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Title: Selby Smelting & Lead Co., 1852-1976
Creator: Selby Smelting & Lead Co
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.
Description: The Selby Smelting Company was organized in 1865 by Thomas H. Selby and Peter Naylor of New York. The lead produced here was used at the Selby Shot Tower in San Francisco. In 1879 the company purchased the property and business of the Pacific Refinery and Bullion Exchange. They continued refining gold, silver, and lead, and became the only private refinery on the west coast.
Correspondence, contracts, stock certificates, receipts, invoices, tax records, deeds, leases.
Selby.
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.
California State Library, California History Room
Type: text
Extent: 4 manuscript boxes ; 15 1/4 x 12 x 3 in.
Identifier: (C)000561251CSL01-Aleph
RLINCCSG91-A196
(DRA)ACU-2757
Language: English
Subject: Smelting--California
Place: California

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