Manuscripts

Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro

Description: ILLUSTRATED LECTURE DELIVERED BY SUTRO 1874
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: (1830 - 1898)
Call number: mssNevadar
Provenance: Purchased from H. A. Levinson, February 27, 1963.; Purchased from Yale Brown, May 16, 1963.
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Philip Deidesheimer letter to Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro

Manuscripts

Letter from Philip Deidesheimer in Virginia City, Nevada, to Adolph Sutro. Deidesheimer writes of his desire to see Sutro and asks him to come back to Virginia City as soon as he can. He also writes of the mines in Nevada, including that "there is mutiny near" at the Ophir Mine. He also writes that he hopes to be made one of the Sutro Tunnel Commissioners, of his invention of the timbering system, that he "never dreamed" of patenting the system "until of late," and asks Sutro to inquire into patenting the design for him, noting that "if I could yet get a patent it would bring me an income of at least one million...dollars a year."

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Adolph Sutro lantern slides collection

Visual Materials

About 126 glass lantern slides used by Adolph Sutro to illustrate a lecture on the history of mining in the Comstock, and of the Sutro Tunnel. Size 3¼ x 3¼ inches, in wood frames measuring about 7 x 4½ inches. 38 are hand colored photographs of drawings, mostly of scenes in the mines, 13 are black and white diagrams, 43 are photographs of executed sealed agreements between The Sutro Tunnel Company and the mines, and 31 are hand colored original photographs of the town of Sutro and the Sutro Tunnel.

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Adolph Sutro papers

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A collection of 2786 items from 1853 to 1931, it consists of personal and business correspondence, documents, and maps. Subjects in the collection related to San Francisco include businesses; the Sutro Baths; the Cliff House; land development including Sutro Heights; street railways; politics; and the Sutro Library. There is also material related to mining in Nevada, including the Sutro Mill; the Sutro Tunnel; and the Comstock Lode. Persons represented in the collection include: Edward D. Adams, Pelham W. Ames, Alexander Badlam, Charles A. Clinton, Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper, George W. Frink, Carl B. Glasscock, Theodore Krauss, Frank B. Mercer, Emma Merritt, George Moss, James D. Phelan, R.S. Raw, Charles Walter Sutro, Emil S. Sutro, Hugo Sutro, Leah Harris Sutro, and Theodore Sutro. Business corporations represented in the collection include the Sutro Baths; Sutro Library; Sutro Mill; Sutro Tunnel Company; U.S. Department of the Interior; and University of California Regents.

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Adolph Sutro papers

Manuscripts

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(44) STEREOPTICAN SLIDES used by Sutro to illustrate his lecture. Original photographic glass slides, English standard size 3¼ × 3¼ inches, in wood frames measuring about 7 × 4½ inches, about 126 of which 38 are hand colored photographs of drawings, mostly of scenes in the mines, 13 are black and white diagrams, 43 are photographs of executed sealed agreements between The Sutro Tunnel Company and the mines and 31 are hand colored original photographs of the Town of Sutro and the Sutro Tunnel

Manuscripts

These are the same slides described in George D. Lyman, Ralston's Ring, New York, 1937, p. 255. They are also mentioned in Robert E. Stewart, Jr. and Mary Frances Stewart, Adolph Sutro A Biography, Berkeley, 1962. Some of these slides are illustrated in the article listed as the next item.

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Charles A. Sumner letter to Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro

Manuscripts

Sumner writes of the 1862 efforts of Jacob Beideman of "defending his large real estate property rights in this city by a newspaper," and describes the results. Sumer writes of the political efforts of his group: "We saved every homestead in the city" from what he calls "an organized party of scoundrels; chief among them were the newspaper manipulators." With a brief printed biography of Sumner.

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Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro

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