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Title: 1875 Portrait of Adolph Sutro
Contributor: Arbuckle, Clyde, 1903-1998 (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1875
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Contributing Institution: San José Public Library, California Room
Collection: Historic Photograph Collection
Rights Information: Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact the California Room: http://www.sjlibrary.org/research/special/ca/contacts_index.htm
Description: Adolph Sutro, in profile, with example of his autograph. An engineer, his work in mines on the Comstock Lode made him a millionaire. Sutro was a mayor of San Francisco. Sutro accumulated an impressive private collection of books; in 1917, the California State Library used this collection to form the Sutro Library.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg2000
Scanned with Epson Perfection V350 Photo Scanner as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 16-bit Grayscale. Compressed into JPEG format and Auto Level image adjustment applied using Photoshop CS2.
Extent: 8 x 10 in.
Identifier: http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/arbuckle/id/426
Language: English
Subject: Men
Portraits
Sutro, Adolph, 1830-1898
Place: San Francisco
California
Source: Clyde Arbuckle Photograph Collection

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