Inventory of the Charles Louis Schlom Papers, 1874-1983
Collection Number 5313-z
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Schlom, Charles Louis, 1880-1950.
- Title
- Charles Louis Schlom Papers, 1874-1983
- Call Number
- 5313-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English, Russian, German, and Hebrew
- Extent
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- Items: 37
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Administrative Information
- Acquisitions Information
- Received from Margaret Sachs of Chapel Hill, N.C., in 2007 (Acc. 100599, 100759).
- Processing Information
- Processed by: Amanda Ross, January 2008
- Encoded by: Amanda Ross, January 2008
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Charles Louis Schlom Papers #5313-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Family--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
- Greenville (Miss.)--Commerce.
- Greenville (Miss.)--History.
- Immigrants--Mississippi.
- Jewelers--Mississippi.
- Jewish businesspeople--Mississippi.
- Jewlry trade--Mississippi.
- Jews--Latvia.
- Jews--Mississippi.
- Jews--Southern States.
- Merchants--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Schlom family.
- Schlom, Charles Louis, 1880-1950.
Biographical Note
Born to a family of Jewish craftspeople near Riga, Latvia, Charles Louis Schlom emigrated to America to avoid religious persecution. He and his grandmother were resettled in Galveston, Tex. As an adult, Charles Louis Schlom traveled throughout the United States, eventually opening a coat shop in Memphis, Tenn. In November 1905, Schlom became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He married Nellie Ethel Freeman, and the two followed his friend, Marcy Hartman, to Greenville, Miss., in April 1908. That June, the couple's first child, Zelda Schlom (later Sachs), was born. Three more children followed: Lillian (1910), David (1912), and Fannie Helen (1919). Schlom purchased a jewelry store in 1908, which he expanded and passed on to his relations. Zelda and her husband Irvin Sachs took over the business in 1945. Their daughter Joanne Sachs Skibell and her husband Bernard Skibell moved to Greenville, Miss., in 1955 to become active in the family business.
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The collection includes documents related to the Schlom family, a Jewish family of craftspeople in Latvia; legal and financial papers, including the naturalization papers, property deed and loan papers, and last will and testament of merchant Charles Louis Schlom; letters and materials sent to Schlom and newspaper clippings related to the purchase and operation of his Greenville, Miss., jewelry store; photographs of Charles Louis Schlom, family members, and the store; a biographical sketch of Charles Louis Schlom by his oldest daughter, Zelda Schlom Sachs; and other materials.
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Photographs (P-5313/Folder 1)
Detailed Description of the Collection
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