the inventory of the edward o. gourdin collection #1018

The Inventory

of the

Edward O. Gourdin

Collection

#1018

Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center

EDWARD ORVAL GOURDIN

1897 - 1966

Outline of Inventory

TO ALL RESEARCHERS:

This collection consists of four boxes, covering the following categories of material; personal,

Olympic, military and judicial . The material begins in l847 and ends in 1997.

BOX I. MILITARY MATERIALS (UNITED STATES ARMY)

A. Correspondence

B. Photographs

C. Miscellaneous

War Memorandums

Top Secret Documents

Certificates

Army Newsletters

Glee Club Records (372nd Infantry)

Medical Records

Press Releases (Before, During, After World War II)

Radio Show Scripts

AOff Duty@ Review Scripts (Theater Scripts)

BOX II. PERSONAL PAPERS

A. Correspondence

B Printed Materials

C. Articles

Newspapers

Magazines

Booklets

Pamphlets

Brochures

Log Books

D. Olympic Materials

Correspondence

Printed Materials

Photographs

E. Judicial Materials

Correspondence

Printed Material

Photographs

BOX III Large Documents

A. Wills

B. Licenses

C. Certificates

D. Photographs

E. Annual Reports (Church, Community Organizations)

F. Booklets

G. Pamphlets

H. Brochures

BOX IV.

SCRAPBOOKS (Total 5)

BOX I.

MILITARY MATERIALS

MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHS

Folder l. Military photographs (all of E.O.G.) - one dated New York 1943

(Total 7)

Folder 2. Military pictures of Army members (none of E.O.G.) (Total 7)

Reprints:

1. Monument to 37l st Infantry (Bussy Farm, France)

2. Monument to 372nd Infantry (Plains of Monthois, France)

3. Army Color Guard

4. Military Police

5. Marching Brigade

6. Soldier with weapon

7. Soldier on guard

Envelope 1. Military photographs ( (fragile) 1938 - 1957 (Total 17)

Envelope 2. Military photographs - 1943, 1944, 1948 (Total 6)

MILITARY CORRESPONDENCE: ALS, TLS, CTL, CTLS, ANS

Folder 3. 1931-1939 (Total 12)

Folder 4. 1940 - (Total 32)

1941 - (Total 50)

Folder 5. 1942 - (Total 123)

Folder 6. 1943 - (Total 50)

Folder 7. 1944 Includes:

Prose piece ADUTY@; Blank stationery of the 372nd Infantry (Total 64)

Folder 8. 1944 & 1945 ATop Secret@ Files (Total 234)

Map of Hawaii

Folder 9. 1945 (Total 111)

Folder 10. Army Commendation Ribbon May 8, 1945 to January 18, 1946

Printed document (not actual ribbon)


Folder 12. 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950 (Total 31)

Folder 13. 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957

Total (126)

MILITARY MISCELLANEOUS

Envelope 3. Factual History of 372nd Infantry Completed Jan. 29, 1946

E.O.G.=s Small Arms Firing School Certificates, Camp Perry,

Ohio 1931 and 1936 (2)

Retired Reserve Certificate, United States Army 1957

Military - Discharge Papers in brown leather case 1947

(Total 5)

Envelope 4. Copy of booklet AOn guard@ 372nd Infantry 1944 (Total 1 booklet)

Envelope 5. Log Book 1945 -1946. All entries are hand written by E.O.G.

Entry August 14, 1945 - AThe war is over@

Envelope 6. Log Book undated. All entries are hand written by E.O.G.

PERSONAL PAPERS AND MISCELLANEOUS

Folder 14. Material from 1997 Exhibit: Social Law Library - Harvard Law

School

Harvard Freshman Handbook 1917 - 1918

Photographs and negatives:

Photographs: (Total 2)

Formal student - Harvard University

Very small photograph - high jumper (not E.O.G.)

Negatives: (Total 40)

E.O.G. as a student

Harvard Freshman Handbook 1917 - 1918 (cover page)

Preparing to run Harvard track

Broad jump - Harvard

Olympic athletes on ship board on way to Paris Olympics 1924

Article from Harvard Law School Record

E.O.G. in casual military

E.O.G. in formal military dress

Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands with E.O.G. in uniform

Invitation to event with E.O.G. and Paul Robeson as guest speakers

Newspaper article - AColonel named to bench@ Newspaper article - AGourdin named to bench@ Newspaper article - AOlympic Champ Still Winning@

(appointment to bench)

Governor and Mrs. Foster Furcolo and Judge and Mrs. Edward

Gourdin at formal dinner (undated)

Miscellaneous pieces in a collage setting: E.O.G.=s gavel, Olympic

scrap book, Commendation ribbon, photographs

EVENT INVITATIONS

Folder 15. Various Invitations:

Invitation for birthday party for Paul Robeson (undated)

