Adolph Sutro correspondence, 1869 Oct. 30-1890 Jan. 17.

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Adolph Sutro correspondence, 1869 Oct. 30-1890 Jan. 17.

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Majority of correspondence concerns the building of Sutro Tunnel. Includes newspapers seeking information and offering support on Tunnel project, contact with a manufacturing firm regarding building of mining railroad cars, etc. Last letter concerns excavation work being done on beach below Cliff House, Sutro Heights.

6 items ; 27 cm. or smaller.

California state library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7773132

California state 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...

Barney & Smith Manufacturing Company

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Harrison, A. O.

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Cliff House (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Kelton, W. A.

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Leach, Frank Aleamon, 1846-

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California newspaper publisher and editor, member of California state assembly (1890-1892), author of two books on early California history. From the description of Frank A. Leach letter to the Rev. C. W. Wendte [manuscript], 1922 Aug 19. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 256490260 Frank Aleamon Leach was born in Auburn, New York on August 19, 1846. At an early age his family moved to Sacramento, California, and to Napa in 1857. Ten years later, Leach became edit...