Title:
Matthew A. Schmidt papers, 1906-1952
Creator/Contributor:
Schmidt, Matthew A., creator
Abstract:
Contains correspondence, clippings, and other items related to his trial. Also includes photographs of Schmidt, his sister,
and of friends.
Date:
1906 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Schmidt, Matthew A -- Archives
Schmidt, Matthew A -- Portraits
Schmidt, Matthew A -- Trials, litigation, etc
Los Angeles Times (Firm) -- History
Anarchists -- California
Trials (Anarchy) -- California
Note:
Matthew A. Schmidt papers, BANC MSS 2007/156, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Matthew "Smitty" Schmidt, an anarchist, was convicted in 1916 for complicity in the Oct. 1, 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles
Times building. He was released on parole 30 years later. He then married Elizabeth Livermore who was friends with Hubert
and Florence Wyckoff. For more information on Schmidt see v. 2 of The Memoirs of Hubert C. Wyckoff, Jr. interviewed by Randall
Jarrell.
In English.
Type:
Photographs.
Physical Description:
print
1 box (.4 linear ft.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC MSS 2007/156LOCAL
Origin:
California