Bernard E. Harcourt collection on Doyle Lee Hamm, 1919-2023

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Series II: Family Photographs, Letters, and Personal Items

(All obtained during the mitigation investigation of Doyle Lee Hamm's Alabama death penalty case)



Box 2 Accordion folder labelled "Family photographs"

(Two envelopes of photographs of the Hamm family going back to the 1930s, a little plastic photo album, large photos of Doyle Lee Hamm, Eula Mae Hamm (mother), Major Edward Hamm (father), grandparents, the Hamm boys and girls, as well as an address book, folder marked "Doyle Hamm Identifications" with Doyle Hamm's written notes identifying the people in the photographs)


Box 2 Folder with letters Doyle Hamm received from Paula Cook and some letters by DLH


Box 2 Folder with letters from Doyle Hamm to his mother and family


Box 2 Accordion folder with correspondence from Doyle Hamm to mother and some miscellaneous letters


Box 2 Folder with family correspondence to Mrs. Hamm from Hamm brothers, cards from Hamm brothers (Jimmy, Danny, O'Neal, and others)


Box 2 Accordion folder with letters and materials re. Jimmy Harold Hamm labeled "Jimmy Hamm from Mrs. Hamm's papers," including Federal Bureau of Prisons administrative documents, attorney materials, trial documents, and correspondence