Darrow, Clarence
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1857 - 1938
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Agnes Lee-Edgar Lee Masters Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lee
Abstract
35 letters from Edgar Lee Masters to Agnes Lee (Mrs. Otto Freer), one typed poem and one galley sheet.
Dates:
1919-1933
Arthur and Lila Weinberg Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Weinberg
Abstract
Works, Research files, and secondary source materials created and compiled by Arthur and Lila Weinberg for their works on Clarence Darrow and other topics.
Dates:
1950-1988
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
Graham Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Taylor
Abstract
Works, correspondence, and family papers of minister, social worker, professor, and founder of Chicago Commons settlement house, Graham Taylor.
Dates:
1820-1975; Majority of material found within 1866-1940
John Doctoroff Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Doctoroff
Abstract
Correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, exhibition programs, and prints relating to Chicago-based portrait artist John Doctoroff.
Dates:
1924-1967
John T. Jacobs - Clarence Darrow papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Jacobs
Abstract
Letters from Chicago lawyer Clarence Darrow to attorney and judge John T. Jacobs of Greeley, Colorado. Letters provide documentation of friendship, professional collaboration, and a shared interest in reading, as well as news of Darrow's son Paul who was living in Greeley. Also includes other miscellaneous letters and an essay by F.O. Stanley in which, though a teetotaler, he argues against prohibition.
Dates:
1909-1926
Mary Field Parton-Clarence Darrow Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Parton
Abstract
Material relating to the friendship between Clarence Darrow and journalist Mary Field Parton, which includes sixty-one of his letters to her, several other letters, short articles by Darrow, clippings, and photographs. Included are numerous transcripts of Darrow's letters, a biographical sketch of Parton, and excerpts from her journal that refer to Darrow, all done by Parton's daughter Margaret Parton (Hussey).
Dates:
1909-1975
May Walden Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-WaldenM
Abstract
Collection of May Walden, wife of Socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr from 1892 to 1904, consisting of letters, diaries, literary manuscripts, account books, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, as well as publications relating to the Socialist movement. Included in the papers are items relating to May Walden's daughter, Katharine Kerr Moore.
Dates:
1869-1972; Majority of material found within 1892 - 1959
Photograph portrait of Amirus Darrow, Clarence Darrow, and Paul Darrow
Item
Identifier: Midwest-MS-048
Abstract
Black and white portrait photograph of Amirus Darrow, Clarence Darrow, and Paul Darrow, Chicago, ca. 1900. From left to right: Amirus (Clarence's father), Paul (Clarence's only child), and Clarence.
Dates:
approximately 1900
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
Wallace Rice Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rice
Abstract
Correspondence, almost all addressed to Chicago author, anthologist and lecturer Wallace Rice with a few outgoing letters; also many examples of his works, and a miscellany of associated material including a small collection of photographs.
Dates:
1779-1939; Majority of material found within 1885 - 1935