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Brandeis, Louis Dembitz

Supreme Court of the United States (1916-1941)

American Jewish Archives
Cincinnati, Ohio

Papers, ca. 1913-1966.
ca. 160 items and 32 microfilm reels; restricted; correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to Zionism and other issues.

American Jewish Historical Society
Waltham, Mass.

Letters, 1886-1940.
14 letters; miscellaneous correspondence.

Brandeis University
Waltham, Mass.

Brandeis family papers.
ca. 100 ft.; collection includes large amounts of family and other correspondence, Brandeis`s school notebooks, checkbooks, and memorabilia.

The public papers of Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 1879-1973.
8 microfilm reels; finding aid; Brandeis?s papers dating from the period before his appointment to the Supreme Court.

Harvard University Law School
Cambridge, Mass.

Papers of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 1881-1966.
50 linear ft. (ca. 18,000 items); finding aid; restricted; collection contains working papers (1916-1939) for cases in which Brandeis wrote an opinion, including draft opinions with comments by other justices, memos and research notes by law clerks, and
correspondence with fellow justices and others relating to those cases; as well as notes (2 vols.) by Felix Frankfurter of conversations with Brandeis at Chatham, Mass. (1922-1926), a bound set of opinions, and other papers.

Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.

Collection, 1926-1941.
4 items; collection is a part of the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.

University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
Louisville, Ky.

Papers, 1870-1941.
140 ft. (250,000 items); finding aid; restricted; collection contains Brandeis`s legal and judicial papers, and correspondence.

State University of New York at Albany
Albany, N.Y.

Correspondence, 1870-1941.
21 linear ft.; copies of correspondence between Brandeis and his family, friends, and colleagues.

Alabama Department of Archives and History
Montgomery, Ala.

Oscar Wilder Underwood papers, 1876-1962; 65 cubic ft. (88 archives boxes, 26 records center cartons, 11 oversize boxes, and 6 vols.); finding aid; correspondence.

American Jewish Archives
Cincinnati, Ohio

Samuel Broches collection, 1671-1949; 21 boxes; correspondence.

Abraham Jehiel Feldman papers, 1906-1977; ca. 19 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Richard James Horatio Gottheil papers, 1886-1982; 1,310 pp.; finding aid; correspondence.

Horace Meyer Kallen papers, 1902-1975; ca. 38 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Samuel Schulman papers, 1890-1955; 16.8 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Abraham Spicehandler papers, 1922-1963; 789 pp. (3 microfilm reels); finding aid; represented.

Zionist papers, 1913-1966; 160 items and 32 microfilm reels; restricted; correspondence and other papers.

American Jewish Historical Society
Waltham, Mass.

Isadore Breslau papers, 1938-1967; 1 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Lee Kaufer Frankel papers, 1889-1931; 11 linear ft.; represented.

Felix Frankfurter papers and articles, 1916-1958; 11 items; collection contains material
concerning Brandeis?s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Herbert Friedenwald correspondence, 1908-1938; 19 pp.; correspondence.

Israel Goldberg papers, 1911-1964; 4 boxes; represented.

Industrial Removal Office records, 1899-1922; 50 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Morris Samuel Lazaron papers, 1851-1979; 18.4 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

National Association of Jewish Social Workers records, 1912-1916; ca. 1,000 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Society of Jewish Social Workers records, 1908-1914; 1 box; correspondence.

Elihu David Stone papers, 1914-1952; 11 boxes; finding aid; correspondence concerning Zionism.

Stephen Samuel Wise papers, 1841-1968; 88 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Archives of American Art
Washington, D.C.

Albert Rosenthal papers, 1860-1939; 2 ft.; correspondence.

Brandeis University
Waltham, Mass.

Grady-Brandeis letters, 1917-1929; 3 boxes; correspondence.

Columbia University
New York, N.Y.

Felix Adler papers, 1830-1933; 27 linear ft. (ca. 25,000 items in 65 boxes and 1 oversize folder); finding aid; correspondence.

James Cummings Bonbright papers, 1921-1983; 2 linear ft. (ca. 2,000 items in 4 boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Joseph Dorfman papers, 1890-1983; 40.5 linear ft. (ca. 35,700 items in 88 boxes); correspondence.

Evarts Boutell Greene papers, 1893-1947; ca. 2,316 items (8 boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Robert Lee Hale papers, 1912-1958; ca. 12,525 items (26 boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Milton Handler correspondence, 1927-1978; ca. 400 items; correspondence.

Lewis Levitzki Lorwin papers, 1908-1970; ca. 10,500 items (32 boxes); correspondence.

Frank Tannenbaum papers, 1915-1969; ca. 28,000 items; correspondence.

Thomas Day Thacher papers, 1917-1950; ca. 2,000 items (7 boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y.

Records of the American Association for Labor Legislation; 56 linear ft.; correspondence.

Cornell University
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Ithaca, N.Y.

Records of ad hoc arbitration boards, 1913-1958; 15 boxes; material related to Brandeis`s career as a labor arbitrator.

