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Jean Baptiste de Ville Papers

DVL Jean Baptiste de Ville Papers 1910s-1930s.
Origination : Ville, Jean Baptiste de, 1870-1932.
Extent : 2 linear feet.
Repository : University of Notre Dame Archives Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

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Preferred Citation

Jean Baptiste de Ville Papers (DVL), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556

Scope and Content

Correspondence, 1910s-1930s, including a thank-you note from Theodore Roosevelt, 29 July 1918; scrapbooks of DeVille, 1910s-1930s; and printed material including The Good Samaritan, (April 1924), a monthly publication of the Judge Gary - Bishop Alerding Settlement House, and DeVille's Back from Belgium: A Secret History of Three Years within the German Lines (1919).

Background

Priest, relief worker in Belgium during WWI, and director of the Judge Gary - Bishop Alerding Settlement House in Gary, Indiana, 1919-1930.

Index : 

 Ville, Jean Baptiste de, 1870-1932. 
 Judge Gary - Bishop Alerding Settlement House. 
 Social settlements -- Indiana -- Gary. 
 World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium. 
 World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives. 
 Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. 
 Good Samaritan.
 Back from Belgium.
 Scrapbooks.

  • CDVL Jean Baptiste de Ville: Manuscripts