Invitation for Ceremonies dedicating the John F. Kennedy

Memorial Stamp 1964

Invitation (in booklet form) for unveiling formal portrait of E.O.G.

in Judicial Robes, 1997

(Total 3)

FAMILY DOCUMENTS

Folder 16. Personal Certificates: (Total 10)

Hand written record of births 1847 - 1864 and deaths 1851

- 1900 (on Scrolled Victorian Paper - most fragile)

Woman=s Service Club of Boston Certificate, Amelia

Ponce. (Capital stock $25,000 1921)

Birth Certificate:

Elizabeth Ann Gourdin 1924

Baptisms:

Amalia Gourdin 1938

Ann Garvin Gourdin 1932

Confirmations:

Amalia Gourdin (2) 1938

Elizabeth Ann Gourdin 1938

Club Assembly for outstanding service to the community, to Judge

Gourdin 1953

Folder 17. Certificate of Service 1947

Folder 18. 100th Anniversary Program for the Superior Court 1859n - 1959

Articles - magazine

Folder 19. Death Certificate - July 21, 1966

Obituary (Total 2)

Folder 20. Articles - magazine

Harvard Magazine November - December 1997

Article about E.O.G. page 44, 45

Envelope 7. Articles - newspaper

Copy of newspaper The Guardian 1958

Photograph and article about E.O.G. being named to the bench

Thurgood Marshall is in picture (counsel for NAACP) (Total 1)

Folder 21. Undated Correspondence (Total 172)

Letter to Amelia Ponce from her father Riccardo R. Ponce

Letter to E.O.G. from his mother

Envelope 8. Formal picture of E.O.G. undated - Business attire

Envelope 9. Photographs, E.O.G. at Harvard University

From the magazine The Crisis Broad Jump 1921

Standing and preparing to run track

Broad jump - in the air (2 copies)

Small snapshot in AHA shirt (Harvard Athletic Association)

(Total 5)

Envelope 10. Photograph of E.O.G. and 3 other Harvard athletes - in wooden

frame (undated) (Total 1)

Envelope 11. Miscellaneous personal materials

One small red booklet: Girl=s Latin School - AMy classmates@ -

one of adult Amelia Gourdin Jan. 25, 1939 (20 photographs)

Two negatives of E.O.G. and his car

E.O.G. Harvard Stadium July 23, 1921 - winning broad jump -

world=s record 25' 3"

E.O.G. Assistant Attorney General (formal)

E.O.G. in home, in garden, (summer of 1965) on porch (1953), at

party

E.O.G. formal photograph, young student

E.O.G formal photograph, older man

E.O.G. with Mayor Collins and other un-named dignitaries

E.O.G. sitting on the bench with 7 other judges

E.O.G. with Mayor Hynes, and unknown black gentleman

E.O.G. With Governor Dever, his wife Amelia and son

Edward, Jr

.

E.O.G.=s mother Felicia Mary Gourdin & eldest sister Florence

Judge and Mrs. Forte in audience with the Pope (color

photograph)

Unknown young girl & gentleman

Joanie? - spring 1960

Lamaden - Aearly in the morning - color photograph

Magazine picture of unknown Judge in judicial robes

Small photograph of Sy Carter in Liberia (APassed by U.S.

Examiner, Base 202 written on back of photo)

Small photograph of athlete with letter sweater AY@

Photograph of unknown judge in judicial robes in chambers

Envelope 12. Trial List for Judge Gourdin 1961 (Total 1)

Envelope 13. E.O.G.= death - July 21, 1966 (Total 12)

Color photographs of actual burial, Cotuit Cemetery, Cape Cod,

MA (9)

1 newspaper account of life and death of E.O.G.

Color photographs of dedication of E.O.G. Square, Dorchester,

with Amelia Gourdin and 2 unknown female relatives & Color

Guard 1981 (2)

Envelope 14. Correspondence from Senator Henry Cabot Lodge August 10,

1922 TLS (perhaps signature is a stamp?)

Correspondence from Senator Edward M. Kennedy

February 4,1963 TLS

Correspondence from E.O.G. to Senator Edward M. Kennedy

February 15, 1963 CTLS unsigned

Correspondence from Speaker of the House, John W.

McCormack, July 2, 1966 ALS with envelope

(Total 4)

BOX 2 PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE

Folder 1. 1917, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1939

(Total 27)

Folder 2. War Ration books (4)

Immunization Registers (9)

Report Cards (9)

Various business cards (6)

Miscellaneous documents (19)

(Total 47)

Folder 3. 1940, 1941, 1948 (Total 31)








Folder 11. 1946 - 1947 (Total 142)


Folder 13. 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958

Papers for following properties:

Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Cape Cod, MA

Proposed conveyance, copy of description of deed agreement

from Town of Bourne Selectmen

Christ Church, Quincy, MA ( sold by the Barry family)

Documents of purchase of land for Church, Summons

Accounting records, Memorandums, Conveyance, Real Estate

taxes for 1957, Architectural rendering for Quincy, MA location

Correspondence regarding land at Popponesset, Falmouth,

MA.

