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Spreckels pictorial collection 
Photo Accession CV # 20-44-0006 Spreckels Sugar Factory Spreckels, California After the 1906 Earthquake George Butler Photo # 13 7x9 print Spreckels Sugar Factory after the April 18,1906 Earthquake near Salinas. 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 at the time. The town of Spreckels housed many of the workers. It was largely a company town til mid 1929. The building survived the April 18, 1906 earthquake, but the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake a magnitude of 7.1 on the Richter was the end of this building, Sugar refining ceased in 1982, the factory continued as the packaging center for all Spreckels factories until 1994. In San Francisco the Spreckels Building stands at the corner of Third and Market Street's |
Claus Spreckels  5x8 Cabinet card photo Claus Spreckels the so called Sugar King (1828-1908) Photo by I. W. Taber |
| Holdings: by Isaiah West Taber 100 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 28,000 of Monterey County listed in our database. A gallery of some of our I.W. Taber photos |
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