Mar 24, 2022 - Sale 2598

Sale 2598 - Lot 349

Price Realized: $ 562
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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(POLITICS.) Papers of Nebraska legislator John Adams Jr. 15 items, mostly photographs, various sizes up to 20 x 16 inches; some wear, ranging from substantial to minimal. Nebraska, 1918-1940 and undated
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John Adams Jr. (1906-1999) was a University of Nebraska graduate and practiced law in Omaha. He served in the Nebraska Legislature as a Republican from 1935 to 1941. He stood out in the legislature for more than just his race; he was at least two decades younger than most of the other legislators. He left to serve as a captain in World War Two; his father the Rev. John Adams Sr. eventually won his seat. After the war, Adams Jr. practiced law in the San Francisco area. Offered here are:

A large 1935 group portrait of the legislature at their desks, with Adams up front in the lower right corner. 16 x 20 inches; worn with heavy horizontal crease.

7 other smaller group portraits of the legislature and its committees, both posed and candid, all including Adams, with minimal wear.

A group portrait of the annual meeting of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, moderate wear including loss of a corner, 8 x 19 3/4 inches, Kansas City, MO, 1940.

His certificates to practice law in Nebraska, 20 x 16 and 11 1/2 x 14 inches, mounted on board, 8 June 1929.

His certificate of election as a member of the Nebraska Legislature, 11 x 14 inches, 5 November 1940.

A worn newspaper clipping with caricatures of the Nebraska legislators including Adams, 7 May 1940.

A large photograph of a young girl, presumably his future wife Constance, 15 x 11 3/4 inches, 1918.

A group portrait of the wives of the legislators, apparently including a grown version of that same girl, 5 x 9 1/2 inches, undated.