Subject: San Francisco (Calif.)--Politics and government

Business card campaign advertisement for Adolph Sutro's 1894 San Francisco mayoral candidacy. The card includes a photograph of Sutro and the slogan "Defeat the Octopus." Published in San Francisco, California, on November 6, 1894.

A handwritten letter from S. Koya, Consul of Japan, to Adolph Sutro, Mayor of San Francisco, dated July 30, 1896. The letter is written on Consulate stationery and discusses the Sutro Tunnel and the Comstock Lode.