Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 1858-1999
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Louis
Dembitz Brandeis
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| Title: |
Collection,
1858-1999
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| Identification: |
MWalB00007 |
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101 linear
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Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special
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Biography
Louis David Brandeis was born in
Louisville, Kentucky, on
November 13, 1856, the youngest of four children to the
first-generation immigrants from Prague, Adolph and Frederika [Dembitz]
Brandeis. Adolph, one of the many Europeans who came to the United States in
the wake of the abortive 1848 Revolutions, eventually prospered in local
business. Brandeis's childhood, with sisters Fanny (b. 1850), Amy (b.1852) and
brother Alfred (b. 1854), was spent in relative comfort. Young Brandeis
excelled in school, earning a gold medal from the Louisville public school
system for excellence in his studies.
In
1872 and in part due to economic misfortunes associated
with Reconstruction and the coming depression, Adolph sold off the Brandeis
business holdings and the family left Louisville for an extended stay in
Europe. While abroad, Brandeis failed at his first go of a European education,
falling short of the admission standards of the
Vienna Gymnasium. For some months thereafter,
Brandeis traveled widely with his father and brother, living for a time in
Switzerland. Attending the
Annen-Realschule in
Dresden, Germany, during the years
1873 to
1875, he performed well enough to garner commendations
from the faculty.
Upon the family's return to America in 1875, Brandeis opted for a
career in law, influenced in part by his uncle
Lewis Dembitz, a noted Louisville attorney (who
served as such a positive role model that Brandeis would later change his
middle name from David to Dembitz). He applied to and was accepted by
Harvard Law School, where he enrolled at the age
of 19, without any prior formal higher education. Brandeis did exceptionally
well in the law program, maintaining an average of 97 in his courses over a
two-year period. Despite Harvard's rule that one must be twenty-one years of
age to obtain a legal degree, Brandeis graduated in
1877 as class valedictorian.
After practicing law briefly in St. Louis with his brother-in-law
James Taussig, Brandeis returned to Boston and
established the firm
Brandeis-Warren in
1879 with a fellow student from Harvard,
Samuel D. Warren. Theirs was a very successful
partnership; the firm soon had attracted both a solid reputation and a
significant client base. For a few years, Brandeis also taught a course on
evidence at the
Harvard Law School and a course on business law at
the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brandeis
would maintain strong ties with Harvard throughout the rest of his career,
notably through his help in initiating and continuing both the
Harvard Law School Association (1886) and the
Harvard Law Review (1889). The latter gave Brandeis the
forum to present what would prove to be one of his greatest contributions to
legal history, the pathbreaking article "
The Right to Privacy," published in
December 1890. After the departure of
Samuel Warren from the firm, Brandeis remained the
senior partner of
Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter until he left for
Washington in
1916.
While in the early years of his career in
Boston, Brandeis developed both the interest and
talent for public advocacy that would color the remainder of his life. The
"people's attorney" began to devote more and more of his professional time to
supporting the cause of the socially and economically disadvantaged. In defense
of groups like those small businessmen hindered by unfair Massachusetts liquor
laws, the paupers on Boston's Long Island, and the
New England Free Trade League, Brandeis began to
articulate the beliefs that would guide him in later life: the preservation of
the individual's right to fair treatment in work and law, and to be "left
alone" by both the forces of government and big business. He also began his
practice of not accepting payment for his legal services in defense of these
causes.
On a visit to Louisville in
1890, Brandeis met
Alice Goldmark (a distant cousin), and began a
brief courtship. They were married on
March 23, 1891 and took residence in Boston. The pair had
two daughters, Susan (b. February 27, 1893) and Elizabeth (b. April 25, 1896).
Until his departure for Washington, the family also maintained a home in the
town of Dedham. The Brandeis family also kept a vacation cottage in the Cape
Cod community of Chatham.
The first decade of the twentieth century found a well-established
Brandeis continuing in his efforts to promote the common good, a practice he
undertook at his own expense, billing himself to compensate his firm for time
spent. One of his first major stands concerned the preservation of municipal
subway systems against the threat of corporate monopoly. With
Edward Filene, Brandeis also formed the
Public Franchise League in
1900, a body instrumental in reaching a compromise in the
fight over the consolidation of Boston area gas and electricity companies. Yet
another chapter in Brandeis's professional growth involved his formulation and
advocacy for a new form of life insurance, more suited to the material
situation of the average worker. Arguing that the Massachusetts system then
administered through insurance companies was grossly inefficient, Brandeis
proposed that savings banks might offer similar services, without unnecessarily
gouging the working person. He would later recall this successful campaign as
his greatest achievement. Within this milieu, Brandeis formulated his identity
as a Progressive. As a means to articulate his ideas, Brandeis reworked the
concept of the legal brief, incorporating information relevant to the social
and economic repercussions of the legal issues in question in addition to the
details of the law itself. In the process he radically altered the fashion in
which lawyers practice their trade. The style of the "Brandeis Brief" first
appeared in
1908 in the case Muller v. Oregon, related to regulating
the number of hours per day that women could be made to work.
Brandeis stepped onto the national stage with his involvement in the
New Haven Railroad merger controversy.
J.P. Morgan sought to consolidate New England rail
lines through a merger of his companies with the
Boston & Maine Railroad. To Brandeis, this
smelled of a monopoly that would ultimately threaten the consumer. From
1905 to
1914 he waged a legal fight to oppose Morgan's efforts in
the region. With support from major magazines and newspapers, like
LaFollette's Weekly and the
Boston American, Brandeis's victory came when the
Interstate Commerce Commission ruled the New Haven's
acquisition of the B & M illegal.