The Filson Club Historical Society
Louisville, Ky.

Augustus Everett Willson papers, 1865-1921; 13 cubic ft.; correspondence.

Hadassah Women`s Zionist Organization of America
New York, N.Y.

Brandeis collection, 1915-1942; 0.6 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence with Brandeis and material related to the Brandeis Memorial Forest.

Papers of Alice L. Seligsberg and Rose G. Jacobs, 1910-1960; 5 microfilm reels;
correspondence; originals held by Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem.

Henrietta Szold papers, 1875-1982; 13.5 linear ft.; correspondence.

Harvard University Law School
Cambridge, Mass.

Papers of Raoul Berger, 1921-1982; 1.5 linear ft. (ca. 1,500 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Papers of Charles Culp Burlingham, 1876-1960; 9 linear ft. (ca. 8,500 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Papers of Zechariah Chafee, 1898-1957; 50 linear ft. (ca. 22,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Papers of Herbert Brutus Ehrmann, 1906-1970; 14 linear ft. (ca. 5,000 items); finding
aid; correspondence.

Papers of Sheldon Glueck, 1916-1972; 54 linear ft. (ca. 35,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Papers of Erwin N. Griswold, 1930-1978; ca. 100 manuscript boxes; finding aid; represented.

Papers of Learned Hand, 1840-1961; 110 linear ft. (ca. 65,000 items); finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Papers of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1637-1967; 60 linear ft. (ca. 29,000 items); finding aid; correspondence; microfilm copy available.

Papers of Manley Ottmer Hudson, 1894-1960; 66 linear ft. (ca. 48,000 items); finding aid; represented.


Papers of Roscoe Pound, 1888-1964; 128 linear ft. (ca. 80,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Papers of Thomas Reed Powell, 1905-1955; 10 linear ft. (ca. 6,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Papers of Austin Wakeman Scott, 1727-1979; 13 linear ft. (ca. 11,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Superior Court of the Pow Wow briefs, 1871-1885; 4 linear ft. (375 items); finding aid; briefs Brandeis wrote while a law student at Harvard University.

Papers of Ezra Ripley Thayer, 1882-1915; 4 linear ft. (ca. 1,400 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Papers of Charles Warren, 1885-1945; ca. 16 linear ft.; correspondence.

Harvard University School of Business
Baker Library
Boston, Mass.

Henry Lee Higginson business records, 1799-1919; 36 linear ft. (30 vols., 49 boxes, 23 cases); finding aid; restricted; represented.

Louis Edward Kirstein business records, 1909-1942; 34 linear ft. (21 cases, 3 boxes, 79 vols.); finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Thomas William Lamont papers, 1894-1948; 144 linear ft. (286 boxes, 21 vols.); finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Jewish Theological Seminary of America
New York, N.Y.

Bernard Gerson Richards papers, 1903-1960; 5.4 cubic ft.; correspondence.

Herman H. Rubenovitz papers, 1905-1965; 5 cubic ft.; correspondence.

Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.

Charles Joseph Bonaparte papers, 1760-1921; 80,000 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Frederick Dixon papers, 1897-1923; 500 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Walter Lowrie Fisher papers, 1879-1936; 19 ft. (14,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Felix Frankfurter papers, 1846-1966; 106.4 linear ft. (70,625 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Emanuel Alexandrovich Goldenweiser papers, 1919-1952; 3 ft. (ca. 1,500 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Papers of Norman and Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, 1823-1977; 6,000 items; finding aid; correspondence.

John Adams Kingsbury papers, 1840-1960; 51,000 items; finding aid; correspondence.

La Follette family papers, 1844-1988; 611.2 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

James McCauley Landis papers, 1917-1963; 72 ft. (ca. 60,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

George Middleton papers, 1894-1967; 36.6 ft. (ca. 15,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Henry Lewis Stimson papers, 1884-1950; 115,000 items; finding aid; correspondence.

George Sutherland papers, 1850-1944; 4,500 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Willis Van Devanter papers, 1884-1941; 17,000 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Woodrow Wilson papers, 1786-1957; 278,700 items; finding aid; correspondence.

Robert Wickliffe Woolley papers, 1842-1958; 19 ft. (ca. 17,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

Massachusetts Historical Society
Boston, Mass.

Henry Williamson Haynes papers, 1805-1912; 9 boxes; finding aid; correspondence.

George Read Nutter diaries, 1905-1936; 35 vols.; discussion of Brandeis?s confirmation hearing to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Public Franchise League (Boston, Mass.) records, 1900-1919; 2 boxes; correspondence.

Frederic Jesup Stimson papers, 1802-1943; 6 ft.; correspondence.

University of Michigan
Bentley Historical Library
Ann Arbor, Mich.

Henry Carter Adams papers, 1864-1924; 30 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Henry Moore Bates papers, 1886-1950; 5 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Eugene Gressman papers, 1935-1967; 1 ft.; finding aid; restricted; notes of phone conversations between Brandeis and Frank Murphy.

