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Baker Brownell (1887-1965) Papers
Collection
Identifier: 12/1/3
Abstract
Baker Brownell enjoyed a rich and varied career as a soldier, newspaper man, popular teacher and lecturer, prolific writer and minor power, and scholar concerned with the dynamics of both the "small community" and the larger "human community" of which it formed an important component. During his lifetime, much of which was spent as a member of the faculty at Northwestern, Brownell achieved a national reputation based upon both his recognized abilities as a lecturer and teacher and his...
Dates:
1904-1965
Found in:
Northwestern University Archives
Leopold and Loeb Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS85
Abstract
Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. (November 19, 1904-August 29, 1971) and Richard Albert Loeb (June 11, 1905-January 28, 1936), often referred to as "Leopold and Loeb", were privileged and wealthy teenage University of Chicago students who murdered 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924 in a desire to commit the "perfect crime," and were sentenced to prison for 99 years plus a life term. Through correspondence, newspaper clippings, court documents, miscellanea, photographs, publications,...
Dates:
1894 - 1990; Other: Majority of material found within 1952 - 1971; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1963
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- Names: Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938 X
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- Community life--United States--Study and teaching 1
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- Names
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 1
- Adler, Mortimer J. (Mortimer Jerome), 1902-2001 1
- Brownell, Baker, 1887-1965 1
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952 1
- Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976 1
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
- Gale, Zona, 1874-1938 1
- Gertz, Elmer, 1906-2000 1
- Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982 1
- La Follette, Philip Fox, 1897-1965 1
- Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904-1971 1
- Loeb, Richard A., 1905-1936 1
- McCormick, Robert R. (Robert Rutherford), 1880-1955 1
- Medill School of Journalism--Faculty 1
- Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936 1
- Otto, Max Carl, 1876-1968 1
- Richberg, Donald R. (Donald Randall), 1881-1960 1
- Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 1
- Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967 1
- Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966 1
- Santayana, George, 1863-1952 1
- Simms, Ruth Hanna McCormick, 1880-1944 1
- Tallmadge, Thomas E. (Thomas Eddy), 1876-1940 1
- Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965 1
- Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall), 1882-1975 1
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