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Photographs of Walter B. Beals, approximately 1889-1959

Overview of the Collection

Title
Photographs of Walter B. Beals
Dates
approximately 1889-1959 (inclusive)
Quantity
89 photographic prints (1 box, 1 folder) ; sizes vary
Collection Number
PH1250
Summary
Portraits of Walter Beals as a judge, with wife and in the military. As well as events such as veterans activities, marriages, Washington Supreme Court activities and images of manuscript and book collections.
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries’ Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials Curator is required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.

Request at UW

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Walter Burges Beals was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1876. Beals's family traveled west in 1897, and Beals enrolled in the newly founded University of Washington Law School; he and his future wife Othilia Carroll were members of the first graduating class of the school in 1901.

Beals served as a military officer in France during World War I and afterwards helped organize and found the American Legion. His legal career flourished in the 1920s, and in 1926, he accepted a position as judge of the Superior Court of King County. Beals became a member of the Washington State Supreme Court in 1928, a position he held until his retirement in 1950, twice holding the position of Chief Justice. Beals is perhaps best known for his work, in 1946-1947, as Presiding Judge at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremburg, the Nazi war trial known as the "Doctors' Trial."

Walter Beals was an avid collector of books, manuscripts, such as liturgical and religious manuscripts, and signatures, particularly those of European royalty. Beals also began creating albums as a young man, a hobby he continued throughout his life, collecting and soliciting signatures, manuscripts and other materials which he would mount on paper or vellum and bind into albums, often with leather covers. In his time, Beals was considered the greatest private collector of manuscripts and books in the Pacific Northwest.

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Content Description

Portraits of Walter Beals as a judge, with wife and in the military as well as events such as veterans activities, marriages, Washington Supreme Court activities and images of manuscript and book collections.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.

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Administrative Information

Processing Note

Processed by Stefanie Terasaki, 2014; Beck Prigot, 2015; processing completed in 2016.

Photographs were transferred from the Portraits Collection, 2014.

Related Materials

Photographs of Judge Beals' time on the tribunal for Nuremberg Military Trial I can be found in the Walter Beals Nuremberg Trials Photograph Collection, PH1150.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

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Subject Terms

  • Judges--Washington (State)--Photographs
  • Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Beals, Walter B.--Childhood and youth--Photographs
  • Beals, Walter B.--Family--Photographs
  • Beals, Walter B.--Friends and associates--Photographs
  • Beals, Walter B.--Photographs

Corporate Names

  • Washington (State). Supreme Court


2014 (Last modified: 4/13/2021)

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