Adolph B. Spreckels
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Adolph Bernard Spreckels was a California businessman who ran the Spreckels Sugar Company and who donated the California Palace of the Legion of Honor art museum to the city of San Francisco in 1924.
Adolph B. Spreckels
The Spreckels Mansion in San Francisco
Spreckels Mausoleum at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
John D. Spreckels
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John Diedrich Spreckels was an American businessman who founded a transportation and real estate empire in San Diego, California, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the son of German-Am
Adolph B. Spreckels
…him. Spreckels Organ Pavilion in San Diego's Balboa Park, housing the largest outdoor pipe organ in the world, was built by Spreckels and his brother, John. John commissioned Spreckels Organ in the Palace of the Legion of Honor in tribute to Adolph, who died before it was completed. Spreckels owned and…
Spreckels in 1901
"The Danger of Discord", a political cartoon by C. H. Confer published in The Wasp mocking Spreckels and fellow Republican newspaperman M. H. de Young for their infighting, insinuating it would lead to the election of Democrat James G. Maguire as Governor of California, September 24, 1898
SDERy double-decker Car No. 1 pauses at the intersection of 5th Street & Market Street in San Diego during its inaugural run on September 21, 1892.
Class 1 Streetcar #125 at 5th and Broadway in San Diego, CA (1915)