Solomon Lewis Switzer papers

Collection

Identifier: Wing-Modern-MS-Switzer

Staff Only

Scope and Content of the Collection

Largely drafts and documents concerning Switzer’s Trolley Ride Through Story Land and the company Switzer founded to publish it. There are also manuscripts of some of Switzer’s other poetry and a keepsake for the conferral of a doctorate in physiology to C. E. King from the University of Chicago.

Dates

Creation: 1911-1929

Creator

Switzer, Solomon Lewis, 1868-1928 (Person)

Language

Materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

The Solomon Lewis Switzer papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Ownership and Literary Rights

The Solomon Lewis Switzer papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections at reference@newberry.org.

Biography of Solomon Lewis Switzer

Chicago barber, salesman and poet.

S. L. Switzer was born in Indiana in 1868 and married Ida Augusta Hennings in 1894. The couple came to Chicago before 1900 and eventually had eight children. Switzer died on March 4, 1928 in Elgin, Ill., and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Evergreen Park, Ill.