Texas jurists collection, ca. 1936-1992, undated.

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Texas jurists collection, ca. 1936-1992, undated.

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Ocie Speer's Texas jurists depicts judges and others active in the legal profession from 1845 to 1936, including the Texas Supreme Court, Commissions of Appeals to the Court of Criminal Appeals, Commissions of Appeals to the Court of Criminal Appeals, U.S. judges for Texas, Texas attorney generals, and well-known authors and editors of legal works. A large part of the collection consists of retouched photographs used to produce Texas jurists. There are copy negatives for some of the photographs, as well as a few negatives of unretouched images. A few photographs published in Texas jurists are not present in the collection. There are also modern portraits of members of the Texas Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals. The manuscript material consists of Justice Pope's lists of members of the court, his correspondence with sitting justices and the publisher of Texas jurists, newsclippings and several pamphlets and manuscripts on Texas Supreme Court history, and a file of Speer's original typescripts and working papers for Texas jurists.

3 linear ft. (10 boxes)

University of Texas, Tarlton Law Library, Jamail Center for Legal Research

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SNAC Resource ID: 8221467

University of Texas, Tarlton Law Library, Jamail Center for Legal Research

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Speer, Ocie, 1869-

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Pope, Jack, 1913-

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Retired Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Jack Pope began to acquire photographs of Texas appellate court judges in 1982 when he purchased the originals and negatives used in Ocie Speer's pictorial work, TEXAS JURISTS (Austin, 1936), from W. L. Thompson, a principal of Steck Publishing of Austin, Tex., the book's publisher. Pope added contemporary photographs until he had assembled a nearly complete gallery of judges of the Texas Supreme Court. In 1992 he donated the entire collection to the Tar...