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No restrictions. Open for research.

Restrictions to Use

Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Frederick George Bromberg Papers #90, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from the Bromberg family in 1936.

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Processed by: Buck Beasley, June 1990

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, August and November 2020; January 2021

Compiled by Buck Beasley with assistance from John Baddley under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Alabama--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Bromberg, Frederick George, 1837-1930.
• Cedral Mines (Mexico)
• Estates (Law)--Alabama.
• Lawyers--Alabama--History.
• Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920.
• Mineral industries--Mexico--History--20th century.
• Mobile (Ala.)--History.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Alabama.
• United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

Frederick George Bromberg was born in New York City, 19 June 1837, and moved with his parents to Mobile, Alabama, in 1838. He graduated from Harvard University in 1858, and studied and tutored there, 1861-1865.

Bromberg held a number of political positions in Mobile following the Civil War: treasurer of Mobile, 1867-1869; state senator, 1868-1872; postmaster of Mobile, 1869-1871; and U.S. Representative, 1873-1875. He was a Liberal Republican.

Bromberg was admitted to the bar in 1877 and began practicing in Mobile. He remained an active lawyer in his own office, and served as president of the state bar in 1906. He died in Mobile, 4 September 1930.

Information for this note was taken from The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989.

This collection consists chiefly of papers relating to Bromberg's legal cases in Mobile, Alabama, 1877-1924. Most of these cases dealt with real estate sales or inheritance, and the papers are largely routine. Small amounts of material appear relating to Reconstruction, the Freedmen's Bureau, Alabama politics, and the Cedral mines in Mexico. These items are imbedded in large amounts of other material; however, they can be accessed by keeping in mind the dates of the items: Reconstruction material is chiefly in the late 1860s, and Mexican revolution material peaks in 1911.

The correspondence and legal documents relating to Bromberg's cases have been divided into subseries based on phases of Bromberg's career. Bills and receipts have been separated from other material, and are not chronologically arranged; these items also relate to Bromberg's clients. Series also appear for miscellaneous personal items, and for pictures.

• Photographs (PF-00090/1)
• Oversize papers (XOPF-90/1)