Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Spreckels Financial Records, 1880-1944
- Creators:
- Spreckels, John Diedrich, b. 1853
- Abstract:
- Spreckels financial records primarily concern the financial activities and investments of Adolph and John Spreckels. The bulk of the collection spans the years from 1880 to 1925, documenting the financial transactions of several joint ventures statewide. Includes ledgers, journals, cash books and other materials relating to the Coronado Beach Co., Hotel Del Coronado, California Sugar Refinery, and other Spreckles ventures. Includes papers on the yacht Venetia, which served in the U.S. Navy in World War I. With these are 2 albums of newsclippings from 1934 to 1944.
- Extent:
- Number of containers: 59 volumes Linear feet: ca. 15
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Spreckels financial records, BANC MSS C-G 190, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Spreckels Financial Records primarily concern the financial activities and investments of Adolph B. Spreckels and John D. Spreckels, sons of Claus Spreckels, founder of the California Sugar Refinery. The bulk of the collection spans the years from 1880 to 1925, and consists of the ledgers and journals, documenting the financial transactions of several joint ventures statewide. Also included are 2 albums of newsclippings from 1934 to 1944.
- Acquisition information:
- The John D. Spreckels Financial Records were given to The Bancroft Library by Jack E. Speckman and Frank G. Belcher, President, Spreckels Realization Company, in 1955.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1996
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect; machine-readable finding aid encoded by Eva Garcelon. Finding aid originally encoded using the Finding Aid DTD (findaid.dtd) developed in the Bancroft Finding Aid Project; encoding converted to EAD using perl supplemented by manual editing and review. Date of source: 1994 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of he Manuscripts Division. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Spreckels financial records, BANC MSS C-G 190, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481