Guide to the Selby Smelting & Lead Company Records, 1852-1976
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Guide to the Selby Smelting & Lead Company Records, 1852-1976
California State Library
Sacramento, California
- California History Room
- California State Library
- Library and Courts Building II
- 900 N. Street, Room 200
- P.O. Box 942837
- Sacramento, California 94237-0001
- Phone: (916) 654-0176
- Fax: (916) 654-8777
- Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
- URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
- Processed by:
- The California State Library staff
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 California State Library. All rights reserved.
Title: Selby Smelting & Lead Company Records,
Date (inclusive): 1852-1976
Box Number: 1563, 1566
Creator:
Selby Smelting & Lead Company
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
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Smelting--California
Selby Smelting & Lead Company
Correspondence, contracts, stock certificates, receipts, invoices, tax records, deeds, leases.
The Selby Smelting Company was orgainzed 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 refined gold, silver, and lead, and became the only private refinery on the west coast.
- Bank of California Bessemer Steel Works
- Black Diamond Steel Works
- Bradley, F. W.
- Carson, Jonathan
- Clemens, Gilbert
- Gilbert, Frank L.
- J. J. Moore and Co., Inc.
- New York Life Insurance Co.
- Rasmussen, Louis J.
- Rideout, E. V.
- Seaman, Jesse
- Sexton, Roberta
- Taylor, Chas.
- Weinberger, Herman
- William Butcher Steel Works
- Wingfield, George
Material Transferred from the Collection
- Photographs to photo file.
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Title: California. San Francisco. 1916.Selby Smelting & Lead Co. San Francisco. Dec. 29, 1916.Identifier/Call Number: (MAP c912 S19d 1916)
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Title: California. Contra Costa County.n.d. [Selby Smelting & Lead Co.]Identifier/Call Number: (MAP c912 C76s n.d.)
Title: Milton Mining and Water Company records, 1873-1881.
Box Box 1563
Correspondence; history of company; brochures, advertising; clippings; newsletter; administrative records; purchase & receiving records
Box Box 1566
Correspondence; administrative records; general accounts; legal materials; patents