In the years before World War One, Brandeis continued to involve
himself in the legal life of American transportation and labor, putting a finer
point on his public stand against "the curse of bigness" in favor of social and
economic justice. For example, incensed at the tendency of large rail companies
to increase shipping rates without adequate explanation, Brandeis urged for a
new business policy. Taking a cue from the work of
Frederick Taylor and others in the field of
industrial efficiency, he coined the term "scientific management" to describe a
new approach which mandated that managers precisely determine the resources and
time necessary to complete any given business function. The goal in this was
the prevention of unnecessary cost trickling down to the consumer.
His involvement in affairs such as these helped make Brandeis a
household name. Additionally, his active participation in national questions
lent him familiarity and respect in Washington circles. After his support of
Woodrow Wilson's presidential campaign in
1912, Brandeis was selected as the Secretary of Commerce
in the new Cabinet. This news leaked to the press, however, and after an
intense flurry of opposition to this appointment, Wilson opted for a less
politically volatile candidate. Despite this public setback, Brandeis continued
to serve the Wilson presidency in the role of unofficial advisor, most notably
as the designer of Wilson's "New Freedom" legislative reforms.
Brandeis's nomination to the
United States Supreme Court in
1916 marked perhaps the most tumultuous point of his
career. As before, some elements of American society opposed to his Progressive
ideals were outraged at the thought of his gaining more influence. The
confirmation hearings were thus, up until that time, the most highly debated in
American history. He was approved and appointed on June 1, at the age of 59.
With fellow Justice,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Brandeis remained a
strong Liberal voice on the court for the remainder of his tenure, playing a
major role in the creation of
Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and consistently
supporting the causes of free speech, the right to privacy, and the reform of
labor laws.
At first, Brandeis had little interest in organized religion. Though
raised to be a spiritual person, he did not grow up immersed in the Jewish
tradition. He therefore remained distant from his Jewish background for much of
his adult life. His early life in Boston did little to change this perspective.
As he came to occupy more of the public eye, however, Brandeis was subject to
personal attacks, many focusing upon his religious identity. Over time,
Brandeis's involvement with groups such as the Jewish workers involved in the
New York Garment Strike of
1910 also increased his awareness of the needs of the
Jewish community. Through this heightened concern for American Jewry, and
through contacts with people such as
Jacob de Haas, Brandeis took an interest in
Zionism and soon became an ardent supporter, and then an internationally
recognized leader of the movement. Elected Chair of the
Provisional Committee for General Zionist Affairs
in
1914, Brandeis revitalized the American movement with new
leadership strategies, public appearances and popular publications like
"The Jewish Problem: How to Solve It." Despite the limits
placed upon his actions by his official status as a Supreme Court Justice,
after
1916 he continued to act privately to support the Zionist
cause. With the end of the First World War, Brandeis realized the time was ripe
for movement. He sent several delegates to the
Paris Peace Conferences, including de Haas and
Felix Frankfurter, to help urge the creation of a
Jewish homeland in
Palestine. Brandeis himself traveled to
Paris and then to the
Middle East during the summer of
1919. Despite disputes with the newly formed
World Zionist Organization, Brandeis remained a
presence in the movement for the rest of his life.
After twenty-three years of service on the Court and seeing his own
daughter, Susan, argue cases before it, Brandeis elected to resign in
1939 at the age of 82. Spending much of his remaining
years at the vacation home in Chatham, he continued to correspond with and
advise many influential people of the time. He succumbed to a heart attack and
died in
Washington, D.C., on
October 5, 1941. His wife, Alice, followed four years
later, on Oct 12.
Baskerville, Stephen. Of Laws and Limitations: An Intellectual
Portrait of Louis Dembitz Brandeis. 1994.Gal, Allon. Brandeis of Boston. 1980.Paper, Louis, Brandeis: An Intimate Portrait of One of
America's Truly Great Supreme Court Justices. 1983.Strum, Philippa. Louis D. Brandeis: Justice for the People.
1984.
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Scope and Content
The Brandeis collection consists of approximately 101 linear ft. of
material. In addition to providing a rich resource for those interested in both
the personal and public lives of
Louis D. Brandeis, this collection offers a wealth
of material on American legal history in general, the Progressive and Zionist
movements, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the foundation and early years of
Brandeis University. The correspondence and personal effects of
Susan Brandeis Gilbert have also been integrated
into the collection, as have the Hapgood,
Burton C. Bernard, and Grady-Brandeis
correspondence collections.
The collection is dominated by Brandeis's correspondence. As a whole,
these letters provide unique insight into the relationships Brandeis maintained
with his wife, Alice, and children, Susan and Elizabeth. A committed
correspondent, Brandeis wrote many letters daily, generally brief and
pragmatic, but often also containing interesting observations on the events of
the day. Many copies of Brandeis's letters held in other archives are also
included here. The collection also has a sizeable amount of his official
correspondence, providing a rich perspective on the history of American Zionism
and the various social and economic causes to which the Justice devoted his
time and effort.
Brandeis's family is also well-represented in the collection. Their
letters help to provide a more complete picture of the personal life of
Brandeis. In addition to the letters she wrote to Brandeis and her family, the
Alice Brandeis files contain a small but
interesting set of documents on the Brandeis household, as well as a large set
of condolence letters she received in
1941 on the death of Brandeis. The letters of
Susan Brandeis and her husband
Jacob Gilbert offer insights into their own
activities in American Zionism and the creation of
Brandeis University. The files on
Elizabeth Brandeis and her husband
Paul Raushenbush are few, but do also help one to
better grasp the tone and history of the Brandeis family.
