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Anson Stiles Blake Business Records,
1897-1938
MS 203
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Title: Anson Stiles Blake business records
creator:
Blake, Anson Stiles, 1870-1959
Dates: 1897-1938
Collection Number: MS 203
Extent:
5 boxes
(2.5 Linear feet)
Repository:
California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA, 94105
415-357-1848
reference@calhist.org
URL: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/
Physical Location: Collection is stored onsite.
Language of Materials: Collection materials are in English.
Abstract: Consists of account ledgers, cash books, copybooks, invoices, and other financial and business records of Calif. quarry companies,
including San Pablo Quarry Co., Blake and Bilger Company, Blake Brothers Company, and San Francisco Quarries Company. Includes
some records of companies concerned with building materials, water, and land, including a cash book for H. Peterson & Company,
minutes for the Board of Directors of Venice Island Company, a title abstract for La Jota Rancho (Napa County), stock certificates
for Interior Land company (Kern County), and by-laws of San Pablo Water Company.
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Photographs shelved as MSP 203.
[Identification of item], Anson S. Blake Business Records. MS 203, California Historical Society, North Baker Research Library.
Gift of Mr. Igor R. Blake, Nephew of Anson S. Blake, March 1972. Acc. no. 23.
Blake was a businessman and partner in California quarrying companies and the son of gold rush pioneer Charles T. Blake. In
1899, he became president of his father's company, Oakland Paving Company. Blake and Bilger was a quarrying company which
grew out of the Oakland Paving Company; it later became Blake Brothers Company as a result of a buyout and merger by the Blake
family in 1914. San Pablo Quarry Company was the first holding company for Blake Brothers Company.
Consists of account ledgers, cash books, copybooks, invoices, and other financial and business records of Calif. quarry companies,
including San Pablo Quarry Co., Blake and Bilger Company, Blake Brothers Company, and San Francisco Quarries Company. Includes
some records of companies concerned with building materials, water, and land, including a cash book for H. Peterson & Company,
minutes for the Board of Directors of Venice Island Company, a title abstract for La Jota Rancho (Napa County), stock certificates
for Interior Land company (Kern County), and by-laws of San Pablo Water Company.
Bilger, F. W.
Blake and Bilger Company.
Blake Brothers Company.
Blake, Edwin T.
H. Peterson & Co., Inc.
Interior Land Co.
San Francisco Quarries Company.
San Pablo Quarry Company.
San Pablo Water Co.
Symmes, Whitman
Venice Island Co.
Yount, George C., (George Calvert), 1794-1865
Account books.
Business -- 1897-1938
Businessmen--California.
Quarries and quarrying--California.
Rancho La Jota (Napa, Calif.)
Water utilities--California.