Papers, 1863-1942.

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Papers, 1863-1942.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122645046

Receipts, correspondence, political handbills, legal instruments, maps, essays, newspaper clippings, and various other printed and handwritten items which relate to Adolph Sutro. The topics and institutions concerned with in the collection include the Sutro Library, the Struve Library, the California State Library, the Military Library of San Francisco, California and San Francisco politics, San Francisco city planning, the University of California, Stanford University, mining interests in Nevada, nineteenth century metaphysics and phrenology, the Historical Society of Southern California, the Afro-American League, the Lincoln Monument League for San Francisco, and probate papers of the Sutro estate. The items include Sutro's signature in several places.

105 items (3 linear inches).

Harold B. Lee Library

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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...