General News 1833 1847 1848 1849
- 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
- The Diggin’ Has Commenced
- The Rush for California
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 300 Lives Lost on the SS Independence
- The Loss of the clipper San Francisco
- Society of California Pioneers
- 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."
- 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
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