The University of Notre Dame Archives and the Hesburgh Libraries

Notre Dame, Indiana — the university's archive, in the unincorporated community of the same name

The Archives: the University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA) is the official repository of the university's papers and of much that surrounds it, and the Notre Dame files of this history stand on its published apparatus: the presidents table read in full, the Grotto history monograph, the finding aid to the county's Civil War records, the runs of the Scholastic and The Observer, and Brother Aidan's Extracts — the Extracts drawing in their turn on Blanchard's History of the Catholic Church in Indiana (1898) and Alerding's The Diocese of Fort Wayne (1907), which is how a checker follows the Religion file's diocesan facts back to their shelf. A second South Bend collection lives inside this one and is easy to miss: the Northern Indiana Historical Society's own local history manuscripts — minutes and holdings lists, the ledgers and papers of Coquillard, Colfax, Taylor and others, records of S. Hanna & Co. and George Wyman & Co., Studebaker family papers, dated 1801–1970 — survive on 38 reels of microfilm catalogued at Notre Dame (identifier NIH), whatever the History Museum's own shelves hold in original.

The Hesburgh Libraries: the university's library system holds two collections this history depends on and distinguishes carefully. The first is the AAGPBL manuscript collection, MSSP 0014 — Bertha Dailey's nine notebooks and their fellows — a manuscript archive, distinct in kind and in home from the History Museum's national AAGPBL collection of record (above). The second is not a collection but a subscription, and it matters more to the next checker than any other single item in this section: the NewsBank digital archive of the South Bend Tribune, 1873–2018, acquired by the Hesburgh Libraries and announced on 2 April 2024 — the only complete digital run of the city's newspaper of record, held behind a university's door.

Sources:

1. University of Notre Dame Archives — the presidents table, the Grotto monograph, the Civil War records finding aid, and the Northern Indiana Historical Society Local History Manuscripts record (identifier NIH; 1801–1970; 38 reels), ArchivesSpace.
2. Hesburgh Libraries / Notre Dame news release, 2 April 2024 (the NewsBank Tribune archive); Hesburgh Libraries collection records (MSSP 0014).