Series: 1. Human Rights, 1948-1980
Scope and Content Note: The Human Rights series contains materials relating to Bitker’s work as an attorney and on commissions in regards to human rights. There are reports, meeting agendas and minutes, correspondence and memos, newspaper clippings, press releases, articles and speeches. This includes topics such as civil rights, personal privacy, capital punishment and religious freedoms, nationally and internationally. There are also materials on various conferences and commissions he participated in.

American Bar Association, Committee on International Human Rights, 1974-1979

American Conventions on Human Rights, 1969-1980

Capital Punishment, 1971-1978

Civil Rights, 1959-1971

Helsinki Accord, 1976-1980

Human Rights

Miscellaneous, 1949-1980

Year, 1968

Year - Martha’s Vineyard Conference, 1968

International Covenants on Human Rights, 1967-1980

International Institute of Human Rights, 1970-1977

International League for the Rights of Man/League for Human Rights, 1968-1971

President’s Commission for the observance of Human Rights Year, 1968

Privacy, 1965-1974

Race and Racism – Correspondence, 1969-1975

Race and Racism – Papers and clippings, 1950-1976

Religious freedom, 1966-1970

United Nations International Conference on Human Rights, 1968

United States Foreign Policy and the International Bill of Human Rights, 1978

United States House of Representatives – Committee on Foreign Affairs, 1973

United States Senate – Foreign Relations Committee, 1979

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948-1979

Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 20th Anniversary; 25th Anniversary, 1968, 1973

Uppsala Colloquium on the Right to Leave and the Right to Return, 1972

Series: 2. Law and Peace, 1926-1984
Scope and Content Note: The Law and Peace series contains materials relating to Bitker’s interest and work in international peace keeping. There is an emphasis on arbitration and materials from various government agencies, the International Law Association, the American Bar Association, City of New York Bar Association and on international arbitration. There are materials from conferences he attended, committee meeting agendas and minutes, reports, correspondence, reports, educational resources, speeches and press releases.

American Bar Association – Committee on World Order Under Law, 1978-1981

Correspondence, Miscellaneous, 1926-1983

Correspondence - Proxmire, William, 1957-1971

Education for Peace, 1963-1982

Golda Meir International Week, 1980

International Arbitration, 1969-1976

International Cooperation Year, 1965

International Union of Local Authorities Conference, 1949

Law of Treaties, 1968-1969

Miscellaneous, 1898-1975

Sovereignty, 1945-1978

Terrorism, 1969-1978

World Peace Through Law, 1958-1984

Series: 3. Local Committees, 1932-1981
Scope and Content Note: The Local Committees series consists of correspondence, clippings, publications, reports and proceedings from the many Milwaukee area committees Bitker was on or involved with. This also includes some ephemera, pamphlets and articles produced by or about the groups.

Bicentennial material, 1972-1980

Bicentennial Material – Correspondence, 1974-1980

Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, 1967-1970

Mass transportation, 1955-1969

Mayor’s Committee on Cost of Living, 1947-1948

Mayor’s Study Commission on Social Problems in the Inner Core, 1959-1960

Milwaukee economic study commission, 1948-1949

Milwaukee Sewerage Commission, 1932-1981

Rapid Transit Lines, 1939-1976

United States Office of Price Administration - clippings, 1942-1976

United States Office of Price Administration – notes and papers, 1942-1945

Series: 4. Memorabilia, 1921-1982
Scope and Content Note: This series includes general memorabilia such as scrapbooks, a yearbook, buttons, pins, ticket stubs and medals. The Campaign ephemera includes 5 small envelopes labeled the following: lapel pins, medals and ribbons, miscellaneous, campaign buttons, pins and buttons; also included are loose tickets, badges, passes and an oversized button. The miscellaneous items contain the following: a bronze medal, a wooden plaque and picture, cassette tapes, birthday telegram mounted on wood, leather billfold, lapel pin and pink satin garters.

