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  • Restrictions on Access
  • Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
  • Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
  • Provenance/Source of Acquisition
  • UCLA Catalog Record ID
  • Preferred Citation
  • Processing Information
  • Biography
  • Scope and Content
  • Organization and Arrangement
  • Existence and Location of Copies

  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Georgia Philipps Morgan Bullock papers
    Creator: Bullock, Georgia Philipps Morgan
    Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1374
    Physical Description: 32.0 Linear Feet (18 boxes, 23 cartons, and 23 oversize boxes)
    Date (inclusive): 1890-1957
    Abstract: Collection contains correspondence, clippings, speech files, and scrapbooks relating to the legal career of Georgia Phillips Morgan Bullock, attorney and first woman judge of the California Superior Court.
    Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English.

    Restrictions on Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

    Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

    Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

    PORTIONS OF THIS COLLECTION HAVE BEEN DIGITIZED. See the Online Items Available note for the link to the digitized materials.
    • Gift of Georgia Bullock, 1954 and 1955.
    • Gift of Edna Bullock, 1980-1986.

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 997095133606533 

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Georgia Philipps Morgan Bullock Papers (Collection 1374). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Processing Information

    Processed by UCLA Library Special Collections staff.
    Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
    We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the materials we steward, and to remediating existing description of our materials that contains language that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our collections are described, and how they could be described more accurately, by filling out the form located on our website: Report Potentially Offensive Description in Library Special Collections. 

    Biography

    Born as Georgia Philipps Morgan in Chicago, 1878; married William Wingfield Bullock in 1899 and had two children; attended Univ. of Southern California (LL.B, 1914), and Southwestern Univ. (LL.D); admitted to CA bar in 1913; deputy district attorney, LA; appointed police judge, 1924-26; judge, LA Municipal Court, 1926-31; judge, CA Superior Court, LA County, 1931-56; retired in 1956; died Aug. 29, 1957.

    Scope and Content

    Collection contains correspondence, clippings, speech files, and scrapbooks relating to the legal career of Georgia Phillips Morgan Bullock, attorney and first woman judge of the California Superior Court.

    Organization and Arrangement

    Arranged in the following series:
    1. Professional and personal files (boxes 1-14)
    2. Calendars (boxes 15-17)
    3. Documents and scrapbooks related to legal career (boxes 18-40)
    4. Awards, printed material, photographs (box 32)
    5. Microfilm reel of testimonial (box 41).

    Existence and Location of Copies

    Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online: Georgia Philipps Morgan Bullock Papers (2 items) .

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Women judges -- California, Southern -- Archives.
    Scrapbooks.
    Bullock, Georgia Philipps Morgan, 1878-1957--Archives.