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Sutro Library, California State Library
SFSU - J. Paul Leonard Library
1630 Holloway Ave, Room 610
San Francisco, California 94132-4030
Phone: (415) 469-6100
Fax: (415) 469-6172
Email: sutro@library.ca.gov
Physical collections: 26
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Addie Viola Smith papers

This collection consists primarily of Addie Viola Smith's correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, genealogy, speeches, newspaper clippings, photographs, and notebooks. Topics include trade and commerce in Shanghai, motors and highways in China, international and Chinese law, the United Nations, tourism development in...

 
Alice Howard collection of postcard correspondence in Esperanto

This collection consists of postcards from around the world primarily written in Esperanto, mostly addressed to Mrs. W. B. [Alice] Howard (1860-1940) of Omaha, Nebraska. Almost all are pictorial works, featuring photographs and illustrations. Most postcards portray landmarks and...

 
Antiquites of Mexico Proof sheets

This collection contains 517 original proof sheets for Lord Kingsborough (Edward King, 1795-1837)'s landmark publication, , was published between 1830-1848. made available facsimiles of Mesoamerican pictorial codices, many for the first time. Kingsborough employed the Italian artist Agostino Aglio to...

 
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Banks, Sir Joseph papers

This collection contains approximately 10,000 documents by and/or relating to Sir Joseph Banks. These items document the immense scope of Banks' activities in the world of science, exploration, and the growth of the British Empire's trade and commerce.

 
Banks(Joseph)Collection, 1770-1812

This collection contains approximately 10,000 documents by and relating to Sir Joseph Banks. These items document the immense scope of Banks' activities during a pivotal point in British history.

 
Beckett (C.Tucker), 1912-1969

This collection consists of photographs and diaries that belonged to Clarence Tucker Beckett, a Presidio soldier, and help to document the immense changes that occurred in the machinery of war at a nascent era of American military power.

 
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California Women's March posters and ephemera, 2018

The collection contains posters and small ephemeral items primarily from the San Jose, California Womens March held on January 20, 2018. One folder of ephemeral items from the Orange County Women's March held the same day is included....

 
California Women's Marches posters and ephemera, 2017

The bulk of this collection consists of 288 posters collected from various Women’s Marches in California, plus some ephemera and artifacts that accompanied or supplements the posters. The ephemera includes testimonials, photographs, and media coverage. The artifacts include pussy hats,...

 
Collection of caricatures of Sir Joseph Banks

This collection includes portraits created throughout Sir Joseph Banks' lifetime "...including proof copies, separately issued prints and the Gillray caricature of Banks as 'The Great South Sea Caterpillar.' Also included is a signed vellum lease document dated 1801 and a...

 
Collection of late 19th century sewing machine trade cards, advertisements, and catalogues.

This collection consists of approximately 196 pieces of advertising materials created and distributed by sewing machine companies in the late 19th century. Advertisement trade cards make up the majority of the collection, but catalogues, periodicals, and assorted novelty items are...

 
Collection of New York City newspaper reportage on the Lincoln assassination

An artificial archive of 56 issues from six different daily and weekly New York newspapers covering the six weeks after Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865.

 
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Dian Kiser collection of National Organization for Women, Salinas chapter files

This collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings and personal photographs from the Salinas Valley Chapter of the National Organization for Women. There is also a publication, program, and several miscellaneous outreach items....

 
Diary of a British Solider

Handwritten journals of an anonymous soldier in the British campaign in Flanders and Northern France after the French Revolution, from 1793-1795.

 
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Early Modern Indentures collection

A collection of 40 early modern indentures from the United States, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

 
Embodied Information Teaching Collection

An artificial collection created by the Sutro Library staff in 2017 that allows students to have a hands on experience with various formats and artifacts that embody the transmission of information throughout time. The samples in this collection are not...

 
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Hittell, Theodore, Papers of

This collection consists of primarily papers of lawyer and author Theodore H. Hittell pertaining primarily to his writings on California and his speeches. There are letters, research notes, legal papers, and manuscripts of his writings (including unpublished account of Walker's...

 
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Italian Notarial Documents

A collection of 168 Italian manuscript documents on parchment from Venice, Padua, etc., mainly from the 16th century.

 
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Maunsell-White Family Papers

This collections contains materials pertaining to Maunsell White Sr. and his family up until 1888. Contents include business letters and records, personal letters, photographs, miscellaous legal documents, and Civil War memorabilia. Highlights include a handwritten note and hair from Confederate...

 
Mexican Carte-de-Visite portrait collection: photographs of Mexican political and military leaders

A collection of 53 black and white, carte-de-visite cards (photographic prints) of prominent Mexican military and political figures from the mid 19th century measuring approximately 100 mm x 64 mm each.

 
Mexican Pamphlets, 1600s-1800s

This collection consists of information related to the history of Mexican culture, religion, and politics.

 
Mexicana Collection, 1540-1889

This collection consists of information related to the history of Mexican culture, religion, and politics from 1540 to 1889.

 
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Sutro Library collection of Stanley S. Slotkin book leaves

This collection includes book leaves and facsimiles of title pages from rare books collected by Stanley S. Slotkin. Most of the leaves are from religious texts and are written in a variety of languages including Old English, Hebrew, German, Latin,...

 
Sutro Library Hebraica, 1200s-1800s

This collection contains bible fragments and scrolls,as well as books and documents ranging in subject matter from Bible commenteries to hermenueutcs, lexicons, prayerbooks, philosophy, Cabalistic works, poetry, and medicine.

 
Sutro(Adolph)Papers, 1849-1984

Consists of correspondence, books, receipts, ephemera, printed matter, and photographs relating to the Anti-Railroad Funding Bill, Sutro's book buying activities, San Francisco mayoral campaign, Sutro Baths, Sutro Heights, and the Sutro Tunnel.

 
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Whitaker, Robert Papers

This collection contains sermon outlines, fiction and nonfiction essays, articles, flyers, and poetry....

 
Woodward's Gardens Collection

The collection consists of two series: correspondence and filecards pertaining to the Woodward's Gardens library. series 1 contains correspondence to Robert B. Woodward (although some are addressed to others at Woodward's Gardens) about possible donations or sale of items and...