Campaign ephemera, 1921-1968, undated

Miscellaneous, 1959-1982, undated

Scrapbook I, 1931-1949

Scrapbook II, 1938

Scrapbook III, 1942-1944

Scrapbook IV, Milwaukee’s anti-inflation program, 1944

Scrapbook V, 1950-1954

Scrapbook VI, 1954-1958

Scrapbook VII, Governor’s Commission on the United Nations honors Bruno Bitker and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1983

Scrapbook VIII, Wisconsin Supreme Court campaign, 1958-1959
Physical Description: 1 volume 

Yearbook, West Division High School, Comet, 1958

Series: 5. Newspaper Clippings, 1931-1981
Scope and Content Note: The Newspaper clippings series contains clippings mainly from 1931-1981. They are organized chronologically with the exception of clippings from a Human Rights conference in Tehran in 1968.

Clippings, 1931-1981

Clippings, Tehran Journal, Human rights conference, 1968

Series: 6. Personal, 1898-1981
Scope and Content Note: The Personal series contains documents about or from Bitker’s personal life. Included are biographies, obituaries, his birth certificate, report cards and programs from his school days along with other ephemera, certificates, correspondence and clippings. There are also documents on his family’s history and correspondence from notable people such as Milwaukee’s Mayor Hoan and a Christmas card from President and Mrs. Carter. There are materials regarding professional appointments, positions, election campaigns, awards and honors received for his work and personal milestone celebrations such as his 75th and 85th birthdays.

Biographical information

Adulthood, 1924-1980

Childhood, 1898-1916

College and military life, 1917-1921

General (biographies, obituaries, funeral papers), 1944-1985

Birthday celebrations, 1973, 1983

Bitker family, 1915-1957

Bitker family - History of family names, 1929-1970, undated

Certificates

Appointments and memberships, 1922-1976

Awards, 1921-1964

Citations, tributes and awards, 1944-1978, undated

Federal Judgeship, attempt, 1948-1949

Grenville Clark Peace Prize and Commemorative Stamp, 1975-1981

James L. Cross Estate papers, 1964-1965

John Doe proceedings, 1948

Search for appointments, 1957-1964

United States Delegate to United Nations, attempt, 1960-1977

United States State Department Consultant, 1968

United States Supreme Court, 1927-1973

Wisconsin Supreme Court Campaign, 1959

Wisconsin Supreme Court Campaign – other candidates, 1958-1959

World Federalist Dinner, 1969

Zeidler, Frank, 1974

Series: 7. Photographs, 1905-1987
Scope and Content Note: The Photographs series is a box of images from Bitker’s personal and professional life. They include childhood photos through portraits used in his professional career along with group images.

Childhood (17 envelopes/20 photographs), 1905-1912, undated

College/US Army (12 items/15 photographs), 1918-1921, undated

Group photos, 1942-1987

Group photos – oversized, 1941-1977

Miscellaneous photos, undated

Portraits and single photos, 1931-1976

Signs, 2 District Court, undated

Series: 8. Speeches and Writings, 1944-1979
Scope and Content Note: The Speeches and Writings series contains materials written or given by Bitker. They are organized chronologically.

1944-1955, undated

1958-1963

1964-1979

Series: 9. United Nations, 1946-1984
Scope and Content Note: The United Nations series focuses on Bitker’s work with the United Nations. It includes reports, speeches, resolutions, proposals, publications and articles, correspondence, copies of the U.N. charter, speeches and materials relating to specific people he worked with. There are also materials from conferences along with annual reports and minutes from the Governor’s Commission on the United Nations.

Genocide – Correspondence, 1957-1980

Genocide – Paper and clippings, 1950-1981

Governor’s Commission on the United Nations, 1963-1984

Marquette University, 1961

Mid Atlantic Conference, 1978

McHenry, Donald, 1977-1979

Moynihan, Daniel P., 1975-1977

Stassen, Harold, 1967

Stevenson, Adlai, 1961-1965

United Nations

25th Anniversary, 1970

Association, 1967

Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, 1975

Charter Review, 1954-1981

Day, 1947-1982

Vatican, 1959-1965

War Crimes and Crimes against humanity, 1946-1973

Yost, Charles W, 1968-1978