Herbert Brownell Jr. Additional Papers. 1897 - 1996. Photographs
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Herbert Brownell Jr. Additional Papers. 1897 - 1996. Photographs
This series consists of photographic prints, slides, negatives, transparencies, and postcards accumulated by Herbert Brownell, Jr., throughout his lifetime. Many of the images are of members of Brownell and his family, including studio portraits and informal snapshots. Several cabinet card portraits of Brownell's ancestors were made as long ago as the 1880s or 1890s. Other family photographs date to Brownell's childhood and youth and that of his first wife, Doris McCarter Brownell. There are many photos of the Brownells' children. There are also group portraits of Brownell and his family taken up into the 1980s or early 1990s, as well as some photos featuring artist Marion “Riki” Taylor, to whom Brownell was briefly married.
Photographs from Brownell's youth include some from his time at the University of Nebraska, where he was a member of the Society of Innocents and the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. Some photographs may be from Brownell's long employment at law firm Lord, Day & Lord, although they are not labeled. Brownell appears at meetings of the American Hotel Association and the Hotel Association of New York City. Several photographs show him with groups at restaurant “21” in New York City.
Photos of Brownell's early political activity include a few from his runs for state assemblyman in New York in the 1930s, as well as a number taken while Brownell was campaign manager for Thomas E. Dewey's gubernatorial and presidential campaigns during the 1940s. Photos of the candidates and of examples of political advertising are present in the series.
Many photos in this series were taken during or just before Herbert Brownell's term as Attorney General during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. These include a small number of photos taken on Eisenhower's 1952 trip to Korea. A set of black and white snapshots shows the members of Eisenhower's Cabinet riding in the 1953 Inauguration Day Parade. Photos feature Attorney General Brownell with the President's Cabinet, at the Department of Justice, at the FBI National Academy, at the White House, at Camp David, and at meetings of the American Bar Association, Inter-American Bar Association, and National Association of Attorneys General. Brownell instituted the Attorney General's Honors Program at the Department of Justice, the first classes of which appear in group photographs with Brownell. He is shown speaking at meetings with the National Industrial Conference Board and the Zionist Organization of America. He is also shown addressing the press, courts, and committees on such topics as governmental investigations, internal security, communism, and wiretapping.
Brownell is pictured receiving several honorary degrees during and after his term as Attorney General, including one from the National University of Ireland. Organizations that Brownell was involved in and are depicted in the series include the Bohemian Club, the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, and the governing council of the White Burkett Miller Center at the University of Virginia. Later involvement of Herbert Brownell with the federal government includes dealing with issues of water rights and water quality management on the lower Colorado River, investigating geothermal resources in California's Imperial Valley, and being vice-chairman of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. He also is pictured with the Congressional sponsors of the 25th Amendment and the supporting American Bar Association Committee, and, in another photo, with the Coalition for Adequate Judicial Compensation while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Administration of Justice.
Some locations where Herbert Brownell appears in photographs in this series include the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; the Executive Mansion in Monrovia, Liberia; Middle Temple Hall in London; Peru State College, Nebraska; the Bohemian Grove in California; and Plymouth, Massachusetts. He also appears at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library at conferences on constitutional issues and civil rights.
Additional persons of interest who appear in photographs in this series include Sherman Adams, Hawthorne Arey, William H. Avery, Stanley N. Barnes, Birch Bayh, Griffin B. Bell, James V. Bennett, Ezra Taft Benson, Omar Bradley, John W. Bricker, Baron Nigel Bridge of Harwich, Warren E. Burger, W. Randolph Burgess, George H. W. Bush, Clifford P. Case, Emanuel Celler, Benjamin R. Civiletti, Mark W. Clark, LeRoy Collins, John T. Connor, Eamonn De Valera, Thomas E. Dewey, Joseph M. Dodge, John Foster Dulles, Martin P. Durkin, John S. D. Eisenhower, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Orval Faubus, Leonard W. Hall, Oveta Culp Hobby, Herbert Hoover, Herbert C. Hoover, J. Edgar Hoover, George M. Humphrey, Robert Kastenmeier, Nicholas Katzenbach, Kenneth B. Keating, James S. Kemper, Richard G. Kleindienst, William F. Knowland, Thomas H. Kuchel, John V. Lindsay, Henry Cabot Lodge, Douglas McKay, Theodore R. McKeldin, William H. H. Miller, Perry W. Morton, Richard Nixon, Warren Olney, Norman Vincent Peale, J. C. Penney, Cesar Quintero, Arthur William Radford, Thomas C. Railsback, Elliot L. Richardson, Terrence J. Roberts, William P. Rogers, Jacob Ruppert, Babe Ruth, Hugh Scott, Rocco C. Siciliano, William French Smith, Simon Ernest Sobeloff, Harold Edward Stassen, Thomas E. Stephens, Arthur E. Summerfield, Joseph Swing, Harold E. Talbott, William Pearson Tolley, Clyde Tolson, William F. Tompkins, Dallas Townsend, Harry S. Truman, William V. S. Tubman, James A. Van Fleet, Fred M. Vinson, Andy Warhol, Earl Warren, William H. Webster, Sinclair Weeks, Grover A. Whalen, Charles Erwin Wilson, and Walter Winchell.
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