Collection of Gerald John Kane, 1839-1952.

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Collection of Gerald John Kane, 1839-1952.

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The collection consists of letters and documents (including account books and business records) collected by Gerald John Kane related to the history of Nevada. It includes materials about mining companies, business firms, land, railroads, stage lines, and politics, centering around Austin, Nevada, and including Virginia City, Nye County, Ormsby County, Goldfield, Dayton, and Lander County. There are also materials about Adolph Sutro and the Sutro Tunnel Company.

Approximately 12,500 pieces.9 boxes.12 cartons.3 volumes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 6801933

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Kane, Gerald John, 1901-1957,

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Gerald John Kane, a Nevada historian and autograph collector. In addition to his interest in Nevada and its history, Kane was an enthusiastic collector of autographs. From the description of Autograph collection of Gerald John Kane, 1666-1953. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122499779 Gerald John Kane (1901-1957), was a collector of material related to Nevada, mining, and the American West, as well as being an autograph coll...

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...

Sutro Tunnel Company

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Sutro, Adolph Heinrich Joseph. From the description of Sutro Tunnel Company collection, 1867-1892 , bulk 1867-1873. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 86093725 ...