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Guide to the Spreckels Financial Records, 1880-1944
BANC MSS C-G 190
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Collection Title: Spreckels Financial Records, 1880-1944
Collection Number: BANC MSS C-G 190
Collector:
Spreckels, John Diedrich, b. 1853
Extent:
Number of containers: 59 volumes
Linear feet: ca. 15
Repository: The
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
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.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
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.
[Identification of item], Spreckels financial records, BANC MSS C-G 190, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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.
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.