Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Selby Smelting & Lead Company Records,
- Dates:
- 1852-1976
- Creators:
- Selby Smelting & Lead Company
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Selby Smelting & Lead Company Records, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Correspondence, contracts, stock certificates, receipts, invoices, tax records, deeds, leases.
- Biographical / historical:
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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.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Smelting--California
- Names:
- Selby Smelting & Lead Company
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1999
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Unrestricted.
- Terms of access:
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Please credit California State Library.
Copyright has not been assigned to California State Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State 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], Selby Smelting & Lead Company Records, California State Library.
- Location of this collection:
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900 N Street, Room 200, P.O. Box 942837Sacramento, CA 94237-0001, US
- Contact:
- (916) 654-0176