Helene Lawrence Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal correspondence, newsletters, photographs, newspaper clippings, event programs and a graduation invitation. This collection primarily focuses on Lawrence's achievements practicing law in the Coast Guard and Navy, and as a civilian practicing Immigration Law. The photographs not only contain pictures of Lawrence, but also with her husband, with other SPARS or military personnel, and another person who is unnamed. Most of the collection consists of photographs, newspaper and newsletter copies.
Dates
- 1939-1965
- Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2009
Creator
- Helene Poland Lawrence (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Biographical Note
Helene Poland Lawrence was born in Quincy, Massachusetts on 9 September 1913 to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Poland. She graduated from Quincy High School in February 1931, attended Northeastern Law School and graduated from Portia Law School in Boston, Massachusetts on 7 June 1939.
During World War II, she served as a lieutenant in the SPARS (U.S. Coast Guard women's reserve), and offciated at the first all-women's court martial in while stationed in Washington, D.C. After World War II she practiced law in Washington and Boston, before studying French at the University of Paris, graduating in 1949. Upon returning to the U.S. she joined the U.S. Naval Researve, and in 1950 spent at least two years in Germany serving as a federal attorney. Upon returning home she completed training in military and federal law at the Naval Research at the Pentagon, before leaving for Stuttgart, Germany for another two years.
After returning to the United States, Lawrence practiced law as an Immigration and Naturalization Service attorney in California and Washington, D.C. In 1958, she appeared on a television program about citizenship for Los Angeles' Channel 7 KABC TV News. She died in San Mateo, California on 24 May 2002.
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (2 folders )
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Source of Acquisition
eBay
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Processing Information
Processed by Julie Garling.
- Title
- Helene Lawrence Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Julie Garling
- Date
- 08/27/2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository