Descriptive inventory for the Gottlieb & Schwartz records, 1921-1949

Series 1 contains legal documents such as notices and briefs, memoranda, correspondence, financial reports, and company literature related to efforts to reorganize the Chicago Surface Lines and unify Chicago public transit prior to 1935. Includes materials related to failed transit unification plans from 1930 and 1934, and a 1930 ordinance to enable unification. Also present are documents pertaining to the sales, receiverships, and bondholders' protective committees of individual Chicago Surface Lines member companies, especially Chicago City Railway Company and Calumet & South Chicago Railway Company.

Series 2 consists of briefs, notices, memoranda, meeting minutes, correspondence, court transcripts, drafts, printers' proofs, clippings, research materials, and other documents related to the work of the 1935 Reorganization Committee, or Abbott Committee, to create a plan of reorganization for the Chicago Surface Lines. The series contains findings and recommendations of the Abbott Committee, as well as amendments and objections to the plan from Chicago Surface Lines bondholders and others. Also present are some materials on a proposed merger with the elevated lines.

Series 3 contains briefs, notices, memoranda, pamphlets, financial reports, correspondence, court transcripts, research materials, and other documents related to efforts to unify Chicago public transit. The series contains a 1938 report by court advisor Walter Shaw, which formed the basis for subsequent unification plans. Also included are materials on such subjects as a proposed ordinance providing for transit unification, the creation of a subway system, negotiations for the unification of Chicago Surface Lines and Chicago Rapid Transit, and transit fares, as well as valuations hearings for the Chicago Surface Lines, reports by the Security Exchange Commission, materials addressing Chicago Surface Lines bondholders, statements from bondholder committees, and literature on "Chicago's traction problem."

Series 4 contains briefs and other legal documents, exhibits, drafts of court documents, and transcripts of hearings that took place before federal judges James H. Wilkerson and Michael L. Igoe in district court. Much of the series consists of court transcripts, dating from 1935 to 1949. Also present are bound volumes of exhibits for a 1945 hearing on amended unification plans. Box 71 contains copies of reports on land owned by railroad companies in states other than Illinois, created by the Interstate Commerce Commission's Bureau of Valuation in the 1910s.

Series 5 contains briefs, transcripts, exhibits, abstracts of testimony, pamphlets, memoranda, correspondence, research materials, drafts, and other documents related to ICC hearings on transit unification plans. Includes materials pertaining to valuation of transit companies, fares, and universal transfers. Present are 6 boxes of published volumes of transcripts and exhibits from ICC hearings in 1942 and 1943.

Series 6 consists of newspaper clippings and FTC press releases and memoranda related to the Walsh Resolution, public utilities, and investigations of utility companies. Some correspondence accompanies newspaper clippings. Also includes two scrapbooks.

Series 7 consists of reports, transcripts, and summaries of FTC proceedings related to the investigation of public utility companies. Also included are some pamphlets and booklets related to the Walsh Resolution and the legality of the FTC's investigation into public utilities