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Title
Adolph Sutro
Creator
Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912
Date Created and/or Issued
1886
Publication Information
San Francisco : Taber Photo
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
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Description
Plates in: Sutro Heights, San Francisco, California / [photography by Taber Photo], vol. 2, frontispiece.
Bust-length portrait.
2013-1294SUT.
Born in Germany in 1830 of Jewish Prussian parents, came to California in 1850. Was mining engineer, building Sutro Tunnel in the Comstock Lode. Active in San Francisco in real estate, served as mayor. Died in 1898.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print ; 4 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Identifier
(C)001497805CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Sutro, Adolph,, 1830-1898--Photographs
German Americans--California--San Francisco
Engineers
Sutro Heights (San Francisco, Calif.)--Photographs
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Portrait photographs
Place
California
San Francisco
Sutro Heights (San Francisco, Calif.)
San Francisco (Calif.)

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