Louis Marcus (1880-1936) was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 9 January 1880. He came to Salt Lake City in 1907. He established a movie theater chain in Utah and other intermountain states, and served as the director of two Salt Lake City banks. A Republican, he was the only Jewish mayor of Salt Lake, serving from 1932-1936. He died in 1936.
The Louis Marcus papers (1902-1939) are a collection of documents from specific events in the life of Louis Marcus (1880-1936), his wife Gertrude (d. 1955), and their son, L. Howard Marcus (1919-1984). They include Louis Marcus' personal diary, and scrapbooks from his tenure as mayor of Salt Lake City in the 1930s. Of particular interest are the brochures and maps from pre-World War II Europe and Egypt. There are also brochures from the S.S. Queen Mary and the S.S. Normandie, two luxury ocean liners who were conscripted into service during WWII. While the S.S. Queen Mary is now docked at Long Beach, the S.S. Normandie was sunk by the Germans in 1942.
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Photographs have been transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (P0047).
Processed by Elizabeth Rogers in 2002.