The Brandeis collection also houses a large number of publications
containing writings of Brandeis, as well as those about or of interest to him.
The concentration of these materials in one location provides a broad and
useful survey of Brandeis's intellectual development along with the reception
accorded him by the media of his day.
The early records of
Louis Brandeis consist exclusively of his
notebooks from Louisville, Dresden, and Harvard Law School. Many are dry
recordings of lectures, though some of the European notes contain brief
comments on his travels while abroad in the early 1870s. The legal notebooks
and annotated law books may contain information very useful to those interested
in his formative legal period.
The collection holds some of Brandeis's personal financial documents.
In addition to several accounting books from the later years of his life, there
are the nearly complete records of his business correspondence and accounting
records, as prepared by the firm of
Nutter, McClennen and Fish in Boston. These
records run from
1910 through
1941.
The collection also contains several sets of material produced by
biographers and bibliographers of Brandeis. Particularly well documented is the
project to microfilm his public papers, undertaken by Brandeis University.
Biographies by
Alden Todd and
Alfred Lief are also present. These sets of
material present a valuable condensed body of information about the
Justice.
The newsclippings catalogued in the Brandeis collection document the
major events in the lives of Louis and Alice Brandeis and their children. They
are an excellent source for information on the major historical events and
movements experienced by the Brandeis family.
Consisting primarily of portraits of Brandeis and vacation photographs
of his family on Cape Cod, the Brandeis photograph collection provides a richly
detailed portrait of the Justice's personal life. The majority of photographs
document his later life, though there are images of his parents, brother Alfred
and his childhood in Louisville. Close associates, such as
Alice Grady and E
lizabeth G. Evans, also appear in this collection.
The addition of the family photos of
Susan Brandeis to this collection presents a
visual history of the founding and early years of Brandeis University.
In addition, the collection houses a large number of other items,
including political cartoons, audio recordings, ceremonial items given to
Brandeis and his family, and the books from his personal office library.
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Cataloging Entries
The following catalog entries provide controlled subject access to the
collection. All these entries are searchable in the Brandeis University
libraries' on-line catalog LOUIS to find materials of related interest.
Zionism--United
States--Correspondence.
Judges--United
States.
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz,
1856-1941--Archives.
Brandeis, Alice
Goldmark--Correspondence.
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Series Description
Series I.
Correspondence
This series is divided into 6 subseries and consists primarily of
correspondence to and from
Louis D. Brandeis and his immediate and
extended family. It is the second largest in the entire collection. The
majority of this series consists of letters to his wife, Alice, and his
daughters
Susan Brandeis Gilbert and
Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush. This series
additionally holds several subject collections which document his
communications with individuals, like
Norman Hapgood,
Bernard Flexner, and his former secretary and
major figure in the history of
Savings Bank Life Insurance,
Alice H. Grady, as well as groups, like
Survey Associates and a variety of individuals
associated with the Zionist movement, such as
Jacob de Haas,
Alexander Sachs, and
Chaim Weizmann. This set also contains many
birthday greetings sent to the Justice in his later life. The last item in
Brandeis's correspondence is a small collection of his letters that have been
transcribed (most likely by his son-in-law,
Jacob Gilbert). The Brandeis collection
correspondence organization varies by subseries; refer to the container list
for further information.
This series also includes letters to and from
Alice Brandeis, as well as a variety of
personal material belonging to her, including copies in English and German of
the reminiscences of
Frederika Brandeis [Louis' mother] translated
by Alice, a diary on the infancy of
Susan Brandeis, newsclippings, recipes,
appointment calendars and household receipts. There are also several boxes of
letters of condolence Alice received upon the death of
Louis Brandeis.
The personal correspondence and papers of
Susan Brandeis are also well represented in
this series. In addition to personal and official letters, this series holds
many copies of Susan's own legal briefs and other publications, newsclippings,
as well as a variety of material related to the founding of the
Brandeis Memorial Foundation and
Brandeis University. This series also briefly
documents the correspondence, publications, and memorabilia of other members of
the Gilbert family, including her husband
Jacob Gilbert and their three children: Louis,
Alice, and Frank. Photographs of the Gilbert family originally accompanying
these papers have been moved to Series 7: The Photograph Collection. There are
also a number of legal publications from the law offices of Jacob and Susan
Brandeis Gilbert.
There is a small amount of correspondence and assorted
publications associated with
Elizabeth Brandeis, her husband
Paul Raushenbush, and their son, Walter. In
addition to family correspondence, much of this deals with their combined
efforts involving employment insurance in Wisconsin.
The correspondence series, organized chronologically, also
contains the Burton C. Bernard Collection on Brandeis's sister,
Fannie Brandeis Nagel. This includes copies of
letters between
Charles Nagel and
Louis Brandeis, as well as from Brandeis to
his brother Alfred, during the later nineteenth century. In addition, Bernard's
notes on his efforts to discover more about the Louisville branch of the
Brandeis family are preserved here, along with a few photographs and his
personal correspondence with archives, authors, and
Brandeis University.
There is a small group of letters from persons outside the
Brandeis family included in this series, organized alphabetically by
sender.
Series II.
