- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Flexner, Bernard, 1865-1945
- Title:
- Bernard Flexner Papers
- Repository:
- Public Policy Papers
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8910jt60x
- Dates:
- 1882-1946 (mostly 1917-1943)
- Size:
- 20 boxes and 1 folder
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (mudd): Box 1-20
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Bernard Flexner, a lawyer, philanthropist and Zionist leader, was an early supporter of the juvenile court movement. Contains the personal papers of Flexner, including diaries and letters to his sister Mary while he served with the American Red Cross Commission to Romania (1917) and as counsel for the Zionist delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1918-1919); material concerning Albert Einstein, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial record, and the juvenile court system of the early 1900s; and miscellaneous correspondence.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Contains the personal papers of Flexner, including diaries and letters to his sister Mary while he served with the American Red Cross Commission to Romania (1917) and as counsel for the Zionist delegation to the Paris Peace Conference (1918-1919); material concerning Albert Einstein, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial record, and the juvenile court system of the early 1900s; and miscellaneous correspondence.
Also included are biographical notes on Flexner family history, photographs, poems by Hortense, James, and Jean Flexner, and correspondence (1882-1944) between various other members of this large Kentucky family.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Flexner, Bernard, 1865-1945
Bernard Flexner, a lawyer, philanthropist and Zionist leader, was an early supporter of the juvenile court movement. From 1917 he lived in New York, devoting himself to various Zionist movements and organizations to aid Palestine.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
No aquisition information was captured at the time of processing.
- Appraisal
No materials were separated from this collection.
- Processing Information
No processing information was recorded at the time of processing.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. For quotations that are fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. For those few instances beyond fair use, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold the copyright and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from the Mudd Library to move forward with their use.
- Credit this material:
Bernard Flexner Papers; Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8910jt60x
- Location:
-
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (mudd): Box 1-20
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Juvenile courts -- United States -- 20th century.
Lawyers -- United States -- 20th century.
Paris Peace Conference.
Probation -- United States -- 20th century.
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921.
World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Romania -- Red Cross. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence.
Diaries.
Family papers.
Photographs.
Poems. - Names:
- United States
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Flexner family
Flexner, Mary, 1873-
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
