LIFE MAGAZINE LOOKS AT THE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL NOVEMBER 1937LIFE was the leading twentieth-century magazine of photo-journalism, appearing weekly from 1936 until 1972. With its familiar logo displaying the title in white sans-serif type against a red rectangular background, the magazine dominated its market with a circulation that eventually reached 13.5 million copies a week. In 2008 Google …
The Harvard Law School Library is pleased to announce the digitization of the Maurice Ettinghausen collection of Ruhleben civilian internment camp papers, 1914-1937. This unique collection, commonly referred to as “Ruhleben,” provides a fascinating insight into the daily life of prisoners at a German World War I camp. Internees around a small building named “La Bohéme.” Grohs, A., …
We couldn’t let 2009 slip by without noting the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Catalogue of the Library of the Law School of Harvard University, otherwise known as the “1909 Catalogue,” a stout, succinct, two volume set that proved so useful a facsimile reprint was published in 1967—and is still in use. The preface to that …
As a newly minted lawyer in the late nineteenth century, what did you need–and how much did it cost–to set yourself up as a solo practitioner in Boston? The Library has recently acquired a lawyer’s manuscript expense book that provides an answer. W. Frederick Kimball (1851 – 1915) practiced law in Boston from 1878 until the beginning of …