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Descriptive inventory for the Gottlieb & Schwartz records, 1921-1949 |
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Collection Overview +/-
Title: | Gottlieb & Schwartz records, 1921-1949 (inclusive) |
Creators: | Gottlieb & Schwartz (Law firm : Chicago, Ill.) |
Friedman, William J. | |
Gottlieb, Harry N. | |
Schwartz, Charles K | |
Schwartz, Ulysses S. | |
Calumet and South Chicago Railway Company | |
Chicago Surface Lines | |
Chicago City Railway Company | |
Chicago Railways Company | |
Chicago Transit Authority | |
United States--Federal Trade Commission | |
Dates: | 1921-1949 (inclusive) |
Accession number: | M1972.0012 |
Bib number: | 00065640 |
Call number: | MSS Lot G |
Size: | 30 linear ft. (71 boxes) |
Language of material: | Collection is written in English. |
Provenance statement:
Most of the collection is a gift of the University of Chicago Law School (accession #: M1972.0012). Scrapbooks pertaining to his career were a gift of Ulysses S. Schwartz.
Terms governing use:
Copyright may be retained by the the creators of items, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law, unless otherwise noted.
Restriction(s):
This collection is open for research use.
Please cite this collection as:
Gottlieb & Schwartz records (Chicago History Museum) plus a detailed description, date, and box/folder number of a specific item.
Collection Summary +/-
Briefs, notices, agreements, transcripts, drafts of legal documents, court exhibits, research files, memoranda, correspondence, pamphlets, clippings, and other records of the Chicago law firm Gottlieb & Schwartz. The firm represented bondholders of the Chicago Surface Lines, and the collection includes notices to bondholders and copies of bondholders' protective agreements, as well as financial assessments and valuations of the Chicago Surface Lines. Most of the materials in the collection relate to the unification of Chicago public transit, especially as it influenced Chicago Surface Lines bondholders. Also present are materials on plans for the reorganization of the Chicago Surface Lines and Chicago public transit, as well as on city ordinances created to enable transit unification. Present are transcripts and exhibits from federal district court and Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) hearings on transit reorganization and unification plans.
The collection also contains transcripts of hearings, clippings, press releases, pamphlets, and correspondence related to Senate Resolution 83, known as the Walsh Resolution, which passed in 1928 and lead to an investigation of public utility holding companies by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Biographical/Historical Note +/-
Gottlieb & Schwartz (later Gottlieb, Schwartz & Friedman) was a Chicago law firm whose clients included bondholders of the Chicago Surface Lines. The firm represented bondholders of Chicago City Railway Company and Calumet & South Chicago Railway Company, two member companies of the Chicago Surface Lines, during the transition to a unified transit system and the creation of the Chicago Transit Authority. Members of the firm included Harry N. Gottlieb, Charles K. Schwartz and William J. Friedman. Ulysses S. Schwartz, brother of Charles Schwartz, initially represented the bondholders of the two railway companies in court until Friedman replaced him in 1939.
Catalog Subject Headings +/-
Subjects: |
Actions and defenses--Illinois--Chicago--20th century |
Law firms--Illinois--Chicago--20th centory |
Lawyers--Illinois--Chicago--20th century |
Local transit--Illinois--Chicago--20th century |
Public utilities--Illinois--Chicago--20th century |
Public utilities--Law and legislation--Illinois--Chicago |
Railroad companies--Illinois--Chicago--20th century |
Railroads, Elevated--Illinois--Chicago--20th century |
Street-railroads--Illinois--Chicago--20th century |
Street-railroads--Law and legislation--Illinois--Chicago |
Persons: |
Friedman, William J |
Gottlieb, Harry N |
Schwartz, Charles K. |
Schwartz, Ulysses S., 1887--Archives |
Organizations: |
Calumet and South Chicago Railway Company |
Chicago City Railway Company |
Chicago Railways Company |
Chicago Surface Lines |
Chicago Transit Authority |
Gottlieb & Schwartz (Law firm : Chicago, Ill.)--Archives |
United States--Federal Trade Commission |
Genre/Form: |
Agreements |
Briefs (legal documents) |
Correspondence |
Financial records |
Legal notices |
Minutes |
Newspaper clippings |
Pamphlets |
Press releases |
Reports |
Research (document genres) |
Scrapbooks |
Testimonies |
Geographic: |
Chicago (Ill.)--Commerce--20th century |
Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government--20th century |
Organization and Arrangement of Collection +/-
The collection is arranged in seven series.
About This Finding Aid +/-
Creation: | Finding aid encoded by Karrah Kuykendall using Oxygen Editor, 2016; revised by Julie Wroblewski, 2016. |
Language: | Finding aid is written in English. |
Other Finding Aids: | Finding aid also submitted to the Explore Chicago Collections portal. |