Edward Lynch scrapbooks, circa 1894.

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Edward Lynch scrapbooks, circa 1894.

Correspondence with California's Governor H.H. Markham, legal documents, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings, 1886-1894, concerning Adolph Sutro and the coastal lands around the Cliff House, Sutro Baths, and the Seal Rocks, San Francisco. Includes nine views (ca. 1870-1895?) of the beach and rocks near Cliff House and the Sutro Baths site, focusing in particular on Fisherman's Rock (also called Flagstaff Rock or Flagpole Rock) and its suspension footbridge. Some material relates to the legal case Nathan vs. Sutro et al., 1886.

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Markham, H. H. (Henry Harrison), 1840-1923.

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Lynch, Edward, Dr.

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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...

Perkins, Alfred Judson, 1838-1900.

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Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912

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Morris Badt was born in Schwersenz, Posen, Germany in 1830. He emigrated to New York in 1847 and moved to San Francsico in 1851, where he established a mercantile business. He later established businesses in Elko and Wells, Nevada. He married Lena Posener in 1868. Badt died in San Francisco in 1899. Mirel Lipshuetz Badt was the stepmother of Morris Badt. (From genealogical information provided by donors.) From the description of Morris Badt family portraits [graphic]. ca. 1880-ca. 18...

Runnels & Stateler.

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