Early San Francisco : scrapbook, ca. 1885-1920.

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Early San Francisco : scrapbook, ca. 1885-1920.

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Includes numerous original and reproduced photographs of San Francisco and environs (including the President Rutherford B. Hayes visit to the Ralston home in Belmont, 1870). There are artists' renditions of Rincon Hill, Market Street, and Sonora, and an unusual set of some 56 photographs of Sutro Heights, together with a plan and brochure for the park. There are also portraits of Adolph Sutro, Andrew Carnegie, and Joaquin Miller.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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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...

Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893

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Rutherford B. Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822 and earned degrees from Kenyon College and Harvard Law School before starting a career as a lawyer in Cincinnati. Hayes served as a major general in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1864. Hayes then was elected Governor of Ohio and later served one term as President of the United States (1877-1881) before retiring to his home in Fremont, Ohio, where he died in 1893.President of the Uni...