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ACCN 2567
Herbert S. Auerbach papers
1843-2001
Auerbach, Herbert S. (Herbert Samuel), 1882-1945
7.75 linear feet
16 boxes
The Herbert S. Auerbach papers (1843-2001) consist of correspondence, notes, names, addresses, legal contracts and assorted materials.
Collection material is in
English.
Biographical Sketch
Herbert S. Auerbach was born on 4 October, 1882 in Salt Lake City, Utah. After graduating from high school in Salt Lake City in 1896, he attended classes in Germany and Switzerland receiving diplomas in industrial studies in 1898 and 1899. In 1905 Auerbach graduated from Columbia University with a degree in mining engineering and in the following year Herbert earned a master's degree in electrometallurgy from Columbia University. Prior to serving as a major in the U.S. Army in World War I, he worked as a manager for mining, real estate and department store firms in Idaho, Colorado, and Utah. Auerbach returned to his pre-war position as an executive in his family's Salt Lake City department store following World War I, and eventually became its president. Business interests represented only one part of a man whose intellectual and cultural pursuits and accomplishments were multi-faceted and extraordinary. A historian by avocation, Herbert translated Father Escalante's journal, authored several articles in western history, and was president of the Utah Historical Society's Board of Control from 1936-1945. In addition to being a colllector of Western Americana, Auerbach purchased numerous Joseph Smith family possessions which he donated to the LDS Church. Among his many other achievements were that of a concert violinist, a poet, a composer of over one hundred ballads and religious songs, a philanthropist and a state legislator. He died on 19 March 1945 and his funeral took place in the LDS Church's Assembly Hall in Salt Lake City.
The Herbert S. Auerbach papers (1843-2001) consists of two parts. The first part (boxes 1-3) consists of personal materials including correspondence between Auerbach family members, hand-written music and poems, and personal items including wallets and stationaries. Box 2 also contains Herbert S. Auerbach's Senate Journal and other senate materials. The second part of the collection (boxes 4-15) includes buisiness records and materials of the Auerbach Company and the Auerbach Realty Company. In these boxes mortgage, loans, construction, insurance, legal contracts and correspondence can be found. The Auerbach company materials also includes materials from the Auerbach Department Store in downtown Salt Lake City including shopping catalogues and and pamplets.
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Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Photographs have been transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Donated by Joseph and Marjorie Jones family, LLC (box 1) in 2010 and by Ken Sanders (boxes 2-15) in 2011.
Processed by Roger V. Paxton in 2010.
Addendum processed by Chelsea Olsen in 2014.
Addendum (box 16) processed by Chelsea Olsen in 2016.
Auerbach, Herbert S. (Herbert Samuel), 1882-1945--Archives
Auerbach Company
Department stores--Utah
Business enterprises--Utah--Salt Lake City
Correspondence
Correspondence
Notes
Personal materials
1
1-4
Correspondence
1904-1944
1
5
Names and addresses
1
6
Names and notes
1
7
Notes
1
8
Notes: La Rae (Ray/Bill) Lindsay
1933-1941
1
9
Assorted materials
1918-1944
2
1
Senate journal
1925
2
1
Herbert S. and Madeline Auerbach correspondence
1911-1945
2
2-3
Sheet music
Includes hand-written sheet music written by Herbert S. Auerbach.
2
4
"Joseph Haydn's Sammtliche Sonaten" songbook
2
5
Poems and songs
Many of these items are handwritten originals
2
6
Professional materials
3
1
Family correspondence
1857-1929
3
2
Family sketches, portraits, and traveling documents
3
3
Estate of Frederick Samuel Auerbach
1975
3
4
Fred F. Auerbach Foundation
1967-1968
3
5
Fred F. Auerbach
1984
1998
3
6
General materials (News)
1994
1998
3
7
Fanny F. Auerbach stationary
3
8
Fanny F. Auerbach wallet
3
9
Fred Auerbach wallet
3
10
Mrs. L.R. Samuels wallet
3
11
Helen M. Bachman's stock certificates
1957-1977
Auerbach Company
Property records
4
1
Block 56 Plat A
1889-1890
4
2
Block 56, Plat A Blueprints (Knutsford and Linden Hotels)
1890
4
3
Knutsford property and Western Hotel Company records
1890-1902
4
4
Cunningham mortgages
1906-1915
4
5
Lease agreements and cancellations of "Pittsburg Block" property
1909
4
6
Knutsford property accounts from Western Hotel Company
1909
4
7
Land purchases and mortgage records
1904-1915
4
8
Knutsford Hotel and Auerbach building
1910-1912
4
9
Auerbach Store remodeling contract
1911
4
10
Land purchase agreements and William Graupe shareholder agreement
1911
4
11
General records
Includes Knutsford and other Auerbach properties.
