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Oral history transcripts of the American Bar Association Women Trailblazers Project, 1998-2019

Collection Identifier: MC 1204
Overview:

Oral history transcripts, legal agreements, and biographical materials of the interviewees of the Women Trailblazers in the Law Project.

Andrew Wylie papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601654
Overview:

Papers relating to Wylie's legal practice and his work as judge of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

Papers of Beatrice Sobel Burstein, 1928-2001 (inclusive), 1954-1991 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 640: T-372: Vt-178: Phon-55
Overview:

Papers of Beatrice Sobel Burstein, member of New York State Commission of Correction, lawyer, judge, and advocate for prisoners' and children's rights.

Catharine Waugh McCulloch papers in the Mary Earhart Dillon collection, 1869-1945

Collection Identifier: A-68, Series VI: M-133, reels E13-25
Overview:

Correspondence, speeches, articles, etc., of Catharine Waugh McCulloch, suffragist and lawyer.

Papers of Raya S. Dreben, 1949-2021

Collection Identifier: MC 1251
Overview:

Professional correspondence, resumes, speeches, legal documents, and other materials documenting Raya S. Dreben's career as a lawyer and judge.

Edward J. Holmes collection of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. materials

Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-243
Overview:

Edward Holmes was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr's nephew. The Edward J. Holmes collection of materials relating to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and his family consists of correspondence, estate matters, and various family documents.

Eldon R. (Eldon Revare) James papers relating to his position as Adviser in Foreign Affairs to the Siamese Government

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601630
Scope and Contents: The papers of Eldon Revare James contain close to 350 personal letters that Dr. and Mrs. James sent to their respective families and close family friends in the U.S., depicting every detail of their official and unofficial life in Bangkok, and their impressions of the country and its people; official correspondence, primarily between Dr. James and Prince Devawongse, the Minister for Foreign Affairs; and some miscellaneous correspondence and other items relating to their connection with...

Focus on Women Videotapes, 1983-1993

Collection Identifier: Vt-59
Overview:

Half-hour interviews aired on Focus on Women, a television show featuring women of achievement.

Learned Hand papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601605
Overview: Materials relating to Hand's private and public life, his activities as an alumnus of Harvard University, his friendship with Felix Frankfurter, and to the Hand family. Includes material on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, New York City; information on the Progressive movement (1909-1914) and the beginnings of the New Republic and its early staff; and transcripts of oral-history interviews conducted by Gerald...

Mark De Wolfe Howe research materials relating to life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-239
Overview:

Research materials created or collected by Mark De Wolfe Howe in his capacity as the official biographer of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Papers of Burnita Shelton Matthews, 1926-1981

Collection Identifier: MC 318
Overview:

Scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, etc., of Burnita (Shelton) Matthews, suffragist and first woman to serve as a federal district judge.

Papers of Catharine Waugh McCulloch, 1877-1983

Collection Identifier: MC 378: M-133, reels E29-34
Overview:

Correspondence, speeches, articles, etc., of Catharine Waugh McCulloch, suffragist and lawyer.

Additional records of the National Association of Women Judges, 1966-2012

Collection Identifier: MC 749: T-255: Vt-73: DVD-94
Overview:

By-laws, minutes, conference materials, financial and membership records, photographs, and audiovisual material of the National Association of Women Judges, a non-partisan, charitable and educational organization.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. addenda

Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-256
Overview:

The Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Addenda consists of items regarding Holmes's life, family, and work, which were donated to the library by various parties after the primary collection of his papers was made available to the public. The collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks and diaries, clippings, reprints, and family papers dating to the mid-nineteenth century.

Papers of Caroline K. Simon, 1917-1993 (inclusive), 1950-1980 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 370: M-102: T-178: Phon-8: Phon-26
Overview:

Papers of Caroline K. Simon, lawyer, judge, and Secretary of State of New York.

Papers of Florence Ellinwood Allen, 1921-1958

Collection Identifier: A-6
Overview:

Biographical material, addresses, court decisions, etc., of Florence Ellinwood Allen, first woman lawyer appointed to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, for the Sixth Circuit.

Papers of Jennie L. Barron, 1911-1969

Collection Identifier: MC 410: M-134: T-102
Overview:

Correspondence, clippings, photographs, etc., of Jennie Loitman Barron, lawyer and Municipal Court judge.

Papers of Marguerite Rawalt, 1870s-1989

Collection Identifier: MC 478: Vt-125
Overview:

Papers of Marguerite Rawalt, attorney and officer in the National Federation of Business and Professional Women, National Organization for Women, and Women's Equity Action League.

Papers of Justine Wise Polier, 1892-2015

Collection Identifier: MC 413: DVD-120
Overview:

Correspondence, reports, oral histories, photographs, etc., of Justine Wise Polier, judge and authority on juvenile justice.

Records of Legal Momentum, 1978-2011

Collection Identifier: MC 727: Vt-240: DVD-73
Overview:

Correspondence; conference material; grant proposals; legal files; legislative material; minutes; project and planning files; publications; resource material; audiovisual materials, etc., reflecting Legal Momentum's work to advance the rights of women and girls through litigation and public policy advocacy.

Records of the National Association of Women Judges, 1979-1997 (inclusive), 1979-1989 (bulk)

Collection Identifier: MC 436: T-255: Vt-73
Overview:

Records of the National Association of Women Judges, an organization that was founded in 1979 to address legal, educational, social, and ethical issues facing women judges and to increase the number of women judges in the judiciary.

Records of the National Association of Women Lawyers, 1913-1999

Collection Identifier: MC 740
Overview:

By-laws, minutes, annual reports, financial records, publications, clippings, photographs, and membership records of the National Association of Women Lawyers, a voluntary legal organization promoting the interests of women lawyers and advocating for women's rights.

Records of the NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund, 1968-2008

Collection Identifier: MC 623: T-200: Vt-177: DVD-57: MP-12: Phon-54
Overview:

Records of the National Organization for Women Legal Defense & Education Fund (NOW LDEF), founded in 1970 to fight gender inequality in the United States through litigation and public policy advocacy.

Robert Braucher papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601604
Overview: Bulk of the collection relates to Braucher's work as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission on Uniform State Laws, together with material on his work on the statute of Fraud for the New York Law Revision Commission, as reporter for the American Law Institute, as a member of the Massachusetts Statutory Special Commission on Code of Ethics, the Massachusetts Attorney General Advisory Council on Conflict of Interests, and the National Commission on Uniform State Laws, and as chairman of...

Papers of Edith Spurlock Sampson, 1927-1979

Collection Identifier: MC 397
Overview:

Papers of Cook County circuit judge Edith Spurlock Sampson.