Sinsheimer Collection

The Sinsheimer Collection contains nineteenth- and early twentieth-century business, personal, and political papers of the Sinsheimers, a prominent and pioneering mercantile family of San Luis Obispo, California. Collection contains but is not limited to: business ledgers, financial records, diaries, photos, newspapers, and maps. Entirety of collection spans from 1868 through 1997. Collection is divided into nine series. More information available at: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt1k40301x/

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U.S. Post Office
Local Identifier
036-8-f-124-03-05
Date Created
1930 (year uncertain)
Description

A car is parked in front of the U.S. Post Office in Santa Fe, NM, now the site of the Institute of American Indian Arts.

Monterey St. San Luis Obispo
Local Identifier
036-8-e-123-05-04
Date Created
1925 (year uncertain)
Description

Looking east from the corner of Monterey and Chorro. The Sinsheimer building is visible on the left side of frame. Also notable is the A. Sauer Co. Grocers and Bakers, Bellini's [?] Variety Store, Austin's Candy Store, Wilson Hotel, Hotel Andrews, Coffee Tavern, Billiards, Western Union, Anderson Hotel, Mission Hotel, and the Florsheim Shoe.

[Street scene in Colorado]
Local Identifier
036-8-f-124-03-01
Date Created
1930 (year uncertain)
Description

View down a main boulevard of what is probably Canon City, CO

[Street scene in Colorado]
Local Identifier
036-8-f-124-03-02
Date Created
1930 (year uncertain)
Description

View down a main boulevard of what is probably Canon City, CO

[Man standing in front of buttes]
Local Identifier
036-8-f-124-03-03
Date Created
1930 (year uncertain)
Description

A man poses for a photograph in front of rock formations in the American West

[Car parked in front of stone house]
Local Identifier
036-8-f-124-03-04
Date Created
1930 (year uncertain)
Description

A car is parked in front of the ruins of a stone house in the American West

Sinsheimer Bros float
Local Identifier
036-8-e-123-01-09
Date Created
1961 (year uncertain)
Description

Two children sit on the Sinsheimer Brothers float passing through the intersection of Johnson Street and Higuera Street. The float is covered in flowers and has a sign for 'ELKS '322''.

[Beach scene in Long Beach]
Local Identifier
036-8-f-124-02-03
Date Created
1910
Description

A crowd of people stand or sit on the beach with the boardwalk in the background

[View of Long Beach]
Local Identifier
036-8-f-124-02-04
Date Created
1910
Description

Several people walk up and down the boardwalk

L. F. Sinsheimer: candidate for mayor, 1925
Local Identifier
036-1-b-02-01-01
Date Created
1925
Description

This box features many calling cards similar to the one pictured, with various messages written on the backs of the cards.

2 items in Collection
Business correspondence
Local Identifier
036-2-c-26-01-04
Date Created
1887-07-03
Description

Business correspondence, July 3, 1887.

2 items in Collection
The Hoard's Dairyman how book for juniors [excerpt], 1939
Local Identifier
036-2-k-46-19-01
Date Created
1939
Description

Cover and page 3, of a book of instructions and guidelines regarding vocational agriculture and livestock raising. Page 3 provides instructions and diagrams for 'how to tie useful knots.' This was the sixth printing of the book in 1939.

2 items in Collection

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