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10. Correspondence
- Published / Created:
- 1866
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1332
- Collection Title:
- Adolph Sutro papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 2
- Image Count:
- 19
- 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 and Unpublished list kept with collection.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
- 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 and Unpublished list kept with collection.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
12. Maps of real estate holdings in San Francisco
- Published / Created:
- 1849-1850
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1944
- Collection Title:
- Elbert P. Jones real estate papers
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 6
- Image Count:
- 5
- Abstract:
- Sixty-three documents relating to real estate transactions of Elbert P. Jones in San Francisco, California, between 1847 and 1851. The papers include thirty printed bonds and receipts issued by the Town of San Francisco and completed in manuscript and signed by Jones, George Hyde, 1st Alcalde of San Francisco, William A. Leidesdorff, and Jasper O'Farrell; seven property sale agreements between Jones and Jonathan D. Stevenson and William C. Parker, and a duplicate copy of a lease between Jones and Jeremiah Canty; fifteen receipts for land surveys conducted for Jones by William M. Eddy; seven summonses, judgments, tax receipts, etc.; and three maps of Jones's real estate holdings in San Francisco, mounted on paper and bound together. Several of the documents refer to Yerba Buena, as San Francisco was called prior to March 1847.
- Description:
- Gift of Frederick W. Beinecke.
- Subject (Geographic):
- San Francisco (Calif.) and San Francisco (Calif.)--Surveys
- Subject (Name):
- Canty, Jeremiah, Eddy, William M, Hyde, George, 1819-1890, Jones, Elbert P, Leidesdorff, William Alexander, 1809 or 10-1848, O'Farrell, Jasper, Parker, William C. fl. 1848-1851, and Stevenson, J. D. (Jonathan Drake), 1800-1894
- Subject (Topic):
- Real property--California--San Francisco
- Collection Created:
- San Francisco, California
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Maps of real estate holdings in San Francisco
13. Property sale agreements and lease
- Published / Created:
- 1848-1851
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1944
- Collection Title:
- Elbert P. Jones real estate papers
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 3
- Image Count:
- 21
- Abstract:
- Sixty-three documents relating to real estate transactions of Elbert P. Jones in San Francisco, California, between 1847 and 1851. The papers include thirty printed bonds and receipts issued by the Town of San Francisco and completed in manuscript and signed by Jones, George Hyde, 1st Alcalde of San Francisco, William A. Leidesdorff, and Jasper O'Farrell; seven property sale agreements between Jones and Jonathan D. Stevenson and William C. Parker, and a duplicate copy of a lease between Jones and Jeremiah Canty; fifteen receipts for land surveys conducted for Jones by William M. Eddy; seven summonses, judgments, tax receipts, etc.; and three maps of Jones's real estate holdings in San Francisco, mounted on paper and bound together. Several of the documents refer to Yerba Buena, as San Francisco was called prior to March 1847.
- Description:
- Gift of Frederick W. Beinecke.
- Subject (Geographic):
- San Francisco (Calif.) and San Francisco (Calif.)--Surveys
- Subject (Name):
- Canty, Jeremiah, Eddy, William M, Hyde, George, 1819-1890, Jones, Elbert P, Leidesdorff, William Alexander, 1809 or 10-1848, O'Farrell, Jasper, Parker, William C. fl. 1848-1851, and Stevenson, J. D. (Jonathan Drake), 1800-1894
- Subject (Topic):
- Real property--California--San Francisco
- Collection Created:
- San Francisco, California
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Property sale agreements and lease
14. Summonses, judgments, tax receipt, etc
- Published / Created:
- 1849-1851
- Call Number:
- WA MSS S-1944
- Collection Title:
- Elbert P. Jones real estate papers
- Container / Volume:
- Folder 5
- Image Count:
- 15
- Abstract:
- Sixty-three documents relating to real estate transactions of Elbert P. Jones in San Francisco, California, between 1847 and 1851. The papers include thirty printed bonds and receipts issued by the Town of San Francisco and completed in manuscript and signed by Jones, George Hyde, 1st Alcalde of San Francisco, William A. Leidesdorff, and Jasper O'Farrell; seven property sale agreements between Jones and Jonathan D. Stevenson and William C. Parker, and a duplicate copy of a lease between Jones and Jeremiah Canty; fifteen receipts for land surveys conducted for Jones by William M. Eddy; seven summonses, judgments, tax receipts, etc.; and three maps of Jones's real estate holdings in San Francisco, mounted on paper and bound together. Several of the documents refer to Yerba Buena, as San Francisco was called prior to March 1847.
- Description:
- Gift of Frederick W. Beinecke.
- Subject (Geographic):
- San Francisco (Calif.) and San Francisco (Calif.)--Surveys
- Subject (Name):
- Canty, Jeremiah, Eddy, William M, Hyde, George, 1819-1890, Jones, Elbert P, Leidesdorff, William Alexander, 1809 or 10-1848, O'Farrell, Jasper, Parker, William C. fl. 1848-1851, and Stevenson, J. D. (Jonathan Drake), 1800-1894
- Subject (Topic):
- Real property--California--San Francisco
- Collection Created:
- San Francisco, California
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Summonses, judgments, tax receipt, etc
