Unused pictorial lettersheet with four illustrations. The first image, "Starting," shows three miners and a pack mule happily leaving a log cabin. "Not even the colour" shows the three miners at the gold diggings, finding nothing. "The end of the mule...
Description:
"5"--Upper right corner.
Publisher:
Britton & Rey
Subject (Geographic):
California
Subject (Topic):
Mines and mineral resources, Gold mines and mining, and Miners
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...
Description:
Adolph Sutro (1830-1898), mining engineer, mayor of San Francisco, 1894-98.
Subject (Geographic):
California and San Francisco.
Subject (Name):
Lynch, Edward., Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898., and Sutro Tunnel Company.
