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10. Correspondence
- Published / Created:
- 1868
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1332
- Collection Title:
- Adolph Sutro papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 4
- Image Count:
- 116
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
- Description:
- Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California--Politics and government--1850-1950
- Subject (Name):
- Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
- Subject (Topic):
- Real property--California--San Francisco
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Correspondence
11. Correspondence
- Published / Created:
- 1867
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1332
- Collection Title:
- Adolph Sutro papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 3
- Image Count:
- 43
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
- Description:
- Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California--Politics and government--1850-1950
- Subject (Name):
- Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
- Subject (Topic):
- Real property--California--San Francisco
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Correspondence
12. Correspondence
- Creator:
- Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
- Published / Created:
- 1865 Dec 12
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1332
- Collection Title:
- Adolph Sutro papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 1
- Image Count:
- 4
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- The papers consist primarily of correspondence. Letters to Adolph Sutro in the 1860s and 1870s document his attempts to build the Sutro Tunnel with assistance from federal legislation and foreign capital. Letters from the 1880s are personal, covering such topics as trees for Sutro's estate and requests for charity. A few of the letters in the 1890s concern his political career. and There are also letters dating from 1886 to 1895 from, Edward Lynch, Sutro's agent in Washington, D.C., who monitored the passage of bills affecting real estate in the San Francisco area. The collection contains an 1866 power of attorney authorizing Sutro to act for the Sutro Tunnel Company.
- Description:
- Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98. and Unpublished list kept with collection.
- Subject (Geographic):
- California--Politics and government--1850-1950
- Subject (Name):
- Lynch, Edward, Sutro Tunnel Company, and Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
- Subject (Topic):
- Real property--California--San Francisco
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Correspondence
13. Le Grand sceau de la confederation suisse et le costume des huissiers des XXII cantons
- Published / Created:
- 1843 or 1844
- Call Number:
- Osborn d388
- Collection Title:
- Manuscript journal from September 1843 to April 1844, 1843-1844
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Image depicts the twenty-two states of the Swiss Confederation of 1843 or 1844, the different types of dress found among the people of these regions, and the traveling distances between those regions.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Switzerland --Description and travel --1800-1850, Switzerland --Ethnic relations, Switzerland --History --1830-1848, Switzerland --History --19th century, and Switzerland --Politics and government --19th century
- Subject (Topic):
- Tourism, Travelers, and Travelers writings
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Le Grand sceau de la confederation suisse et le costume des huissiers des XXII cantons
14. Memoir notes by Malherbe
- Creator:
- Malherbe, Suzanne, 1892-1972
- Published / Created:
- undated
- Call Number:
- GEN MSS 721
- Collection Title:
- Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | 13-15
- Image Count:
- 204
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Papers relating to World War II (in boxes 1-2) include copies of resistance propaganda, undated; letters and notes concerning the imprisonment of Cahun and Malherbe, 1943-1945 and undated; holograph memoir notes by Malherbe, undated; and a typescript memoir by Cahun and Malherbe, undated. and The Claude Cahun and Suzanne Malherbe Papers consist of holograph and typescript writings by Cahun; memoirs, correspondence, and notes relating to their experiences during World War II; and a small amount of other correspondence and copies of photographs by Cahun.
- Description:
- Claude Cahun, born Lucy Schwob, was a French photographer, artist, and author. Cahun was associated with the Surrealist movement, and her photography and writings addressed issues of gender identity. In 1937 she moved to Jersey in the Channel Islands with her partner Suzanne Malherbe, an illustrator who adopted the name Marcel Moore. Cahun and Malherbe were active in the resistance during the German occupation of Jersey during World War II. They were imprisoned and sentenced to death in 1944, but were liberated at the end of the war. and Formerly owned by Basil Bigg. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd., on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2009.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Jersey (Channel Islands)
- Subject (Name):
- Bigg, Basil--Ownership and Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954
- Subject (Topic):
- Authors, French--20th century, Gender identity in art, Lesbian artists--France, LGBTQ resource, Photographers--France, Surrealism--France, Women photographers, and World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Jersey
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Memoir notes by Malherbe
15. White, Alfred
- Call Number:
- YCAL MSS 1074
- Collection Title:
- Léon Bélugou correspondence
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 19
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Collection of correspondence with Edith Wharton and others, including Hamilton Aidé, Anna Bahlmann, Bernard Berenson, Walter Berry, William Morton Fullerton, Percy Lubbock, and abbé Arthur Mugnier. The collection features approximately 172 pieces of correspondence from Edith Wharton, consisting of autograph letters, notes, and postcards, signed, dating from 1909 to 1931, as well as sixteen pieces of correspondence from Bélugou to Wharton. Selected letters between Wharton and Bélugou were assembled by Claudine Lesage and published as Lettres à l'ami français (Paris: M. Houdiard, [2001]). Accompanied by several black-and-white photographs of Bélugou and others.
- Description:
- Chiefly in French; some materials in English, Spanish and German., Léon Bélugou (1865-1934), French educator., and Purchased from Priscilla Juvelis Inc. on the Alfred Z. Baker, Jr. Fund, 2002.
- Subject (Name):
- Aïdé, Hamilton, 1826-1906, Bahlmann, Anna Catherine, Bélugou, Léon, 1865-1934, Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959, Berry, Walter, 1859-1927 , Fullerton, William Morton, 1865-1952, and Lesage, Cla
- Subject (Topic):
- American literature--20th century, Authors, American--20th century--Archives, and Poets, American--20th century--Archives
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > White, Alfred