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This guide from Plough Library covers the Battersby Lasallian Collection of books in Plough Library, along with links to free online books, resources on St. Baptist de la Salle, and much more.

From the CBU website.

Kenrick Memory Project was a collaborative public history endeavor to collect the experiences, moments, and memories of the Christian Brothers University community over the last 75 years of its existence at the East Parkway campus.
NOTE: This is a Wayback Machine archive of the site from 2019, and pages may be slow to load.

Manhattan College houses these collections: Archives of Manhattan College, Archives of the De La Salle Christian Brothers of the legacy New York (NY) District, Archives of the De La Salle Christian Brothers of the legacy Long Island-New England (LI-NE) District, Christian Brothers of the Midwest District Archives, Lasallian Research Collection, District of Eastern North America (DENA) Archives, and the Archives of the Christian Brothers Conference.

In 1871, following the October fire in Chicago, Brother Anthony was one of the three Brothers sent to Memphis to establish the first community of Brothers in Memphis at Christian Brothers College. This webpage from St. Patrick's Academy contains some of his diary entries from the time of the fire, as compiled by Brother Terence McLaughlin.

Image from the Getty Museum of the ruins of the Christian Brothers School in Chicago that burned in the fire of 1871.

Article by Dr. Marius Carriere from CBU.