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Description and Holding Information
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Chicago Law Institute Library Catalog, 1902 + supps. to 1943
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Index-catalog of the Library of the Chicago Law Institute to December 31, 1901: n.a., xxxiv+700 pp, Chicago, pr. for the Law Institute, 1944; Plus a
supplement issued in the year 1912, and two cumulative supplements issued in 1932 and 1943. A significant enhancement from the 1881 edition is that,
in addition o author and subject indexes, the titles are also organized by jurisdiction. However, since the organization of the material is rather
idiosyncratic, reference to the TOC on pages v-vi is highly recommended. While the 1943 supplement is cumulative for the years 1902-1943, the superseded
1912 and 1932 supplements have been retained for the use of people doing snapshot-in-time research. The Chicago Law Institute was founded in 1857 with
the “object and intention of its organization” being “for literary purposes, the cultivation of legal science, the advancement of jurisprudence, and
the formation of a law library in the City of Chicago, in the county of Cook.” The library had grown to about 7,000 volumes by October of 1871, when
the Great Chicago Fire totally destroyed the collection. Rebuilding began immediately, assisted by donations from around the country; e.g., a gift of
109 volumes of the English Statutes at large-“well bound”-from Professor Langdell of Harvard. Within a year of the fire 2,000 volumes had been
assembled, and by 1881, when the 1881 catalog was published, the collection had been rebuilt to ca. 14,000 volumes. By the time of the publication of the main
volume of this 1902 catalog, the Law Institute Library’s collection had grown to 38,224 volumes excluding duplicates. On 30 September 1963, the Cook
County Board of Commissioners established a new entity, the Cook County Law Library, as a library open to all in the legal community and to the
public. On 6 December 1965 the Institute was dissolved, its library in the County Building was closed, and its extensive, and in many ways unique,
collection was transferred to the new Cook County Law Library.)
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Title:
Index-catalogue of the library of the Chicago Law Institute to December 31, 1901.
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OCLC Number:
681827121
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