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The California Sugar Refinery, bet. Michigan and Sierra Sts. and the Bay of San Francisco, San Francisco, Cal. : Erected 1883 : Owned by the "California Sugar Refinery Company"
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California Sugar Refinery to James De Barth Shorb
Manuscripts
The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.
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Sugar Loaf Bay. Santa Catalina Isl. Cal
Visual Materials
This collection contains photographs by commercial photographers dated ca. 1890-1910 that show images of recreational scenes on Catalina Island, a hotel and public parks in Southern California, and various historical sites in Mexico City. Photographs of Catalina Island include views of Avalon, Sugarloaf Point, sailboats and glass-bottom boats, steamships, bathers at the beach, a tent city, and sailors of the steamship the "San Diego". California views include Missions San Gabriel, San Fernando, and San Juan Capistrano; the Coronado Hotel in San Diego; Central Park, St. James Park, and Hollenbeck Park (all based in Los Angeles); Adams Street in Los Angeles; the Shakespearean actress Helena Modjeska's home in Orange County; and an interior view of Columbia Savings Bank's then president Aaron M. Ozum's residence at 3131 Figueroa Street, Los Angeles. Photographs of Mexico depict the Cathedral de Mexico, Paseo de la Reforma, interiors and exteriors of Castillo de Chapultepec, Hotel Iturbide, Mercado Volador, Canal de la Viga, the daily lives of Mexican citizens, the Zócalo (now known as the Plaza de la Constitución), and various street scenes. Miscellaneous photographs are of cargo ships at shipping docks possibly in San Francisco, a steamship, and gardens. C.B. Waite photographed 19 of the 114 prints in this collection. Other photographers who contributed to this collection are Charles F. Ironmonger, Frank L. Park, Percy Cox and R.J. Carmichael, J.C. Hatton, Noren F. Swenson, and the Special View Company. Two photographers were identified on some photographs only by their surname: Graham and Scott.
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Architectural views of the San Francisco Bay area, California
Visual Materials
A collection of ten published photographs by Britton & Rey distributed as newspaper supplements in the San Francisco News Letter. Items consist of eight published photographs of architectural views in the San Francisco Bay area, California, as well as a photograph of the USS Charleston and a phototype architectural drawing of "The Marquam" hotel in San Francisco, designed by J.M. Wood. Most of the architectural views feature the exteriors of large houses in San Jose, as well as a house in Oakland, and the St. James Hotel and the Strathmore Building in San Francisco.
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Indians at San Gabriel, Cal., 1883
Visual Materials
Two Indian women outside a brush dwelling. One woman holds a pestle on a stone mortar. The women have signs in front of them with the names Laura, age 102 years, and Benjamina, age 117 years.
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San Francisco Bay
Manuscripts
A single skiff with two passengers sits in still water in San Francisco Bay.
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