Correspondence regarding Para Tours, Inc., Mattapan, MA

Agreement for property in Braintree, MA

Advance sheets for Appellate Tax Board, Commonwealth of

MA, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Rockland, MA

(Total 37)

Folder 14. Estate papers of Sarah E. Wilson (Client) (Total 34)

Folder 15. 1951, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1974,

1980 (Total 59)

Folder 16. Judicial 1929 - 1965 (Total 62)

Folder 17. Olympic - Letter written by Hazel Wightman - undated, torn

(Total 63)

Folder 18. Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth, Suffolk County,

MA, - Florence H. Luscomb case 3/56

Massachusetts Law Quarterly 12/58 to 1/ 59

Eighty Six Devonshire, Inc. vs. Morris Shapiro, Tr. 10/63

Memorandum from Group Insurance Commission 11/64

Trail Judge=s Guide 2/66

Handwritten memo by E.O.G. regarding Williams Family Trust

(Total 6)

Folder 19. Schools materials from E.O.G., Mrs. E.O.G. and their four

children - 1916- 1964

Elizabeth Ann, Amalia, Ann Garvin, Edward Orval, Jr.

Stanton Grammar and High School, Florida 1916

The Jeremiah E. Burke School, Boston, MA 1944

Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA 1943, 1944

Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 1941, 1942, 1943,1944, 1946

Edwards Scholarship Fund (for Wellesley College), 1942 ,1943,

1944

Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada 1944

Boston University, Boston, MA 1945, 1947

(Total 65)

Folder 20. Harvard University & Harvard Law correspondence and material

1942 - 1964 (Total 36)

Folder 21. 1924 - 1980 (Total 146)

Folder 22. ASwearing in@ invitation. Issued by Governor Foster Furcolo for

E.O.G. as Justice of the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of

Massachusetts, July 22, 1958 in The Senate Chambers of the

State House, Boston, Massachusetts (Total 1)

Folder 23. Get well cards and letters January to July, 1966 (Total 33)

Folder 24. Condolence and sympathy cards and letters on the death of

E.O.G. July to August 1966

One letter AFather of integration in armed forces@ 7/25/66

One letter from Attorney General Edward W. Brooke

7/22/66TLS

Medical bills

Register of visitors to wake

(Total 89)

Folder 25. Pencil written signature of Edward Orval Gourdin (Total 1)

Box 3 (large folders)

Folder 1. Will of George I.F. Clark, Esquire 1834

Marriage license of E.O.G.=s parents 1887

Program of dinner for President of the Republic of Liberia,

Edwin Barclay 1943 (Total 3)

Folder 2. Personal letters and postcards 1921 - 1927

(Total 59)

Folder 3. Certificate - United States Army, appointed Corporal (Total 1)

Folder 4. Booklets, Programs, Brochures 1924- 1965 (Total 30)

Folder 5. Newspaper articles and cartoons 1926 - 1949 (Total 141)

Folder 6. Newspaper articles on scrapbook paper 1941 -1945 (Total 55)

Folder 7. Coonamessett Ranch Company 1949 (Total 1)

Folder 8. Photographs and Negatives

Five photographs:

Governor Dever, Representative Thomas H. Spurn, Jr,

Judge Gourdin, Representative Vincent F. Cronin

Baseball team - all black members (undated)

Governor Dever, Amelia Gourdin and her son Edward Jr.

Governor and Mrs. Foster Furcolo, Judge and Mrs. Edward

Gourdin, formal dinner gathering

Small picture of young boy in chair outside (undated)

Four negatives:

Old fashioned lady in Victorian ball gown

Gentleman in Victorian suit

Two gentlemen on lawn

Felicia Mary Gourdin (mother of E.O.G) Florence (eldest

sister)

Folder 9. Court calendar 1962 (Total 1)

Folder 10. Congratulatory telegrams 1951 - 1958 (Total 20)

Small archive box 1 Wooden stamp with E.O.G. Signature on it

SCRAPBOOKS

SCRAPBOOK I. Description of book (quite fragile):

Grey background with Red Poppies on front cover

TITLE: AOlympiques - 1924 - Cartes Postales@

1. Sketch of E.O.G. on inside front left hand side cover -

ASketched by a Frenchman in a Paris Café in 1924 - signed by

DeHart Hubbard when I refused to sign@ E.O.G. wrote

2. Post cards - photographs in French

3. Program of events - July 17, 18, 20

4. S.S. America post card

5. Invitation postcard to hear E.O.G. and Paul Robeson speak

August 14 New York City (no year) (2)

6. Newspaper clipping: Calafia, Black Queen of California - AThe

first inhabitants of California were Blacks. According to an old@ - cut off. On same page, picture and obituary of John P. Green,

State Senator from Ohio.

