Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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