orleans Review Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Collection 03
Scope and Contents The New Orleans Review Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and printed material relating to the history and publication of The New Orleans Review. The most valuable material is found in the Correspondence and the Copy series and in the Minutes subseries of Series V. Correspondence and minutes document the staff's functioning. Exchanges between staff and contributors is also found in the correspondence. The Copy series follows the author's manuscript...
Dates: Created: 1968-1980; Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1978; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1982

New Orleans Social Justice and Activism

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Collection 44
Scope and Contents The collection consists primarily of materials related to social justice issues in and around New Orleans and Latin America from the mid 1980s to early 1991. The collection includes pamphlets and newsletters of various coalitions in opposition to David Duke's 1990 gubernatorial campaign, contemporary news clippings, and reference materials on Duke and white supremacy. The collection also contains organizing materials in opposition to The Gulf War and local journals relative to labor parties,...
Dates: Created: 1973-2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1985-1991

New Orleans-Southeast Regional Office of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Collection 47
Abstract The Committee in Solidarity with the People of EL Salvador was founded in 1980 in response to the Civil War in EL Salvador (1980-1992). The U.S. government during the Reagan Administration supported the Salvadoran government and its military. CISPES was founded in support of oppositional guerrilla groups, particularly the Farabundi Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), and its political representation, the Democratic Revolutionary Front (FDR). The 1985 Directory of Central American...
Dates: Created: 1964-1996; Other: Majority of material found in 1980-1987; Other: Date acquired: 04/10/1997

Norman Treigle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Collection 20
Scope and Contents The collection consists of eight boxes containing correspondence, programs, press clippings, contracts, and scrapbooks kept by Treigle and family members during his 30-year career as a professional singer. The material was organized chronologically by Treigle’s biographer, Brian Morgan, a Loyola graduate and opera director. He, with the cooperation of the Treigle family, donated the collection to Special Collections in the Loyola University Library before joining the Order of Saint Benedict...
Dates: Created: 1941-1998; Other: Date acquired: 03/07/2001

Patrick Samway, S.J. Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Collection 63
Scope and Contents The Samway Papers include a range of material related to Samways’ interest in and research on Southern literature with an acute focus on his biography of Walker Percy published in 1997. Material regarding Samway’s humanitarian work in Haiti and Africa can also be found. The types of material in this collection include correspondence, monographs, essays, speeches, ephemera, photographic prints, negatives and audiocassettes. Samway corresponded with a number of writers, scholars, and members...
Dates: Created: 1970-2005; Other: Majority of material found in 1985-2005; Other: Date acquired: 06/11/1995

Percy-Romagosa Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Collection 16
Abstract

This collection centers on the relationship between Walker Percy and Elmo L. Romagosa. Percy was a noted novelist and needs no introduction. Romagosa was a prominent priest in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Dates: Created: 1972-1993; Other: Majority of material found in 1982-1989; Other: Date acquired: 08/10/1999

Percy-Suhor Letters

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Collection 31
Scope and Contents

The Walker Percy and Charles Suhor correspondence is comprised of four letters and one journal article, dating from 1971-1975. These letters include Percy's response to Suhor's critique of Love in the Ruins, as well as a discussion on linguistics.

Dates: Created: 1971-1975; Other: Majority of material found in 1971-1975; Other: Date acquired: 01/05/2005

Percy-Walsh Correspondence

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Collection 13
Abstract Lancelot moved Walsh as a study of evil and rebirth. He particularly empathized with the character of the priest who listens silently as the novel's central character, Lance, recounts a story of jealousy, deceit, and vengeance set in south Louisiana. The priest and Lance are old acquaintances, having grown up and gone to school together. Lance ascribes literary and religious persona to the various stages of the unresponding priest's life: Harry, Harry...
Dates: Created: 1980-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1980-1985; Other: Date acquired: 05/03/2000