5
1-2
Knutsford Building additions, Linden Hotel and Stores mortgages
1917-1929
Folder includes documents from Tracy Loan and Trust Company, the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company covering the same Mortgages.
5
3
Linden Hotel
1914-1922
5
4
Linden Hotel elevation sketch
1936
5
5
Keith O'Brien store
1911-1926
5
6
Land purchase
1928
Stocks, Loans, Insurance, Legal, Acquisitions, and Service Contracts
5
7
Original stock certificates
1910-1967
5
8
Stock records
5
9
Trackers
Includes trackers for mortgages, notes, taxable income, and real estate.
5
10
L.R. Samuels correspondence
1959-1969
5
11
Interest and principle payments from L.R. Samuels Company
1967
6
1
Colonial property and Samuel H. Auerbach real estate statements
1911
6
2
Sale of property to Agnes Doherty
1921
6
3
Equitable Life Assurance Society records
1912-1919
6
4
Walker Bank loans and payments
1936-1945
6
5
Insurance policy correspondence
1913-1919
6
6
Company appraisals
1910-1931
6
7
Taxes
1916-1917
6
8
Acquisitions
1904-1936
Includes purchases of Jacobs Realty Company, Levy Realty Company, Bennett Art Shop, and Dryers Book Shop.
6
9
Wright Brothers and Sons Company liquidations sale to Auerbach Company
6
10
Legal documents
1915-1972
The contents of this folder includes the Roebuck Suit, Rella Gleason vs Auerbach Company subpoena, George S. Auerbach vs. JM Mcdonald, the Fidelity Bond Settlement, and the Lease termination of a beauty salon leased to Delbry and Laura Heap.
6
11
Claims filed with Ocean Accident and Guarantee Company
1938-1939
6
12
Samuel and Evelyn Auerbach tax records
1914-1923
7
1
Annual audit
1941
7
2
Auerbach Company and Auerbach Realty Company insurance policy
1942
7
3
Auerbach Company insurance
1945
7
4
Certificates of insurance
1954-1968
Insurance certificates are for their property on State Street and Broadway. This folder also contains correspondence regarding building materials stored on the property.
7
5-6
Insurance records and policies
1948-1969
7
7
Sprinkler contracts and invoices
1943-1945
7
8
Service and employment agreements
1945-1947
7
9
Gas Pipeline paperwork
1930
1950
7
10
Safe combinations
1941
7
11
Notes and interest payments
1907-1920
7
12
Walker Brothers Bankers German Bank Exchange
1914
7
13
Walker Bank and Trust Company loans and mortgages
1918-1972
Capital expenditures
8
1
Trademark registration pPapers
1923-1924
Registration includes papers for the "MeadowBrook," "Belle Flower," and "Golden Value" butter.
8
2
"Jenny Lee" clothing trademark papers
1924-1932
8
3-4
Power and lighting contracts (Utah Lights and Railway Company)
1911-1925
8
5
Service agreements
1929-1935
8
6
Application to sell light beer on draft
1917
1935-1936
8
7-9
Neon sign display
1916-1938
8
10-11
Additions, repairs, and equipment
1919-1938
8
11
Substation removal correspondence
1936
9
1
Service and sales agreement
1956-1962
9
2-6
Auerbach refacing project, first estimate
1960
9
7
Auerbach remodeling project
1962
9
8
Mortgage records
1961-1967
Includes a mortgage owed to L.R. Samuels, Fan F. Suels, Frederick F. Auerbach, Agnes L. Stewart, and Ernest C. Kimball. It also includes a mortgage owed to L.R. Samuels, Fran F. Samuels, Frederick F. Auerbach, Ernest C. Kimball, Florence Schoburg, and G. Wayne Clarke.
