Herbert S. Auerbach papers

Collection

Identifier: ACCN 2567

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates

1843-2001

Creator

Auerbach, Herbert S. (Herbert Samuel), 1882-1945 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this Collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Conditions Governing Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

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.

Extent

7.75 Linear Feet (16 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The Herbert S. Auerbach papers (1843-2001) consist of correspondence, notes, names, addresses, legal contracts and assorted materials.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Joseph and Marjorie Jones family, LLC (box 1) in 2010 and by Ken Sanders (boxes 2-15) in 2011.

Separated Materials

Photographs have been transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Processing Information

Processed by Roger V. Paxton in 2010.

Addendum processed by Chelsea Olsen in 2014.

Addendum (box 16) processed by Chelsea Olsen in 2016.

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