The documents in this web
page were photographed from originals found in the private papers of the
Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, located as follows:
Justice Blackmun:
The Harry A. Blackmun
Papers,
Library of Congress,
Washington, DC
Finding Aid
Justice Brennan:
The William J. Brennan,
Jr. Papers,
Library of Congress,
Washington, DC
Finding Aid
Justice Marshall:
The Thurgood Marshall
Papers,
Library of Congress,
Washington, DC
Finding Aid
Justice White:
The Byron R. White Papers
Library of Congress,
Washington, DC
Finding Aid
The unfailing courtesy and outstanding assistance of
the Manuscript Reference Librarians at the Library of Congress,
particularly Bruce Kirby, gratefully acknowledged.
Michael Barzee, Stephanie Outlaw, and Kristen Thurmond provided outstanding research assistance in connection
with this site. Tamara Shinn worked tirelessly to convert
files into more readable form. Finally, Sharon Kennedy took a week
from her active law practice to help her alma mater and old professor in
his research at the Library of Congress. My sincere thanks to all
of them. Without their help, this website could not have been
created.
Most of the documents from the Byron White papers were
originally photographed by Professor Lynda Dodd, the Joseph Flom
Professor of Legal Studies at CCNY, and her research assistants, as part
or her ongoing scholarship on the history of Section 1983. Her
generous permission to convert those photographs to pdfs and to use them
on this website is gratefully acknowledged. |
The document files you view
on this website are pdf versions digital photographic copies of the
original documents found in the sources described to the left.
The image storage system automatically assigned an
image code to each image that indicated the collection, box, file
and page at which it was found.
For example, a memo given the original image number
WJB437F60073 was found in the William J. Brennan Collection, in Box
437 File 6 and was the 73rd page in that file. (Note that the last
four digits indicate the page number. As a result, a number
like LFP189F100002, indicates the second page of Box 189 File 10,
not File 1.)
In the pdf document, the image
number of the first page of appears as part of the pdf file of each page. (See red
underlining below.) If the document has more than one page, the
image of each
page appears as a bookmark name. (See red arrow below.)
Most of the documents from the Byron R. White Papers were photographed
using a different storage and numbering system. As a result, the pdf copies of those documents indicate the box number where the original
can be found, but not the file or page number. For example, pdf
document
BRW478Fxx1429
can be found in Box 478 of the Byron White Papers but its designation
does not indicate the file or page number within that box. |