Auerbach Store
10
1
The Economical Shopping Guide and Fashions for Shopping
1900-1902
10
1-7
The Economical Shopping Guide
1904-1910
10
8
Rabbit Creek, California (Fred Auerbach's First Store)
10
9-10
Anniversary 80 Years of Service Auerbach Co. Salt Lake City, Utah
1944
10
2
Anniversary
10
3
Bridal pamphlets
circa 1950
10
4
Sketches and events
10
5
Advertisements
1866-1985
10
6
Inventory records
1931, 1934
10
7
Books materials
Tenants records
11
1
Mortgage to Mathew Cullen
1915
11
2
Bill of Sale, 42 East Broadway
1945
11
3
Tenant lease agreements
1938-1959
Includes properties: 107, 109, 111, 113, and 115 East Broadway
11
4
Tenant lease agreements
1930-1965
Includes properties: 117, 119, 121, and 123 East Broadway
11
5
Tenant lease agreements
1940-1943
Includes properties: 125, and 127-129 East Broadway
11
6
Tenant lease agreements
1938-1957
Includes properties: 259, 261, and 263 South State Street
11
7
Tenant lease agreements
1932-1941
Includes properties: 265 and 267 South State Street.
11
8
Tenant lease agreements
1932-1960
Includes properties: 267 and 271 South State Street.
11
9
Tenant lease agreements
1909-1959
Includes properties: 272-274 and 317 South State Street
11
10
Property leases
1963
11
11
General lease materials
1943-1951
11
12
Certificates of insurance for leased properties
1961-1963
Centre Theatre
12
1
Permit for building/construction undertaking
1935-1940
12
2
Construction contracts and correspondence
1936-1938
12
3
Remodeling agreements
1937-1938
12
4-5
"Specifications for Construction and Erection of a Store and Theatre Building..."
12
6
Theatre and store building "Hardware" and "Addenda A"
1937
12
7
Certificate of acceptance and completion
1937
12
8
Lease and lease extensions
1937-1970
12
9
Knutsford Hotel demolition for Centre Theatre records
1935-1936
Victory Theatre
12
10
Lease
1937-1939
12
11
Basement correspondence
1950-1957
General materials
13
1
Brooks Company sells to Publix-Salt Lake Inc.
1930
13
2
District No. 224
1935
13
3
IXL Stores lease to Auerbach Company
1943-1944
13
4
Envelopes
13
5
General
Auerbach Realty Company
Real estate statements and tenants
14
1
Real estate statements
1913-1920
14
2
Agreements with tenants
1916-1938
Tenants include Ashton-Jenkins, Richard W. Young, Grace and Clyde Thompson, Dert Development, MM Warner Company, Wilson Brothers, the Brooks Arcade, and the Western Auo Supply Company.
14
4
Tenant lease agreements
1931-1943
14
5
Tenant lease agreements
1935-1945
Includes properties: 61, 69, 71, and 162 East Broadway.
14
Tenant lease agreements
1932-1939
Includes properties: 201, 212-216, and 264 South State Street.
14
7
Tenant lease agreements
1932-1957
Includes properties: 266, 270, 309-310, 323,and 325 South State Street.
Tax and legal records
15
1
Madeline Auerbach and Company tax records
1916-1919
15
2
Tax returns
1917-1923
This folder also includes a small portion of Walker Realty financial records from 1923.
15
3-5
Tax records
1920-1922
15
6
Selena Auerbach and Company tax records
1920-1923
15
7
Power of Attorney documents to Madeline Werner
1945
Auerbach family and Auerbach Store materials
16
1
"Electrolytic Treatment of Galena", and "Processes for Treating Certain Ores" patent
1907
1909
16
2
Auerbach family documents
1918
1945
16
3
Correspondence
1850-1912
16
4
Professional correspondence
1874-1973
16
5
Book of accounts - George Lamb and Articles of Agreement between George Lamb and Jeremiah Newby
1843-1863
16
6
News clippings
1920-2001
- Samuel H. Auerbach funeral
- Knutsford Hotel
- Victory Theatre fire
- Auerbachs sponsored teams
- General Auerbach family clippings
16
7
Auerbachs Store advertisements
16
8
Auerbach Store bags and packaging
16
9
Pay stubs and purchase receipts of Leola R. Jackson
16
10
Report of the State Historical Society of Utah
1938