Charles Solomon Papers
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Abstract
Charles Solomon was a socialist, a New York State Assemblyman, and a New York City magistrate. Contains correspondence, legal papers relating to matters brought before Solomon as magistrate, manuscripts, clippings and scrapbooks.
Historical/Biographical Note
Charles Solomon was a socialist, a New York State Assemblyman (1919-1921) and a New York City magistrate (1936-1945, 1950-1959). He was one of five assemblymen expelled by the New York State Legislature in 1920 for being a Socialist. He was re-elected that same year. He later ran unsuccessfully as a Socialist candidate for governor, senator, and New York City mayor before joining the Liberal Party.
Arrangement
Organized into three series: I, Papers (arranged alphabetically: II, Scrapbooks (arranged alpabetically, then chronologically); Series III, Fragile Originals (arranged by box number).
Scope and Content Note
The papers include correspondence (including individual letters from Morris Hillquit and Harry Laidler), legal papers relating to matters brought before Solomon as magistrate, manuscripts of writings, radio scripts, addresses, published articles, printed debates including one with Scott Nearing, clippings (including some in Yiddish), and scrapbooks.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Tamiment Library has no information about copyright ownership for this collection and is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from it. Materials in this collection, which were created in 1916-1965, are expected to enter the public domain in 2034.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Charles Solomon Papers; TAM 041; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated (probably by Charles Solomon's daughters Mildred Clinton and Isabel Moros) in 1965. The accession number associated with this gift is 1965.004. Additional materials related to Solomon were found in Tamiment's collections in 2014. The accession number associated with these materials is 2014.048.
Separated Material
Photographs were separated to the Charles Solomon Photographs (PHOTOS 008)