Publications
The first set of these materials, Brandeis's own published
writings, provides a useful guide to his public commitments throughout the
course of his career. Titles represented in this series include
Collier's,
Harper's Weekly,
Harvard Law Review, and
Outlook. This series also includes a large number of
Brandeis's legal publications, as well as a variety of pamphlets he authored on
topics including Savings Bank Life Insurance, Zionism, Americanism, labor
relations and business practice. Many drafts and fragments by Brandeis are also
preserved in this collection.
This series also includes a large amount of published material on
Brandeis. Again, this information offers an interesting perspective on the
praise and criticism he received as a public man. Especially well represented
are speeches about him, as well as Jewish and memorial publications. The
thoughts of numerous Brandeis's colleagues and contemporaries emerge in these
documents, including those of
Felix Frankfurter,
Bernard Flexner, and
Jacob Gilbert.
This series also houses a very large number of periodicals, legal
documents, and pamphlets of interest to Justice Brandeis. Many are from his
personal library and bear his signature. Subjects represented here include:
Savings Bank Life Insurance, Zionism, U.S. Supreme Court, Massachusetts
government documents, U.S. transportation, Labor History, and writings of the
friends and family of the Justice. The stenographic minutes recording the
Interstate Commerce Commission hearings on the
New Haven Railroad controversy provide very
rich detail on these proceedings, as do are the complete recorded testimony of
a case Brandeis argued in
1898 and a set of documents from the railroad merger
controversy.
Series III.
Early Years
This relatively brief series provides some documentation on the
education of Brandeis. These materials are arranged chronologically. There is
scant material on the Justice's Louisville education, but many of his notebooks
from his education in
Germany survive here. Most of these are in
German; one contains several brief diary entries and sketches recording his
European travels. This series also houses notebooks and annotated law books
from his time at
Harvard Law School as well as the notes
Brandeis used while compiling his course on Evidence taught at Harvard Law.
Series IV.
Financial Records
This series gives an account of the Brandeis family finances. In
addition to a number of his account books (most from the later part of
Brandeis's life), this series holds extensive correspondence from
E. Louise Malloch of the Boston firm
Nutter, McClennen and Fish, which managed
Brandeis's financial accounts. In addition to the desiderata of Brandeis's
investment portfolio, tax returns, and other financial documents, these papers
record the often substantial generosity Brandeis showed toward a number of
charitable and political organizations. These materials are organized
chronologically and divided into Financial Records and Business
Correspondence.
Series V.
Biographical Material
This series contains several sets of material about the life of
Louis Brandeis. The first set of this series
documents the project to microfilm the public papers of Brandeis.
Brandeis University undertook this project
under the guidance of Professor
William Goldsmith and Chancellor
Abram Sachar. In addition to internal
University memoranda related to the administration of the project running from
the 1960s through 1970s, this set also houses original documents or copies of
materials which appeared in the final microfilm edition. These materials are
sorted by document number as they appeared in microfilm. This series also
includes a set of proposed documents on Brandeis and Zionism which were not
included in the microfilm edition.
The second set of materials consists of copies of correspondence
held in the Brandeis collection at the
University of Louisville Law School. These
photostat copies primarily document Brandeis's relationship with his family,
especially that with his father, Adolph, and brother, Alfred. They provide
information about the early life of Justice Brandeis not readily available in
other portions of the collection.
The third set of materials consists of the correspondence, notes,
and assorted drafts related to the writing of the biography
Justice on Trial by
Alden Todd and published in
1964. This book tells the story of the
1916 confirmation hearings on the nomination of Brandeis
to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
The fourth set documents the biography,
Brandeis: Personal History of an American Ideal, by
Alfred Lief, published in
1936. This set contains Lief's notes and drafts of the
project, as well as reviews of the book, and a substantial set of newsclippings
on Brandeis and the issues that concerned him.
The fifth set contains material written by or concerning Brandeis's
lifelong friend,
Elizabeth Glendower Evans ["Bess"]: her
correspondence, and the notes and articles she wrote on Brandeis.
Series VI.
Newsclippings
This series includes a large number of newspaper clippings of
Brandeis and his family. They are organized chronologically and partially
grouped by theme. One of the richest items in the collection, these files
provide a detailed history of the telling moments in the Justice's public life.
Elizabeth and
Susan Brandeis are also well represented in
this file.
Series VII.
Photographs
This series consists of photographs from Brandeis's personal and
public lives. They are organized first by size, and then by subject in each
container. Unidentified photographs are grouped together. Several framed
portraits of the Justice also hang in the Brandeis Room of the Goldfarb
Library.
The single largest subjects grouping in this series are portraits
and informal photographs of
Justice Brandeis from all phases of his life.
Photos of the Brandeis family vacationing at
Chatham, Cape Cod are very common, as are
those documenting the life of
Susan Brandeis. Close associates of the
Justice, such as
Alice Grady,
Elizabeth G. Evans and
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., also appear in
this collection. Several albums document specific events and family trips.
There is also a scrapbook presented to Brandeis by the Jewish women's group,
Hadassah, and two albums from the
Ein Hashofet Kibbutz in
Israel. The early history of Brandeis
University emerges through the photo documentation of
Susan Brandeis's and
Jacob Gilbert's involvement with the
university's creation and promotion through the
1960s. In addition to photographs of Susan and Jacob,
this collection also documents other notable figures involved in this process,
including
Eleanor Roosevelt,
Abram L. Sachar and
Harry S. Truman.
Series VIII.