Frank Murphy papers, 1908-1949; 106 linear ft., 39 vols., and 2 oversize folders; finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Isaiah Leo Sharfman papers, 1914-1962; 10 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul, Minn.

Lynn Haines papers, 1909-1931; 61 boxes; represented.

University of Minnesota
Social Welfare History Archives
Minneapolis, Minn.

Paul Underwood Kellogg papers, ca. 1884-1958; 15 ft.; correspondence.

New Hampshire Historical Society
Concord, N.H.

William Eaton Chandler papers, 1829-1917; 22 ft. (ca. 25,000 items); finding aid; correspondence.

New York Public Library
New York, N.Y.

Nicholas Kelley papers, 1870-1967; 67 boxes and 5 packages; correspondence.

Oregon Historical Society
Portland, Or.

Joseph Nathan Teal papers, 1879-1955; 24 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa.

Thornton Oakley collection, 1886-1951; 3 ft.; correspondence.

Princeton University
Princeton, N.J.

Ray Stannard Baker papers, ca. 1905-1939; 18 boxes; finding aid; correspondence.

Alpheus Thomas Mason papers, 1890-1988; 20.2 cubic ft. (28 boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Radcliffe College
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women
Cambridge, Mass.

John Graham Brooks papers, 1845-1938; 2.75 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Dorothy Kirchwey Brown papers, 1857-1981; 22.75 linear ft.; finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Elizabeth Glendower Gardiner Evans papers, 1859-1944; 3.5 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Frieda Segelke Miller papers, 1909-1973; 7 linear ft.; finding aid; restricted; represented.

Hildegard Nagel papers, 1868-1985; 0.5 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence between Brandeis and his sister, Fanny Nagel.

Records of the National Women?s Trade Union League of America, 1904-1950; 3.25 linear ft.; finding aid; represented.

Mary Kenney O`Sullivan papers, 1892-1943; 0.5 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

The Rockefeller Archive Center
North Tarrytown, N.Y.

Alfred Einstein Cohn papers, 1920-1954; 60 cubic ft.; finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum
Hyde Park, N.Y.

Morris Llewellyn Cooke papers, 1910-1954; 102 ft.; correspondence.

Samuel Irving Rosenman papers, 1928-1972; 34 linear ft.; finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Henry Agard Wallace papers, 1941-1945; 41 linear ft.; finding aid; restricted; correspondence; microfilm copy available.

Louis Brandeis Wehle papers, 1877-1958; 41 linear ft.; finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Syracuse University
Department of Special Collections
Syracuse, N.Y.

Harold Joseph Laski papers, 1918-1946; 0.5 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Temple University
Urban Archives Center
Philadelphia, Pa.

Joseph Krauskopf papers, 1885-1923; 27 cubic ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Va.

Papers of John Knox, 1903-1979; 100 items; correspondence.

Alsen Franklin Thomas papers, 1914-1943; ca. 300 items; correspondence.

Wayne State University
Walter P. Reuther Library
Detroit, Mich.

Edward Wieck papers, 1886-1953; 9 linear ft.; finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Madison, Wis.

Irma E. Hochstein papers, 1916-1965; 2 cubic ft. (5 archives boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Philip Fox La Follette papers, 1876-1973; 71 cubic ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

John Mandt Nelson papers, 1897-1977; 4.8 cubic ft. (12 archives boxes); finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Paul A. and Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush papers, 1918-1980; 9.6 cubic ft. (24 archives boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
Laramie, Wyo.

Harry Barnard papers, 1925-1977; 32 ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

J. Lionberger Davis papers, 1895-1968; 0.9 cubic ft. (2 boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Yale University
Sterling Memorial Library
New Haven, Conn.

Edwin Montefiore Borchard papers, 1910-1950; 61 linear ft. (148 boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Jerome New Frank papers, 1918-1972; 104.25 linear ft. (218 boxes, 1 folio, 1 vol.); finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Edward Mandell House papers, 1885-1938; 124.5 linear ft. (331 boxes, 11 folios, 18 vols.); finding aid; correspondence.

William Kent family papers, 1768-1961; 35 linear ft. (85 boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Dwight MacDonald papers, 1865-1984; 84 linear ft. (196 boxes); finding aid; restricted; correspondence.

Henry Lewis Stimson papers, 1846-1966; 154.5 linear ft. (312 boxes, 2 folios, 1 vol.); finding aid; correspondence.

U.S. Railroad Securities Commission records, 1890-1914; ca. 2,000 items; correspondence.

Harry Weinberger papers, 1915-1942; 25 linear ft. (55 boxes, 1 folio); finding aid; correspondence.

Sir William Wiseman papers, 1916-1961; 9.5 linear ft. (22 boxes); finding aid; correspondence.

Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
New York, N.Y.

Horace Meyer Kallen papers, 1922-1952; 21.7 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

Ezekiel Leavitt papers, 1890-1945; ca. 3 linear ft.; finding aid; correspondence.

 

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