7. Small black and white photographs of fellow athletics

8. Florida post cards

9. Invitation from the Amateur Athletic Association for formal

dinner, July 19, 1924. At Trocaadero Restaurant, Piccadilly

Circus

10. Invitation from the President of the Republic of France –

Reception July 18, 1924 at Palais de l@ Elysee

11. Very small green U. S. Postage stamp - 1 cent (in plastic sleeve)

(Total pieces 77)

SCRAPBOOK II. Description of book:

(Dark green - leger design on front)

TITLE: Scrap book of ANed@ Gourdin - H.A.A. (Harvard Athletic

Association) - Printed Matter 1920 - 1921

Inside front cover - pasted cartoon title AHarvard=s wonderful

Track and Field Performer, like the writer, Dumas, is a

Mixture of French, Belgian and African@

1. Front page A Printed matter used by the Harvard

University Football Association@

2. Inside back cover - newspaper column AThe Melting Pot@ 1920 E.O.G. highlighted

Various newspapers clippings about E.O.G. & others

3. One copy of AThe Harvard Crimson@ Newspaper - Class of

>46 Edition - June 16, 1971

(Total - 142 scrap book pages, 7 loose articles (in plastic

sheets)

SCRAPBOOK III Description of book: Grey with rose medallion

TITLE: Album (fragile)

Inside front cover - article AGourdin Marvel Athlete@ Last page - Newspaper article AGourdin among 102 passing bar

exams@ 1921 - 1925 Various newspaper clips of various political figures,

short stories and pictures

(Total pages 44)

SCRAPBOOK IV. Description of book:

Grey, ivory and very faded pink

1939, 1942, 1943, 1951

Correspondence - Congratulations on judicial appointment

TLS Dever, Governor Paul - Confirming nomination as Special Justice, Municipal

Court

TLS Long Island Broadcasting Corporation -

TLS Massachusetts State Union of Women=s Clubs -

ALS Smith, Ruth Lofton

TLS Lewis, William H., Jr.

TLS Robert Gould Shaw House

ALS Hall, Dr. John B.

TLS Holtz, Lt. Colonel Jackson

TLS Public Housing Administration

TLS Lewis, Walter Frederick

TLS Lamond, Thomas

TLS Comins, William A.

TLS Lane, David E.

ALS Hickson, De Haven, M.D.

TLS Benjamin, Edgar P.

TLS Teixeira, Roy E.

TLS Moskow, Max J.

TLS Mahon, Henry (Harvard Alumni Bulletin)

TLS Cronin, Edward (Secretary of the Commonwealth)

TLS Robinson, Justice G. Bruce

TLS Porcj, Irwin T.

ALS Levine, Bernard L.

TLS Rivers, Judge Francis E.

TLS Mulhall, James

TLS Curtis, Lawrence

TLS Porter, Chief Justice Harry H.

TLS Guild, Ray W.

TLS Donovan, John L. Deputy Regional Director, G.S.A.

TLS Lucas, Colonel Wilmer F., State Insurance Fund

TLS Dangel, Edward M.

TLS Mitchell, Joseph S.

TLS Anderson, Charles F.

TLS Kelly, Dan, State Supervisor of Physical Education

ALS Hardell, Everett S.

ALS Glick,David

ALS Hills, J. Seth , M.D.

TLS Hamilton, West

TLS Davis, Paul D.

TLS McCurdy, Theo. E.A. , M.D., L.R.C.S. Edin.

TLA McGrath, Attorney General J. Howard

TLS McGrath, District Judge William T. Regrets for speaking engagement

SCRAPBOOK IV A. MANUSCRIPTS

. 1942 POEM TO THE GIRLS AT THE STAGE DOOR CANTEEN

1. Letter to white members about the Negroes as members of the Canteen. Philosophy as to

races co-existing. Two type written pages, glued firmly down on fragile album paper.

PRINTED MATERIAL

2. Newspaper photograph of Langston Hughes

3. 1943 - Christmas Day cards

4. National Urban League - Meeting and dinner 2/42

5. Newspaper Clip and Photograph of E.O.G. giving Christmas greeting with comments about

global war and social maladjustments (undated)

6. Menu from testimonial dinner for President of the Republic of Liberia, Edwin Barclay

SCRAPBOOK V. Description of book: Dark brown

TITLE: ALBUM

1. Telegrams of congratulation cards and letters of support on

appointment to Massachusetts Superior Court

2. Correspondence to Judge E.O.G. and to and from Governor

Foster Furcolo

3. Copy of original Boston Sunday Herald April 25, 1965 page

with title ADo you remember?@ ANed@ Gourdin sets world

record for broad jump, July 23, 1921