Adolph Sutro papers, 1869-1899.

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Adolph Sutro papers, 1869-1899.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122387579

Collection includes correspondence dealing with construction of the Sutro Tunnel (1869-1890); applications for employment on the tunnel project (1873-1877) and in the Baths (1892-1895); personal bills (1869-1890); miscellaneous correspondence (1870-1895); miscellaneous papers and printed matter (1865-1889); and a safe book (1861-1899).

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6698393

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898

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Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro, originator of the Sutro Tunnel in Nevada and well-known figure in San Francisco, born of Jewish parents in 1830 at Aix-la-Chapelle in Germany, left school at sixteen, but continued his education by reading voraciously. From his father, a cloth manufacturer, Sutro learned factory management. After his father's death in 1847, with business ruined by the Prussian war, his mother, having to raise seven sons and four daughters, decided to emigrate to the Un...