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 Photo Accession CV # 20-44-0006 Spreckels Sugar Factory Spreckels, California After the 1906 Earthquake George Butler Photo # 13 7x9 print In 1896, Spreckels began contracting with growers for beets for the Salinas Factory was the largest refinery in the world. It was side to be one of the largest brick building in California. The town of Spreckels housed many of the workers. It was largely a company town til the mid 1929's. It survived the April 18, 1906 earthquake , but the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter was the Sugar refining ceased in 1982, the factory continued as the packaging center for all Spreckels factories until 1994 |
Claus Spreckels  |
| Holdings: by Isaiah West Taber 75 images including portraits of David Jack and T. O. Larkin of Monterey and the Hotel Del Monte by I. W. Taber Go to 19th Century California photographers and over 21,500 of Monterey County listed in our database. |
5x8 Cabinet card photo Claus Spreckels the so called Sugar King (1828-1908) Photo by I. W. Taber |
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