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City Central Committee, Socialist Party of San Francisco accounts book
SFH 715
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Title: City Central Committee, Socialist Party of San Francisco accounts book
Dates: 1920-1921
Collection Number: SFH 715
Creator/Collector:
Socialist Party (U.S.)
Extent: 1 volume
Repository:
San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco History Center
San Francisco, California 94102
Abstract: Receipts and expenses of a Socialist Party branch
Language of Material: English
The collection is open for research.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
[Identification of item]. City Central Committee, Socialist Party of San Francisco accounts book. Collection Number: SFH 715.
San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco History Center
Gift, 2022.
Biography/Administrative History
The new headquarters of the Socialist Party of San Francisco opened at 225 Valencia Street in mid-June 1919. Their periodical,
The Truth, began publishing in August of that year. Robert L. Hartford was probably their printer in 1920; the branch's chief
expenses were for advertising and printing. The Party's meeting rooms at 225 Valencia were identified as Marx Hall in July
1919; by September 1920 the building was known as Debs Hall. In 1925, Fabian Ortiz was listed as secretary at the Socialist
Party headquarters, 1212 Market Street. The nascent Communist Party is said to have drawn many members away from the Socialists.
Scope and Content of Collection
Volume includes register of Receipts and Expenses, September 25, 1920 through February 9, 1921. The first page of the volume
is a record of loans made to various members in late 1920.
Socialists--United States--History--Sources
Socialist Party (U.S.)--California--History
San Francisco (Calif.)--History