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Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Benjamin B. Lindsey, judge and social reformer, were given to the Library of Congress by his wife, Henrietta B. Lindsey, from 1949 to 1965.
The Lindsey Papers were processed in 1963. The finding aid was revised in 2011 and 2015.
A note concerning the acquisition of the Lindsey Papers appeared in the
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Ben B. Lindsey is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Ben B. Lindsey are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Ben B. Lindsey Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Ben Barr Lindsey (1869-1943) span the years 1838-1957, with most of the material originating between 1890 and 1943. The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence, family letters and case files. Other papers include manuscripts of Lindsey's articles, books, speeches, and plays; drafts of broadcast scripts and statements; notebooks, daybooks, journals, yearbooks, and appointment books; and stenographic notes. In addition, there are financial, legal and legislation files; official and personal files; memorabilia; scrapbooks; photographs; newspaper clippings; broadsides; and related material. The collection is organized into eleven series: Correspondence (Indexed); Correspondence (Not Indexed); Colorado File; California File; Article, Book, and Speech File; Memoranda, Reports, Statements, and Interviews; Subject File; Legislation; Miscellany; Formerly Restricted Correspondence; and Oversize.
The Lindsey Papers primarily concern his development of the juvenile court system, his tenures as a judge in Colorado and California, and his political and literary activities. Considerable material relates to child welfare, child labor laws, penal reform, women's suffrage, birth control, marriage and divorce, sex education and hygiene, and the Women's Protective League. The collection also treats Lindsey's disbarment in Colorado, the Colorado coal miners' strike of 1913-1914, and the investigations of the Whittier State School of California in 1940-1942.
Prominent correspondents include Jane Addams, Joseph P. Annin, Newton Diehl Baker, Roger Nash Baldwin, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, Edward William Bok, Louis Dembritz Brandeis, Henry Augustus Buchtel, Luther Burbank, Carrie Chapman Catt, James H. Causey, John Cavanaugh, Edward Prentiss Costigan, George Creel, Clarence Darrow, Stephen T. Early, Thomas A. Edison, Havelock Ellis, Robert Erskine Ely, Wainwright Evans, Harriet Ford , Henry Ford, Louis M. Howe, Charles Evans Hughes, Harold L. Ickes, Hiram Johnson, Tom Loftin Johnson, James Harvey Kellog, Robert M. La Follette (1855-1925), Jesse L. Lasky, Walter Lippmann, William Gibbs McAdoo, S. S. McClure, Jesse F. McDonald, H. H. McIntyre, Julian W. Mack, Justin Miller, Henry Morgenthau, Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, Culbert Levy Olson, Thomas McDonald Patterson, Drew Pearson, George W. Perkins, James H. Pershing, Amos Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot, Donald R. Richberg, Jacob A. Riis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Sol A. Rosenblatt, Bertrand Russell, Margaret Sanger, Hannah Kent Schoff, John F. Shafroth, Morrison Shafroth, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Lyman Beecher Stowe, William Howard Taft, R. D. Thompson, Earl Warren, James E. West, William Allen White, Brand Whitlock, Woodrow Wilson, and Stephen S. Wise.
Edwin Markham, coauthor with Lindsey and George Creel of
This collection is arranged in eleven series:
Letters and telegrams sent and received, reports, memoranda, statements, speeches, and broadcast scripts.
Arranged chronologically. A card index for this series is available in the Manuscript Division Reading Room.
Letters and telegrams sent and received, reports, memoranda, statements, speeches, and broadcast scripts.
Arranged chronologically.
Case files, subject files, correspondence, memoranda, reports, records, and related material.
Arranged by type of material.
Case files, subject files, correspondence, memoranda, reports, records, and related material.
Arranged by type of material.
Holograph drafts, typescripts, galley proofs, and printed copies of articles, books, plays, speeches, broadcast scripts, lectures, and related material.
Articles, speeches, broadcast scripts, and lectures are arranged chronologically by type of material. The books and plays are arranged by title.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, poetry, printed matter, and related material.
Arranged alphabetically by subject and therein chronologically.
Miscellaneous memoranda, reports, statements, interviews and related material.
Arranged by type of material, topic, or organization, and chronologically therein.
Drafts and printed copies of bills, memoranda, reports, and related material.
Arranged as received.
Financial papers, journals, daybooks, notebooks, stenographic notes, appointment books, yearbooks, legal papers, memorabilia, personal papers, photographs, printed matter, miscellaneous scrapbooks, and related material.
Grouped by subject or type of material.
Formerly restricted letters and telegrams sent and received from individuals, principally young people, who wrote to Lindsey about their personal problems. Many of the names and addresses in these letters and telegrams were obliterated by the donor.
Broadsides, cartoons, certificates, citations, diplomas, photographs, official documents, printed matter, and scrapbooks.
Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed.