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Vegetable tanned - or tanoak - leather was hung until ready for shipping. Vegetable leather dried naturally over a period of days. Salz Tannery switched to a chrome process about 1961. The chrome process made a softer tannage, more suitable for…

Date: 1954
Type: PHOTO

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Salz plant superintendent, Joe Bellas, holds the finished product. The Ansel Adams photograph was part of a series documenting each step of the leather making process in 1954.

Date: 1954
Type: PHOTO

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Date: 8/4/2001
Source: Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 4, 2001. Staff writer Stett Holbrook contributed to this article.
Type: ARTICLE

AR-0710001.PDF

Date: 2008
Source: "The California Powder Works & San Lorenzo Paper Mill: Self-Guided Tour." Santa Cruz, CA: Paradise Park Masonic Club, 2008.
Type: ARTICLE

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This aerial photograph of Salz Tannery was taken in the early 1950's possibly by Vester Dick Photography. River Street/Highway 9 is on the left and the San Lorenzo River is on the right.

Date: 1950's
Type: PHOTO

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Salz employees Chuck Anstead (left) and Joe Bellas work with a Sheridan Press. Sheridan Presses were large machines designed to create heat and pressure. When leather was sandwiched between these huge plates, the surface was flattened, brightened and…

Date: 1955
Type: PHOTO

chinabeach.pdf

Date: 2011-Summer
Source: Santa Cruz Magazine, v6n2, p.61-63.
Type: ARTICLE

Boom.pdf

Date: 2008-Winter/Spring
Source: Santa Cruz Magazine, v3n1, p59-60.
Type: ARTICLE

None.pdf

Date: 2008-Fall
Source: Santa Cruz Magazine, v3n3, p 72-74.
Type: ARTICLE

cowell.pdf

Date: 2010-Winter
Source: Santa Cruz Magazine, v5n4, p. 60-62.
Type: ARTICLE

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