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Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904-1971

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1904 - 1971

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Darrow family scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Darrow
Abstract Four scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, school papers and a few pieces of memorabilia. Scrapbooks contain many articles by and about the career of Clarence Darrow; also, some articles referring to Greeley, Colorado, sometime home of Clarence Darrow's son Paul, and a collection of Paul's early school papers. Other clippings are miscellaneous articles about other Darrow family members. Two of the scrapbooks apparently were kept by Clarence Darrow's first wife, Jessie Ohl Darrow, one by her son...
Dates: approximately 1881-1925

Matt Rizzo papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rizzo
Abstract

Typescript essays and a treatise (some in Braille) by Matt Rizzo, Chicago philosopher/writer who was blinded in a robbery at age 22. Collection also includes photo-reproductions of Rizzo with son Charlie and guide dogs, a news clipping about Rizzo's life, audiocassettes of Rizzo dictating parts of his works, a Perkins Brailler, and Rizzo's two Brailling slates with an accompanying stylus for writing Braille.

Dates: approximately 1940s-2002

Robert W. Bergstrom papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Bergstrom
Abstract

Research and legal case files for the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder criminal court proceedings, and the 1959-1970 civil suits of Leopold vs. Meyer Levin et al. over Levin's book Compulsion. Bergstrom represented Levin in the latter case.

Dates: 1924-1999; Majority of material found within 1959-1970

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Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Audiocassettes -- 1951-2000 1
Authors, American -- 20th century 1
Blind -- Printing and writing systems -- Equipment and supplies 1
Blind -- United States 1