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Adolph Sutro lantern slides collection

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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1874.
Call number: photCL 508
Creator: Sutro, Adolph (1830-1898)(Opens in new tab)
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Adolph Sutro papers

Manuscripts

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.

mssSUT

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Adolph Sutro papers

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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."

mssHM 29230

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Resolution adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Sutro Tunnel Company

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An autograph copy of a resolution by the board of trustees stating that the company is authorized to issue 108,000 shares of capital stock for the purpose of funding the Sutro Tunnel in Nevada. The resolution also states that Adolph Sutro or his agents have 90 days from November 5, 1878 to purchase the whole or any part of the 108,000 shares at &5.00 per share. This copy of the resolution was certified and signed in San Francisco by Pelham W. Ames, Secretary of the Sutro Tunnel company. The document bears the blind embossed seal of the Sutro Tunnel Company

mssHM 52582

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Lantern slides

Manuscripts

There are lantern slides (3.25 x 4 inches) for twelve of the prints.

mssDolley; photCL 123

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Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Lantern Slides and Transparencies

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The Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Lantern Slides and Transparencies consists of 96 hand-colored lantern slides and autochrome lantern slides and 52 2 x 2 in. color transparencies (copies of earlier hand-colored photographs), ca. 1900-1930, depicting, for the most part, unidentified houses, landscapes, plants and gardens in and around Pasadena; the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena; aerial views, presumably of Pasadena; mountain lakes and landscapes; desert landscapes and flora; the Grand Canyon, Pueblo ruins, and the Petrified Forest; unidentified landscapes; and the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Many of the unidentified landscape images may depict Lake Tahoe and its environs. The collection does not contain any of Parker's Tournament of Roses photographs. It is not known whether Harold Parker traveled to San Francisco after the earthquake, and thus the attribution of the transparencies is questionable.

photLS 402

Adolph Sutro lantern slides collection

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