Adolph Sutro papers : additions, 1874-1892 (bulk 1888-1892).

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Adolph Sutro papers : additions, 1874-1892 (bulk 1888-1892).

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Correspondence and papers detailing Sutro's involvement with San Francisco streetcars, beach improvements at Sutro Heights (the Cliff House), and road construction. Includes several labor reports, 1890, for work at the beach at Sutro Heights; typed draft articles of incorporation of the Sutro Railroad Company to operate and construct street railroads in San Francisco; manuscript specifications for a windmill at the Cliff House; manuscript draft of indenture for a road connecting Clarendon Avenue and Park Lane.

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Sutro Railroad Company (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Cliff House (San Francisco, Calif.)

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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...