The Maritime Heritage Project ~~ International Harbors Travel

This site started with my daughter's family tree homework project in 1998. The Project has taken us around the world in search of family. Our generational tree is now 5'x4' and goes back to the 1700s in Maine, and prior to that to Ireland, Wales and Germany. A family tree is a marvelous way to keep your family connected; just click on the image below to start yours.

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San Francisco, 1846-1856
From Hamlet to City
Roger W. Lotchin
Back in print with a new introduction by the author, this is the classic study of America's most admired instant city, from its days as a sleepy Mexican village, through the Gold Rush and into its establishment as a major international port. Roger Lotchin examines the urbanizing influences in San Francisco and compares these to other urban centers, doing so against a diverse backdrop of vigilantes, opium dens, and other unforgettable institutions.

Annals of San Francisco.
The Annals of San Francisco by Frank Soule, John H. Gihon, James Nisbet
Originally published 1855. Many illustrations.


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.


The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
Herbert Asbury
Asbury's history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849..."

Arrived on the SS Tennessee, March 6, 1853

Levi strauss was born in Buttenheim, Bavaria on February 26, 1829. He emigrated to New York in 1847 where he joined his brothers in a dry goods busienss entitled "J. Strauss Brother & Co."

Amazing Americans: Western Expansion and Reform Era: Levi Strauss

When news of California's Gold Rush reached the East, Levi emigrated to San Francisco via the Isthmus of Panama. He continued his family's dry goods business in San Francisco where they outfitted the miners. In 1863, the company took the name "Levi Strauss & Co."

The story I was brought up with in San Francisco is that Levi realized that the overalls worn by the miners had "weak spots" which wore through, so he tried rivets at the pressure points. They worked, and a successful trade became even more successful.

During his lifetime, Levi's estate reached $6 million. He was (and his family still is) a great philantropists. They help San Francisco and many other cities and causes around the world with their generosity.


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Page: http://www.maritimeheritage.org/vips/
Date Entered: Between 1998 and 2008
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