Other Media
This series contains other media associated with Justice Brandeis.
The first set includes several original political cartoons, lampooning many
events during the
Woodrow Wilson presidency, including: the
controversy over the
New Haven Railroad merger in which Brandeis
participated, international relations, and Wilson's personal character.
This series also contains several sets of phonograph records,
documenting a 90th birthday party for
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the Brandeis
University Alma Mater
"Brandeis Hail to Thee", and
Louis Brandeis's 80th birthday party.
There are a small number of reel-to-reel audiotapes documenting:
Abram Sachar's speech at the 600th anniversary
of the
University of Vienna in
1965, a speech given at
Brandeis University by
Adlai Stevenson in
1961, the dedication of the Brandeis Room at the
University of Louisville Law School in
1959, and a conference held at the
University of Louisville in
1956.
Series IX.
Tributes to Brandeis & Family
The various items in this series pay tribute to
Louis Brandeis and his family. They include:
the blueprints for the Brandeis plaque and mausoleum at the
University of Louisville Law School, posters
from several exhibitions on Brandeis's life and work, centennial tributes from
the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a plaque
presented to his family on the centennial of his birthday, a memorial plaque
for
Jacob Gilbert, and sheet music by
Samuel Borofsky and
Moe Jaffe.
Series X.
Series 10: Illustrated and Three-dimensional
Materials
This series holds a variety of other interesting items, including
a map of Palestine and a genealogical chart for the Wehle [Brandeis's maternal]
lineage. The death masks of Louis and Alice Brandeis are also in this series,
as are their last wills and estate documents. Several items belonging to Susan
Brandeis Gilbert are included here, including her college and law school
diplomas. Additional items are sorted alphabetically. Of note are a set of
documents on the legal battles around film censorship in Chicago, a set of
Zionist postcards, publications unrelated to Brandeis, and several calling
cards from the Brandeis family and others.
This series also contains the records of correspondence between
individuals and the Brandeis University administration and library staff
regarding the donations of Brandeis memorabilia to the collection. These items
are stored chronologically.
Series XI.
Items from the Brandeis Personal Library
Housed in the Brandeis room of the Goldfarb Library, this series
includes a large number of books either about Brandeis or from his personal
collection. They are organized alphabetically by author. There is also a bound
set of
LaFollette's Weekly (1909-1929) that contains a number
of articles written by or concerning Justice Brandeis, and a run of the Boston
journal
Green Bag. Materials are shelved alphabetically. For a
shelf list, refer to the Container List.
Those interested in the Brandeis collection should also consult
the following related collections in the Brandeis University Library:
The public papers of Louis Dembitz Brandeis in the Jacob and
Bertha Goldfarb Library of Brandeis University The papers of Louis Dembitz Brandeis at the University of
LouisvilleWilliam Goldsmith papers, Brandeis University Archives.
Goldsmith played a key role in the project to microfilm the public papers of
Louis Brandeis. Zionist Archives and Library (New York), Materials relating to
Zionism: from the papers of Louis D. Brandeis. Microfilm collectionCentral Zionist Archives, Justice Brandeis Records. Microfilm
collection. Judaica Department.
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Container List
| Series 1: |
| Correspondence |
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Subseries I:
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Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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| carton I.I.a.1. |
To Louis D. Brandeis: A - Coc. |
| carton I.I.a.2. |
To Louis D. Brandeis: Col - Kap. |
| carton I.I.a.3. |
To Louis D. Brandeis: Kar - O. |
| carton I.I.a.4. |
To Louis D. Brandeis: Ob - Web. |
| carton I.I.a.5. |
To Louis D. Brandeis: Weh - Z . |
| box I.I.b.1. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Alice G. Brandeis.
1872 - 1904.
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| box I.I.b.2. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Alice G. Brandeis.
1905 - 1907.
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| box I.I.b.3. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Alice G. Brandeis.
1908 - April 1910.
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| box I.I.b.4. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Alice G. Brandeis.
May 1910 - Oct 1911.
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| box I.I.b.5. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Alice G. Brandeis.
Nov 1911 - Nov 1913.
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| box I.I.b.6. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Alice G. Brandeis.
Dec 1913 - 1914.
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| box I.I.b.7. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Alice G. Brandeis.
1915 - 1917.
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| box I.I.b.8. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Alice G. Brandeis.
1918 - 1937.
|
| box I.I.b.9. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Alice G. Brandeis.
no date.
|
| box I.I.b.10. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Alice G. Brandeis.
no date.
|
| box I.I.c.1. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Susan Brandeis.
1906 - April 1924.
|
| box I.I.c.2. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Susan Brandeis.
June 1924 - June 1925.
|
| box I.I.c.3. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Susan Brandeis.
July 1925 - March 1926.
|
| box I.I.c.4. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Susan Brandeis.
April 1926 - Dec 1926.
|
| box I.I.c.5. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Susan Brandeis.
Jan 1927 - June 1927.
|
| box I.I.c.6. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Susan Brandeis.
July 1927 - May 1928.
|
| box I.I.c.7. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Susan Brandeis.
June 1928 - June 1929.
|
| box I.I.c.8. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Susan Brandeis.
July 1929 - 1940 & no date.
|
| box I.I.d.1.a. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Elizabeth Brandeis.
1900 - 1926 & no date.
|
| box I.I.d.1.b. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Susan and Jacob Gilbert
1913 - 1941.
|
| box I.I.e.1. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Jacob Gilbert.
