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General News

• Shipwrecks
• California Real Estate
• Women at Sea
• Notice to Mariners
• Wharves and Docks 1847-1870

1833

• Baltimore Clippers

1847

• San Francisco Real Estate

1848

• Inauguration of the Pacific Mail Line

1849

• Publisher predicts English as most spoken language!
• Arrival of the First Steamship
• Arrival of the first gold miners from Sydney, Australia
• The Rush for California's Gold Fields
• 100,000 People in California by 1849
• San Francisco's First Crimp Joint
• The Gold Excitement Brings 200 Vessels to Port
• Money Buys Anything: Wholesale Prices in 1849
• Tall Tale from the Boston Herald
• Lament of the Irish Gold Hunter
• Lawyers in California
• Larcenous Lawyers and Their Books
• The Gold Excitement: Ships From Around the World, April 24, 1849
• Turmoil Causes Immigration
• San Francisco's First Entertainer: Stephen Massett
• The Diggin’ Has Commenced
• The Rush for California
• October 1849: California Immigrants
• At Sea with a Cruel Captain
• 100,000 Pioneers
• Murder at the Bella Union
• Life at sea on the brig Osceola
• Chagres, Panama, 1849
• Gold Discovered in Australia

1850

• A Passenger's Description of Mazatlan, January 1850
• The Age of Steam!
• The City's Crowded Harbor
• A Pioneer's Letter from the brig Colorado
• Navigation, August 2, 1850
• Ship Building in New York, August 1850
• The New Steamship San Francisco
• Bulls and Bears
• Meeting of Shipmasters
• September: A Disgruntled Letter Home
• October Emigration
• California is a State!: SS Oregon October 18, 1850
• The Sailor and His True Love
• Right Sort of Woman
• A Ship Canal Across the Isthmus

1851

• Gold Discovered in Australia, February 1851
• The SS Chesapeake and The Gold Bluffs
• A System for Immigrants
• Massacre of a Captain
• Dogs, Rats and Cats
• The Pacific Street Wharf Company
• Steamers on the Pacific
• Steamer Day
• Disasters on the China Sea
• Advertisements for Passage From the East to California
• Missionaries in Hawaii
• Kosher Meat in San Francisco
• Boxing becomes an "Aquatic Sport," August 8, 1851
• Bloomers: The New Female Costume — an eBook
• California Indian Affairs
• A Report of California's First Foot Race
• Highway Robbery

1852

• The Perils of Travel, January 1852
• The Chinese Emigration, May 1852
• Review of the Market, May 15, 1852
• Extension of Davis Street, May 22, 1852
• An amazing array of Cigars!, October 1852
• Insurance in San Francisco, October 1852
• Limantour Land Grant Claims
• Upriver Rates of Passage
• Exports from Valparaiso to San Francisco: November 28th-December 12, 1852
• Pearl Fisheries of the Pacific

1853

• The Deep Sea Derby of 1853: Clippers Racing Around the Horn from the East Coast
• New Books in San Francisco
• Sailor Thieves
• Lamplighters
• The High Cost of Passage
• Notes of a Rambler
• LOSS OF THE STEAMER INDEPENDENCE!
• The Greatest Pride of Nature . . .
• The Miner's Ten Commandments
• THE TENNESSEE'S LAST VOYAGE!
• News of the City of San Francisco.
• Pencilings in the Streets of San Francisco
• The Coffee Trade of the United States, March 1853
• A Day in Court
• Grumbling About the Waterfront
• Murder on the High Seas
• Letter From New York
• Imports and Exports
• Trade with South America
• Lawyers and Their Books
• The French in San Francisco, September 1853
• The Opium Trade, October 1853
• Mediums, Clairvoyants, Spiritualists
• Loss of the Steamer San Francisco, Christmas Day

1854

• 300 Lives Lost on the SS Independence
• The Loss of the Clipper San Francisco
• Society of California Pioneers
• Market Review

1855

• Gold Discovered at Valparaiso
• Deaths at Sea: Cholera!

1856

• Report on Imports from The California Historical Society Quarterly
• Murder in Card's Alley
• The State of California from the California Historical Society Quarterly
• The Battle of the "Bulkhead"
• Captain Edgar Wakeman's "Water Police."

1862

• The Anti-Coolie Tax of 1862

1863

• The California Nautical Magazine
• Board of Nautical Education
• Commercial and Financial
• Shipment of Treasure
• Shipbuilder Donald McKay on Ironclads
• The Chinese in California — an eBook
• A Sea Horse is a Sea Horse
• A Passenger's Life at Sea
• Confusing State of the Waterfront
• The City's Dogs: Bummer and Lazarus
• Emperor Norton Dines with Bummer and Lazarus
• Count Haraszthy develops vineyards in California and, in 1863, writes his Book on Wine Growing
  

1865

• Madame Laurustinus: Great Prophetess and Doctress

1868

• Shipment of Treasure

1870

• January 17: Irish Political Prisoners Arrive in San Francisco

1871

• The San Francisco-Australia Mail Line
• In the Poorhouse
• The Elite at the Seaside

1873

• Airbags on the High Seas

1875

• Letters of Isabella L. Bird, January 19, 1875: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands

1876

• A Cold Welcome
• Contention on Board

1882

• January 20: British Ship Milton Burned!

1895

• Cotton!

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Date Entered: Between 2002 and 2008
Source: Daily Alta California, Family Papers, Historical Records, Submissions from Researchers

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