Treasures from the Archives
The archives at Boston University School of Law contain letters, memos, and other administrative documents, as well as yearbooks, old exams, photos, rare books, and even handwritten scrolls. Here are just a few of the treasures we unearthed in our quest to learn more about the school’s past.
Photos by Jake Belcher
Treasures from the Archives
It’s a small room that possesses a lot of memory. The archives at Boston University School of Law contain letters, memos, and other administrative documents, as well as yearbooks, old exams, photos, rare books, and even handwritten scrolls. Here are just a few of the treasures we unearthed in our quest to learn more about the school’s past.
The archives at BU Law are located on the third floor, in the administrative offices of the Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries.
Left: A trophy given to Joseph J. Feeley in 1914 to recognize his work as one of the original organizers of the BU Law Alumni Association.
Right: A 1937 letter from Hon. George Anderson (1890) to US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.
A portrait of the Class of 1918.
BU Law student journalists published Comment, a school newspaper, from 1966 to 1985.
Left: An early edition of Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, donated by Hon. Harry K. Stone (1916).
Right: A 2012 Legal Follies poster.
Interested in BU Law’s history? Get your copy of the school’s commemorative book, 150/150: People, Places, and Precedents.
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