1910 - 1930.
|
| box I.I.e.2. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Jacob Gilbert.
1931 - 1933.
|
| box I.I.e.3. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Jacob Gilbert.
1939 - 1941 & no date.
|
| carton I.I.f.1. |
Louis D. Brandeis with other family. |
| box I.I.g.1. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Others, A - Hi |
| box I.I.g.2. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Others, Ho - Wi |
| box I.I.g.3. |
Louis D. Brandeis to Others, Wi - Z |
| carton I.I.h.1a. |
Louis D. Brandeis - Zionist Correspondence.
1916 - 1922.
|
| carton I.I.h.1b. |
Louis D. Brandeis - Zionist Correspondence.
1923 - 1941.
|
| carton I.I.h.2. |
Louis D. Brandeis - Survey Associates.
1912 - 1941.
|
| carton I.I.h.3. |
Louis D. Brandeis - Bernard Flexner |
| box I.I.h.4. |
Louis D. Brandeis - Norman Hapgood
Collection
|
| box I.I.h.5a. |
Grady - Brandeis Correspondence.
1917 -1927.
|
| box I.I.h.5b. |
Grady - Brandeis Correspondence.
1928.
|
| box I.I.h.5c. |
Grady - Brandeis Correspondence.
1929.
|
| box I.I.i.1. |
Louis D. Brandeis, transcribed
correspondence.
|
| carton I.I.j.1. |
Birthday Greetings: 70th birthday & other
birthdays.
1916 - 1926.
|
| carton I.I.j.2. |
Birthday Greetings: 84th birthday. |
|
Subseries 2:
|
|
Alice G. Brandeis
|
| carton I.II.a.1. |
Alice Brandeis with family: A - AGB. |
| carton I.II.a.2. |
Alice Brandeis with family: AGB - LDB. |
| carton I.II.a.3. |
Alice Brandeis with family: Gilbert - no
date.
|
| carton I.II.b.1. |
Alice Brandeis - Friends & Official: A -
M.
|
| carton I.II.b.2. |
Alice Brandeis - Friends & Official: N -
Z.
|
| carton I.II.c.1. |
Alice Brandeis - Assorted Personal
Materials.
|
| carton I.II.d.1. |
To Alice Brandeis on death of Louis D. Brandeis: A -
Gu.
|
| carton I.II.d.2. |
To Alice Brandeis on death of Louis D. Brandeis: H -
P.
|
| carton I.II.d.3. |
To Alice Brandeis on death of Louis D. Brandeis: Q-Z.
|
|
Subseries 3:
|
|
Susan Brandeis Gilbert
|
| carton I.III.a.1. |
To Susan Brandeis Gilbert: A - Z. |
| carton I.III.b.1. |
From Susan Brandeis Gilbert &
miscellaneous.
|
| box I.III.b.2. |
Susan Brandeis Gilbert miscellaneous. |
| carton I.III.c.1. |
Gilbert Family Records and Jacob Gilbert
correspondence.
|
| carton I.III.d.1. |
Publications from the Gilbert Law Offices. |
| carton I.III.d.2. |
Publications from the Gilbert Law Offices. |
|
Subseries 4:
|
|
Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush
|
| box I.IV.a.1. |
Personal documents and correspondence. |
|
Burton C. Bernard Archive on Fannie Brandeis
|
| box I.V.a.1. |
Correspondence.
1880 - 1889.
|
| box I.V.a.2. |
Correspondence.
1900 - 1969.
|
| box I.V.a.3. |
Correspondence.
1970 - 1979.
|
| box I.V.a.4. |
Correspondence.
1980 - 1985.
|
|
Nonfamily correspondence
|
| Series II: |
| Publications |
|
Subseries 1:
|
|
Authored by Louis D. Brandeis
|
| box II.I.a.1. |
Publications by Louis D. Brandeis: A - D. |
| box II.I.a.2. |
Publications by Louis D. Brandeis: E - Je (1938).
|
| box II.I.a.3. |
Publications by Louis D. Brandeis: Je (1939) - Ne.
|
| box II.I.a.4. |
Publications by Louis D. Brandeis: No - St (1913).
|
| box II.I.a.5. |
Publications by Louis D. Brandeis: St (1914) - Z.
|
| box II.I.b.1. |
Drafts and Notes by Louis D. Brandeis: A - Z.
|
| box II.I.c.1. |
Notes: New England Mortgage Security Co. versus
Brewster et al (1898).
|
|
Subseries 2:
|
|
About Louis D. Brandeis
|
| carton II.II.a.1. |
Publications about Louis D. Brandeis: A - Fa.
|
| carton II.II.a.2. |
Publications about Louis D. Brandeis: Fl - J.
|
| carton II.II.a.3. |
Publications about Louis D. Brandeis: K - O.
|
| carton II.II.a.4. |
Publications about Louis D. Brandeis: P - Z.
