Bernard Louis Gorfinkle Papers

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Bernard Louis Gorfinkle Papers

Consists of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, ephemera, documents and a scrapbook compiled by a Boston area lawyer and civic leader who served in the United States Army during both World Wars and was a participant in the negotiations leading to the Treaty of Versailles and the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.

1.5 linear feet (3 manuscript boxes); 1 oversized folder

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