Monsignor Noe Field Archives & Special Collections Center

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Anthony (Tony) Triano (1928-1997) was a famous New Jersey painter, sculptor, and illustrator. He was also an artist-in-residence and later tenured professor at Seton Hall University. The Anthony Triano collection dates from 1971 to 1997 and documents Triano's professional activities during his tenure at Seton Hall University. The collection includes correspondence, teaching and tenure materials, exhibition materials, sketches, clippings, and blueprints of Seton Hall buildings.

Scope and Contents The Maria Mazziotti Gillan collection dates from 1985 to 2013 and documents the activities of poet and program director Maria Mazziotti Gillan as a professor, program director, editor, and writer of numerous publications and colleges.The collection comprises of correspondence, photographs, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and magazines.This collection will prove valuable for researchers interested in the work of Italian American women poets and the history of poetry and immigrant life in...

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Miriam Rooney was a lawyer, the first dean of the Seton Hall University Law School (making her the first female dean of a law school in the United States), and a professor of law. The Miriam Rooney papers include letters from friends, a diary, photographs, and religious papers, some of which relate to the death of Monsignor Edward Pace.

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Walter J. Cohrssen was a Professor of Music at Seton Hall University between 1952 and 1977, as well as a musical composer. This collection spans the time period between 1929 and 1983 and consists of Cohrssen's own handwritten musical scores, as well as some audio recordings of Cohrssen's pieces, a scrapbook, and several photographs and ephemera.

Abstract / Abstracto Father Raúl Comesañas, 1943-2018, was a Roman Catholic Priest and civic advocate from the Union City, New Jersey area. Fr. Comesañas was active in many different organizations throughout his life, including the Union of Cuban Exiles (1980-1990), National Co-Chairman of the Spanish-Speaking Advisory Committee to the United States Commissioner of Education (1970-1973), and running for the 13th Congressional district United States House of Representatives race in 1970. The Father Raúl Comesañas...