|
| box II.II.b.1. |
Drafts and Notes about Louis D. Brandeis. |
| box II.II.b.2. |
Drafts and Notes about Louis D. Brandeis. |
| box II.II.c.1. |
Essays about Louis D. Brandeis. |
|
Subseries 3:
|
|
Of Interest to Louis D. Brandeis
|
| carton II.III.a.1. |
A - American Inst. |
| carton II.III.a.2. |
American Labor - Boston C |
| carton II.III.a.3. |
Boston Fed - By. |
| carton II.III.a.5. |
D - F. |
| carton II.III.a.6. |
G - Jones. |
| carton II.III.a.7. |
Journal - Le. |
| carton II.III.a.8. |
Li - Mass. Ab. 1899. |
| carton II.III.a.9. |
Mass. Ab. 1900 - Mass. Harbor 1889. |
| carton II.III.a.10. |
Mass. Harbor 1893 - Mass. Tax 1884. |
| carton II.III.a.11. |
Mass. Tax 1887 - 1905. |
| carton II.III.a.12. |
Mass. Tax 1906 - Mor. |
| carton II.III.a.13. |
Morris - New York M. |
| carton II.III.a.14. |
New York Public - Philadelphia. |
| carton II.III.a.15. |
Pi - Sm. |
| carton II.III.a.16. |
Sn - U.S. Attorney. |
| carton II.III.a.17. |
U.S. B - U.S. District. |
| carton II.III.a.18. |
U.S. Fed - U.S. Senate 1910. |
| carton II.III.a.19. |
U.S. Senate 1911 - U.S. Supreme Court 1922.
|
| carton II.III.a.20. |
U.S. Supreme Court 1923 - Wo. |
| carton II.III.b.1. |
Stenographic Minutes before the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
|
| carton II.III.b.2. |
Stenographic Minutes before the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
|
| carton II.III.b.3. |
Stenographic Minutes before the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
|
| carton II.III.c.1. |
Miscellaneous Legal Texts and Government Documents.
|
| carton II.III.c.2. |
Miscellaneous Legal Texts and Government Documents.
|
| carton II.III.c.3. |
Miscellaneous Legal Texts and Government Documents.
|
| carton II.III.c.4. |
Miscellaneous Legal Texts and Government Documents.
|
| carton II.III.c.5. |
Miscellaneous Legal Texts and Government Documents.
|
| box II.III.d.1. |
Notes and Documents: Railroad Merger Cases.
|
| box II.III.d.2. |
Notes and Documents: Railroad Merger Cases.
|
|
Subseries 4:
|
|
Oversize Publications
|
| box II.IV.a.1. |
Two issues of Jewish Advocate centennial issue on
Brandeis.
November 8, 1956
|
| box II.IV.a.2. |
Jewish Advocate.
November 26, 1956
|
| box II.IV.b.2. |
Louis D. Brandeis, On Maintaining Makers'
Prices,
Harper's Weekly, v.57, no.2947.
June 14, 1913, p. 6.
|
| box II.IV.b.3. |
Louis D. Brandeis, Trusts, Efficiency, and
the New Party,
Collier's Weekly.
September 14, 1912, pp14 - 15.
|
| box I.IV.c.1. |
Additional oversize material. |
| Series 3: |
| Early Years and Education |
| carton III.I.a.1. |
School Notebooks. |
| carton III.I.a.2. |
School Notebooks. |
| box III.I.b.1. |
Notes on Evidence, Harvard Law School. |
| Series 4: |
| Financial Records |
| box IV.I.a.1. |
Account & Checking Books. |
| carton IV.I.b.1. |
Brandeis financial papers.
1910 - 1922.
|
| carton IV.I.b.2. |
Brandeis financial papers.
1923 - 1931.
|
| carton IV.I.b.3. |
Brandeis financial papers.
1932 - 1941.
|
| Series 5: |
| Biographical Material |
|
Project to Microfilm the Public Papers of Louis D.
Brandeis
|
| carton V.I.a.1-6. |
Materials pertaining to the microfilming. |
|
Subseries 2:
|
|
Brandeis papers at the University of Louisville Law
School
|
| carton V.II.a.1. |
Family Correspondence. |
|
Subseries 3:
|
|
Biographies of Brandeis
|
| carton V.III.a.1. |
Alden Todd biography,
Justice on Trial (1964)
|
| carton V.III.b.1-2. |
Alfred Lief biography,
Brandeis: A Personal History of an American
Ideal (1936)
|
|
Subseries 4:
|
|
Elizabeth Glendower Evans
|
| Newsclippings |
| box VI.I.a.1 |
newsclippings. |
| Series 7: |
| Photographs |
| box VII.I.d.1. |
Large photos. |
| carton VII.I.e.1. |
Unidentified photos. |
| carton VII.I.f.1. |
Albums. |
| box VII.I.g.1. |
2 8 x 10 glass negatives. |
| box VII.I.h.1. |
Brandeis Camp Institute 10th Anniversary. |
| box VII.I.i.1. |
Brandeis family collages |
| Series 8: |
| Other Media |
|
Subseries 1:
|
|
Political Cartoons from the Wilson era
|
| oversize VIII.I.a.1. |
Der Voice of der People [nd] |
| oversize VIII.I.a.2. |
Wilson - Real Administrative Ability
[1912]
|
| oversize VIII.I.a.3. |
"I Have Stood All I'm Going to from You Boys!"
