The Maritime Heritage Project with News of Captains, Ships and Passengers in 1800s San Francisco

Reproductions Published Prior to 1923 (No images available, but they sound interesting): A History of the City of San Francisco and Incidentally of the State of California California from the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco Catalogue of the Library of the California State Mining Bureau, San Francisco, Cal. September 1, 1892 A Memoir on the Water Supply of the City of San Francisco City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco Annals of the Spanish Northwest (Volume 3); California British Merchant Seamen in San Francisco, 1892-1898 An Historical Review of the San Francisco Exchange Bohemian San Francisco: Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes; The Elegant Art of Dining A Region's Press; Anatomy of Newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area, published by the Institute of Governmental Studies, University of California A Treatise on the Law of Deeds (Volume 1); Their Form, Requisites, Execution, Acknowledgment, Registration, Construction and Effect. Together With Chapters on Tax Deeds and Sheriffs Deeds Volume: 1 Publisher: San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney co. Publication date: 1897 Subjects: Deeds Real property -- United States Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
Reprints from San Francisco's Own Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings (Oakley Hall) Bret Harte Mark Twain: Autobiography of Mark Twain Cannibalism in the Cars, Mark Twain Collected Stories of Mark Twain Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays, 1852-1890 Complete Letters of Mark Twain, Volumes IV to VI Grant and Twain: The Story of a Friendship That Changed America Ignorance, Confidence, and Filthy Rich Friends: The Business Adventures of Mark Twain, Peter Krass Great Short Works of Mark Twain Haunted San Francisco: Ghost Stories from the City's Past, Compiled by Rand Richards Port O' Gold: A History Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts, Louis J. Stellman. After briefly trying pharmacy, then telegraphy, Stellman settled down at the turn of the century as a Los Angeles newspaperman. In 1902 he moved to San Francisco and worked as a reporter, then an editor, for the News. He later became an editorial and feature writer for the Bulletin. He wrote books and articles on the side and became a serious photographer. Port O' Gold is the story of San Francisco, a history with a fiction thread to string its episodes upon. Most of the characters are men and women who have lived and played their parts exactly as described herein.
A Selection of Books about San Francisco History Theatres in San Francisco Historic San Francisco, Rand Richards San Francisco: A Cultural and Literary by Mick Sinclair Reprints include: Recollections fo the San Francisco Waterfront, History of the San Francsico Committee of Vigilance, Unbound Voices: A Documentary History of Chinese Women in San Francisco, Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco, Port O'Gold: A History Romance of The San Francisco Argonauts . . .
	Annals of San Francisco Authors M.D. Gihon, Frank Soule, James Nisbet If you purchase only one book about San Francisco's early days, consider this: it was compiled at the time from newspapers, documents, quotes, etc. It is about as direct as you can get of stories of San Francisco's history told though the eyes of the people that were there. That is not to say it isn't "tainted," but it is closer to the source than almost anything else you can find.
	The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld Herbert Asbury The author begins his narrative with the Gold Rush and writes about the influx of "gold-seekers, gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians and other felonious parasites . . . "
	Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco Hilton Obenzinger A collection of stories from diaries, memoirs, interviews and other firsthand accounts of San Francisco history from 1776 to the earthquake and fire of 1906. Includes "The Demented Grin of Father Fernandez"; "Belle Cora and the Vigilantes"; a tale about "Charles Crocker, His Fence, and the Troubles of 1877". Mercury House, San Francisco, 1993
	Gold, Silk, Pioneers & Mail: The Story of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company Robert J. Chandler, Ph.D. and Stephen J. Potash; Forward by James P. Delgado, Ph.D. The California Gold Rush of 1849 assured the fortunes of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. Based in San Francisco, its wooden steamers carried gold, passengers, mail and high-value freight, forever changing the city, the Pacific Coast and the nation. Chandler is a graduate of the University of California. Stephen J. Potash is a graduate of Pomona College and a public relations consultant to the international trade and freight transportation sectors. (This beautifully illustrated book is a numbered limited edition.)
	Imperial San Francisco: Urban Pwer, Earthly Ruin Gray Brechin "Every age has some ostentatious system to excuse the havoc it commits." Horace Walpole, 1762 Gold and silver drove San Francisco's real estate values. While some financiers may have worked as miners, they readily gave that up for the money to be made in the city they were building.
	San Francisco Almanac: Everything You Want to Know About Everyone's Favorite City Gladys Hansen Gladys Hansen was the city archivist at the San Francisco Public Library for 47 years. Everything from Accolades, Arts and Entertainment, Bridges and Tunnels, Chinese, Churches, Cemetaries, Culture, Earthquakes, Flags, Lakes, Legends, Maritime, to Streets, Transportation, Vital Statistics, Water and Weather 1995
	Old Tales of San Francisco< Arthur Chandler The book gather together fine writing from and about the city from the last decades of the 18th through the first years of the 20th century. San Francisco's literary heritage is rich and much is out of print. This book contains a sampling of the abundant treasures tucked away in libraries and historical societies. The author divided it into 1775-1848; 1849-1869; 1870-1906. Each author's work is briefly prefaced to set the scene.
	San Francisco, Port of Gold William Martin Camp Camp was a waterfront reporter in San Francisco in 1938, when he worked for the San Francisco Examiner briefly, and again in the 40s when he returned to the city. Finely researched, with stories of waterfront places and characters not often told, and written in a journalistic style (which, to me, means very easy to read).Museum. 1947, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York 1947
	Shanghaied in San Francisco Bill Pickelhaupt Stories of waterfront characters, crimps, Whitehall boats, and the origins of the word "shanghaied." Recently reprinted.
No Image Available	This Is San Francisco: A Classic Portrait of the City Robert O'Brien O'Brien, a former San Francisco Chronicle reporter, wrote these stories of characters not often written about during the 40s. Reprinted by Chronicle Books, 1994
No Image Available	Mark Twain's San Francisco Edited by Bernard Taper A selection of Mark Twain's stories between 1863 and 1866. Among Twain's counterparts during these literary years were Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry George, the flamboyant Joaquin Miller, and Ina Coolbrith. They loosened the stricture of "proper" English by writing freely of the lusty life surrounding them in the raw West. Twain wrote his witty pieces for the "Call, Golden Era, Californian, Sacramento Union" and the "Daily Dramatic Chronicle," which was the original name of the "San Francisco Chronicle" when it was founded in 1865. 1963. 264 pages, illustrated.
	Walking San Francisco on the Barbary Coast Trail Daniel Bacon A colorful view and walking guide of the City for historians and tourists. Well-researched and written by a native San Franciscan. Bacon located the sites of many of the ships that were sunk after being abandoned along the waterfront when crew left for the gold fields. Quicksilver Press, 1997
	Historic Photos of San Francisco
	1887 Prospectus for San Francisco's Wire Cable Railways and Cable Cars In 1873, the first cable railway in the United States began operation in San Francisco. In subsequent years, the Clay Street Railroad was joined by many other operators throughout the U.S.A., including systems in New York and Los Angeles. The rise of the electric trolley made most cable car systems obsolete. Today, the only street cable car system in operation is the historic San Francisco Municipal Railway. Originally published in 1887, this prospectus was prepared by patent holders in hopes of attracting additional operators and investors. The document describes the cable car system and its operation in text, diagrams and photographs, and presents a detailed list of patents. This easy-to-read reprint is presented in format, sightly larger than the original. However, care has been taken to preserve the integrity of the text.

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