Title: Harry A. Blackmun Papers at the Library of Congress

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Library of Congress. Manuscript Reading Room

URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/blackmun/

Date Checked: 10/5/2005      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 8/13/2004

Topics: Legal History

Other keywords: United States Supreme Court; Blackmun, Harry A.

Contents: In anticipation of high research demand, the Manuscript Reading Room of the Library of Congress has made available online selected materials from the papers of Harry Andrew Blackmun (1908-1999). This site describes the collection in detail, provides a finding aid for the collection, reprints the press release from the opening of the collection, and offers a selective but detailed bibliography. Of interest to researchers and academics, the site includes 38 hours of oral history video interviews and the transcript of this oral history project. The 510-page transcript is only available as JPEG images of the original print manuscript (not text or PDF), and the interview videos are similarly copy-protected in their Real Audio file format. Small samples from the Blackmun Papers collection are available, including pages from draft opinions and handwritten notes from case files. These samples are intended to highlight the collection, and are not provided for the benefit of research via this webpage.

Author of Annotation: B. Kreisler