[nd]
|
| oversize VIII.I.a.4. |
"Never Mind the Handshaking Mr. President - Just a
Word of Welcome!"
|
| oversize VIII.I.a.5. |
Harding at the White House [1920?] |
| oversize VIII.I.a.6. |
"Mr. Brandeis Asks a Question of VP Horne" [nd]
|
| oversize VIII.I.a.7. |
"'Citizen' Brandeis Doubted the 'Citizenship'
Credentials of'Ex Counsel' for the New Haven, Charles F. Choate" [nd]
|
| oversize VIII.I.a.8. |
"Mr. Brandeis Cross-Examining" [nd] |
| oversize VIII.I.a.9. |
"Everybody Loves a Lover", "Fails in the Harvard
Phrenology Test", "Expert Advice" , "On the Scent", "The Roughun and the Tiger
Bury the Hatchet", "The Medical College Cat Burglars are Abroad" [nd]
|
| oversize VIII.I.a.10. |
"Santa Wilson" en route to United States
[nd]
|
|
Subseries 2:
|
|
Phonograph Records
|
| phonodisc VIII.II.a. |
"Brandeis Hail to Thee" [Brandeis University Alma
Mater] by
Moe Jaffe.
|
| phonodisc VIII.II.b. |
Report on Savings Bank Life Insurance in New York
State, [Nutter, McClennen & Fish],
ca. 1943.See also VIII.II.f for CD copy of
this item.
|
| phonodisc VIII.II.c.1-4 |
"Open for Discussion" WBZ |
| phonodisc VIII.II.d. |
Broadcast by
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 90th
birthday:
March 8, 1931
|
| phonodisc VIII.II.e.1-20 |
Louis D. Brandeis 80th Birthday Party. Ford Hall
Forum, 1936. Side 1:
Dr. George W. Coleman.Side 3:
Prof. Felix Frankfurter,
Bernard Rothwell.Side 2:
Dr. George W. Coleman.Side 4:
Bernard J. Rothwell.Side 5:
Bernard J. Rothwell. Side 7:
Lincoln Filene.Side 6:
Lincoln Filene.Side 8:
Felix Frankfurter.Side 9-13:
Felix Frankfurter reading letters. Side
14:
Felix Frankfurter. Side 15-18:
Miss Fola La Follette.Side 19:
Miss Fola La Follette,
Felix Frankfurter. Side 20:
Felix Frankfurter,
Ex-Gov. John G. Winant. Side 21-23:
Ex-Gov John G. Winant. Side 24:
Introducing Rabbi Wise,
Rabbi Stephen J. Wise. Side 25-33:
Rabbi Stephen J. Wise. Side 34-40:
Illegible. See also VIII.II.f for CD copy of this item.
|
| phonodisc VIII.II.f. |
CD copies of VIII.II.b and VIII.II.e. |
|
Subseries 3:
|
|
Audiotapes
|
| box VIII.III.a.1 |
one box of tapes. |
| Series 9: |
| Tributes to Brandeis |
| oversize IX.I.a. |
Blueprint for Brandeis plaque,
University of Louisville Law School
|
| oversize IX.I.b. |
Blueprint for the Mausoleum of Louis and Alice Brandeis,
University of Louisville Law
School.
|
| oversize IX.I.c. |
Poster: "The Legacy of Louis D. Brandeis." Exhibit held
at
Brandeis University,
October 3, 1991.
|
| oversize IX.I.d. |
Promotional Materials for "A Life Well Spent" exhibit.
Harvard Law School Library,
September 6, 1994 - January 8,
1995.
|
| oversize IX.I.e. |
Plaque. "A Loving and Reverend Tribute on the Centennial
Anniversary of Brandeis's Birth."
|
| oversize IX.I.f. |
Tribute from the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts.
|
| oversize IX.I.g. |
Tribute from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with the
signatory quill pen.
|
| oversize IX.I.h. |
Sheet music. "Marching on to Zion" by
Samuel H. Borofsky. Dedicated to
Brandeis.
|
| oversize IX.I.i. |
Plaque. Memorial to
Jacob Gilbert.
|
| oversize IX.I.j. |
Plaque. Memorial to
Jacob Gilbert.
|
| oversize IX.I.k. |
Scroll. Given to Brandeis by the City of Jerusalem. |
Housed in Vault.
| oversize IX.I.l. |
Pewter Relief Portrait of Brandeis. No date. |
Housed in Brandeis Room, Goldfarb Library.
| oversize IX.I.m. |
Certificate of tribute to Brandeis from the Golden Book
of the Jewish National Fund.
|
| oversize IX.I.n. |
Poster: "The Peoples' Attorney: The Life of Louis D.
Brandeis, 1856-1941." Exhibit held at
Goldfarb Library. Brandeis University,
Fall, 1999.
|
| Series 10: |
| Illustrated and Three-dimensional Materials |
|
Subseries 1:
|
|
Funeral Moulds
|
| carton X.I.a.1. |
Death Mask,
Alice Brandeis.
|
| carton X.I.b.1. |
Death Mask and hand,
Louis Brandeis
|
| carton X.I.c.1. |
Death Masks (2),
Louis Brandeis.
|
|
Subseries 2:
|
|
Other Materials
|
| oversize X.II.a. |
Susan Brandeis - 4 diplomas. |
| oversize X.II.b. |
Map - Erez Israel. |
| oversize X.II.c. |
Wehle family genealogical chart.
June 1, 1898.
|
| oversize X.II.d.1-3 |
Assorted Items. |
| carton X.II.e. |
Last Will and Testament, Louis and Alice Brandeis.
|
| carton X.II.f. |
Pants and Trousers belonging to Brandeis. |
| oversize X.II.g.1. |
Tepper portrait of Brandeis. |
| box X.II.g.2. |
Dinner plates. |
|
Subseries 3:
|
|
Donor Files
|
| X.III.a.1. |
Correspondence between donors and Brandeis University Administration and Special Collections.
|
| Series 11: |
| Items from the Brandeis Personal Library |
|
Addison-Brandeis Collection
Books from the Brandeis personal library
|
A list of books in this collection is available in the Special
Collections Department. |
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