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_2lcmd
100 1 _aGertz, Elmer,
_d1906-2000.
245 0 0 _aElmer Gertz papers,
_f1789-1997
_g(bulk 1926-1988).
300 _a168,725
_fitems.
300 _a484
_fcontainers plus
_a4
_foversize.
300 _a1
_fmicrofilm reel.
300 _a193
_flinear feet.
351 _aArranged in 8 series. Series 1: Family Papers, 1926-1991; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1925-1991; Series 3: Legal File, 1905-1992; Series 4: Subject File, 1894, 1903-1990; Series 5: Speeches and Writings File, 1888-1990; Series 6: Miscellany, 1789, 1860-1991; Series 7: Addition, 1921-1997; and Series 8: Oversize, 1957, 1967.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aPersonal, family, and professional correspondence; memoranda, opinions, orders, briefs, writs, motions, petitions, exhibits, transcripts, and other legal papers; speeches, writings, and research material; and subject files, family papers, printed matter, and mss. collected by Gertz. The bulk of the collection (1926-1988) relates to Gertz's career as a lawyer in cases involving censorship, housing, libel, obscenity, capital punishment, copyright issues, and the death penalty and as the author of Frank Harris: A Study in Black and White (1931), Odyssey of a Barbarian: the Biography of George Sylvester Viereck (1979), and other works. Represented in the papers are clients Nathan Freudenthal Leopold in his suit against Meyer Levin, Henry Miller, and Jack Ruby and the case Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
520 8 _aAlso reflected is Gertz's involvement with the Illinois constitutional convention (1969-1970), Chicago Bar Association, Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Chicago Citizens Commission to Study the Disorders of Convention Week (1968 Democratic national convention), the Blind Service Association, Caxton Club, and Decalogue Society of Lawyers. Gertz's interest in such literary and historical figures as James Baldwin, Clarence Darrow, Frank Harris, John F. Kennedy, Henry Miller, Carl Sandburg, Bernard Shaw, and Harry S. Truman is also documented.
520 8 _aCorrespondents include Louis Adamic, George Anastaplo, Allen Crandall, Paul Crump, Richard J. Daley, Richard M. Daley, Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, Paul Howard Douglas, Albert Einstein, Otto Eisenschiml, Eli E. Fink, Sigmund Freud, Theodore G. Gertz, Wayne B. Giampietro, Arthur J. Goldberg, Frank Harris, Margery A. Hechtman, Samuel G. Herman, John F. Kennedy, Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Gene Lovitz, Carey McWilliams, Russ Meyer, Henry Miller, Hesketh Pearson, Muriel Peters, Peter Pollack, Leo Calvin Rosten, Jack Ruby, William F. Ryan, Carl Sandburg, Edward P. Schwartz, Upton Sinclair, Kate Stephens, A. I. Tobin, George Sylvester Viereck, Peter Robert Edwin Viereck, and William W. Witherspoon.
530 _aMicrofilm only of Sigmund Freud's letters to George Sylvester Viereck,
_dno. 13,575.
533 _aMicrofilm.
_bNew York, N.Y. :
_cColumbia University.
535 1 _aLocation of original Freud-Viereck letters is unknown.
544 _3Motion picture films and sound and video recordings
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
544 _3Some photographs and drawings
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
545 0 _aLawyer, author, and manuscript collector. Died 2000.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997015
600 1 0 _aAdamic, Louis,
_d1899-1951
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aAnastaplo, George,
_d1925-
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBaldwin, James,
_d1924-1987.
600 1 0 _aCrandall, Allen,
_d1896-1973
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCrump, Paul
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDaley, Richard J.,
_d1902-1976
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDaley, Richard M.
_q(Richard Michael),
_d1942-
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDarrow, Clarence,
_d1857-1938.
600 1 0 _aDouglas, Alfred Bruce,
_cLord,
_d1870-1945
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDouglas, Paul H.
_q(Paul Howard),
_d1892-1976
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aEinstein, Albert,
_d1879-1955
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aEisenschiml, Otto,
_d1880-1963
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFink, Eli E.,
_d1907-1979
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFreud, Sigmund,
_d1856-1939
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGertz, Theodore G.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGiampietro, Wayne B.
_q(Wayne Bruce),
_d1942-
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGoldberg, Arthur J.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHarris, Frank,
_d1856-1931.
600 1 0 _aHarris, Frank,
_d1856-1931
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHechtman, Margery A.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHerman, Samuel G.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aKennedy, John F.
_q(John Fitzgerald),
_d1917-1963.
600 1 0 _aKennedy, John F.
_q(John Fitzgerald),
_d1917-1963
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLeopold, Nathan Freudenthal,
_d1904-1971.
600 1 0 _aLeopold, Nathan Freudenthal,
_d1904-1971
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLevin, Meyer,
_d1905-1981.
600 1 0 _aLovitz, Gene
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMcWilliams, Carey,
_d1905-1980
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMeyer, Russ,
_d1922-
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMiller, Henry,
_d1891-1980
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPearson, Hesketh,
_d1887-1964
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPeters, Muriel
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPollack, Peter,
_d1909-1978
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRosten, Leo,
_d1908-1997
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRuby, Jack.
600 1 0 _aRuby, Jack
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRyan, William F.,
_d1922-1972
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSandburg, Carl,
_d1878-1967.
600 1 0 _aSandburg, Carl,
_d1878-1967
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSchwartz, Edward P.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aShaw, Bernard,
_d1856-1950.
600 1 0 _aSinclair, Upton,
_d1878-1968
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aStephens, Kate,
_d1853-1938
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTobin, A. I.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTruman, Harry S.,
_d1884-1972.
600 1 0 _aViereck, George Sylvester,
_d1884-1962
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aViereck, Peter,
_d1916-2006
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWitherspoon, William W.
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aBlind Service Association.
610 2 0 _aCaxton Club.
610 2 0 _aChicago Bar Association.
610 2 0 _aChicago Citizens Commission to Study the Disorders of Convention Week.
610 2 0 _aDecalogue Society of Lawyers.
610 2 0 _aIllinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty.
610 1 0 _aIllinois.
_bConstitutional Convention
_d(1969-1970)
610 2 0 _aRobert Welch, Inc.
_xTrials, litigation, etc.
611 2 0 _aDemocratic National Convention
_d(1968 :
_cChicago, Ill.)
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y20th century.
650 0 _aCapital punishment.
650 0 _aCensorship.
650 0 _aCopyright.
650 0 _aHousing.
650 0 _aLibel and slander.
650 0 _aObscenity (Law)
650 0 _aPractice of law
_zIllinois
_zChicago.
656 7 _aAuthors.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aLawyers.
_2itoamc
700 1 2 _aGertz, Elmer,
_d1906-2000.
_tFrank Harris: a study in black and white.
_f1931.
700 1 2 _aGertz, Elmer,
_d1906-2000.
_tOdyssey of a barbarian: the biography of George Sylvester Viereck.
_f1979.
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997015
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997015.3
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_d43520