Finding aid to the Adolph Sutro papers and scrapbooks, MS 2115
California Historical Society
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Title: Adolph Sutro papers and scrapbooks
Date: 1853-1900
Collection Identifier: MS
2115
Creator:
Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898.
Contributing Institution:
California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA, 94105-4014
(415) 357-1848
reference@calhist.org
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Location of Materials: Collection is stored onsite.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English.
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[Identification of item], Adolph Sutro papers and scrapbooks, MS 2115, California
Historical Society.
Previously titled: Adolph Sutro papers, 1853-1900.
The legacy finding aid attached to this record may not accurately reflect the
contents of the collection. Additional materials may have been added to the
collection and container locations may have changed since the description was
written.
Sutro was a San Francisco businessman and mining engineer who made his fortune
constructing the Sutro Tunnel at the Comstock Lode in Nevada. He served as mayor of
San Francisco from 1894-1896.
Incoming correspondence (1853-1899), mostly relating to the Sutro Tunnel and the
Pacific Railroad Funding Bill; and 66 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings (1866-1898)
documenting the major interests of Sutro's business and political career. Major
correspondents include Theodore Sutro, J.M. Bassett, F.B. Perkins, and Charles A.
Sumner. Scrapbooks include 25 volumes concerning construction of the Sutro Tunnel;
14 volumes documenting Sutro's battle with the Southern Pacific Railroad over the
Pacific Railroad Funding Bill, which Sutro opposed; 17 volumes dealing with San
Francisco political events and issues during Sutro's term as mayor; and 7 volumes
covering miscellaneous political and business topics, and San Francisco social life.
The collection also includes deeds, contracts, and leases for landholdings and other
property; three check-receipt books (1890-1893); receipts and bills for services and
purchases made for Sutro Heights, Sutro Baths, and Sutro's other property; and other
miscellaneous documents and papers.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog:
Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898--Archives.
California--San Francisco.
Mayors--California--San Francisco.
Nevada--Sutro Tunnel.
Political science.
San Francisco (Calif.)--Politics and
government--19th century.
Sutro Tunnel (Nev.)
Scrapbooks.