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More San
Francisco Memoirs
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of illustrations
In search of stories (Preface)
Call it Frisco!
A city matures (Introduction)
The '50s
Shampoo, shave, and oysters
Frank Marryat
A bloody confrontation
Théophile de Rutté
"To the beach!"
Henry Vere Huntley
Foreign quarters
Charles Warren Stoddard
A day of discovery
Charles Warren Stoddard
Shanghaied!
William Taylor
Vigilante justice
William Orville Ayres
"It looks very like war"
Mary Jane Megquier
The first of the Mohicans
Eliza Woodson Farnham
The Apollo Balls
Amelia Ransome Neville
Luxury and decay
Louis Laurent Simonin
"Two Years" plus
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
The '60s
Homes, humble and haughty
Charles Warren Stoddard
California women
Louis Laurent Simonin
Broken reverie
T. A. Barry and B. A. Patten
Civil war!
Amelia Ransome Neville
An Englishwoman's view of the war
Isabelle Saxon
The Emperor Norton
Oscar P. Fitzgerald
The zealous poundmaster
Albert S. Evans
Bummer & Lazarus
Isabelle Saxon
The last days of Bummer
Mark Twain
Early Morning at the Cliff House
Mark Twain
"The cussedest place for women"
Samuel Bowles
Earthquake!
Amelia Ransome Neville
A bath interrupted
Louis Laurent Simonin
Mortal terror
Edward Bosqui
A second Birmingham
William Fraser Rae
The '70s
The Barbary Coast
Albert S. Evans
Steamer from China
Albert S. Evans
A London parson comes to town
Harry Jones
"There is little or nothing to see"
Anthony Trollope
Hoodlums and hash-houses
Samuel Williams
Drawing the line
Samuel Williams
Tourists in an opium den
Mrs. Frank Leslie
City of enchantment
Guillermo Prieto
Lost in the big city!
Guillermo Prieto
Feverish activity
Guillermo Prieto
Sunday in the park
"Simple Simon"
The '80s
The matinee parade
Anonymous
Tea with the natives
Rudyard Kipling
The '90s
"The Dumps"
James Fell
A true breath from the sea
James Fell
Fin de Siècle
Amelia Ransome Neville
Glossary
Resource Notes
Bibliography
Illustration sources
Index
About the author
Illustrations
After a matinee at
the California Theater (background),
Bush Street at Kearny, circa 1877.
Cover.
Yerba buena plant. Spine.
Cable cars on Telegraph Hill. Title page.
Jackson Street Wharf, 1859
Montgomery Street, 1854
Montgomery Block.
Mission Dolores, circa 1855
Hounds raid the Chilean quarter.
Steam paddy on Harrison Street.
Second Street before and after the cut.
One of the first cable cars.
The elegant nineties in Golden Gate Park.
Battery Street, circa 1856
Théophile de Rutté.
Bear-and-bull fight at Mission Dolores.
The beach and Seal Rocks.
Charles Warren Stoddard.
The Cobweb Palace at Meiggs' Wharf.
The woolen mills at Black Point.
William Taylor.
Surrender of Casey and Cora to vigilantes.
Public executions of Casey and Cora.
Seal of Committee of Vigilance.
Mary Jane Megquier.
A meeting of vigilantes.
San Francisco in 1854
A society ball.
Amelia Ransome Neville.
Louis Laurent Simonin.
Free lunch.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Oriental Hotel at Battery and Bush streets.
Looking down California Street.
Second Street being cut through Rincon Hill.
South Park and Rincon Hill.
Mission Dolores, circa 1865
T. A. Barry and B. A. Patten
Pro-Union rally, February 22, 1861
Russian Hill from Filbert and Grant.
Bishop Oscar P. Fitzgerald.
Emperor Norton.
Albert S. Evans.
The poundmaster.
Bummer and Lazarus.
Mark Twain.
The Cliff House.
Samuel Bowles.
After the earthquake of October, 1868
The Yosemite at Broadway Wharf.
Palace Hotel, opened in 1875
Anthony Trollope.
San Francisco in 1875
Samuel Williams.
Hoodlums of San Francisco, circa 1875
Guillermo Prieto.
Market Street at Geary, 1880s
A leisurely day in Golden Gate Park.
Birdseye view of San Francisco.
Rudyard Kipling.
Powell and Sutter streets in the 1890s.
Malcolm E. Barker.
PREFACE
In search of stories
For
me, one of the joys of research is that the expected so
often leads to the unexpected. I go along a path
confident it will lead me to Point A when suddenly I find myself moving in a different
direction. I end up at Point B, a more rewarding goal, while Point A is somewhere behind
me as merely a stepping stone. That happened with this book.
In
1994, after publishing San Francisco Memoirs 1835–1851: Eyewitness
accounts of the birth of a city, I began work on the sequel, continuing
the story of the city to the end of the century. I already had a number of pieces in the
computer and naively thought I needed only a few more to fill gaps. The overall concept
was to seek out reminiscences left behind by men and women who lived in or visited San
Francisco in the latter part of the 19th century. I wanted them to tell us in their own
words about specific events that shaped the city's history. If their accounts contained
personal opinions or vignettes, those too would be welcome. Rather than someone looking
back and saying, “This is how it was,” I wanted people who could tell us,
“This is how it is.” In the jargon of
historians this is known as primary source material.
Marilyn
Wick, a volunteer at the Marin Historical Society in San Rafael, California, told me that
while she was doing research at the Bodleian Library in Oxford she saw the letters of an
Englishwoman who had written about driving through Golden Gate Park in the 1870s, when it
was still under construction. That piqued my interest. I took the thought one step
further, concluding that there must be other first-hand accounts in England—indeed,
in most countries around the world. England being more accessible for me, I went there to
research.
Armed
with the requisite letters of recommendation and passport photographs—research
facilities in Britain are not as readily accessible as they are in the States—I
landed at Heathrow Airport on a cold but sunny day in March 1995. I spent 15 of the next
19 days in, or traveling to and from, various libraries and study centers.
At the
400-year-old Bodleian Library I saw the letters of Catherine Hubback, and read of her
drive through the park in a buggy drawn by “a charming black horse, who did not pull,
or run away.”
She
wrote to her son John on October 18, 1874: “The Park will be very pretty in 5 or 6
years—the ground is very favourable—varied but not too broken and they have the
most charming roads—smooth as a table. It is to be planted quite down to the
sands.”
But
she was less impressed with roads in other parts of town: “Of all horrible places to
drive in, I think San Francisco is the worst. The streets are dreadful—holes and
stones, & broken wooden pavements [sidewalks], 'busted up' in one place, sunk down in
another. Car tracks in every direction, which indeed are the only smooth places to drive
on, but which dislocate you when you have to move off.”
I had
already read similar accounts, so this was not new to me. Furthermore, it failed to
fulfill one of my few criteria—that to stand alone it should have a beginning, a
middle, and an end.
The
librarian then brought from the vaults a large, leather-bound volume containing a set of
letters that had been written by an Englishman as he went from one country to another on a
world tour in 1892–1893. Each letter was handwritten on sheets of the same size paper
and then bound together into this one impressive book. Unfortunately, I was not able to
learn anything about the writer other than that his name was F. Ashton Jonson, and that
these letters were addressed to “My dear Uncle.”
In a
letter from San Francisco dated May 21, 1892, he told of arriving by train from Sacramento
and staying at the Palace Hotel. But he said nothing that I had not seen in other accounts
by visitors who were intrigued by the Palace, Chinatown, Golden Gate Park, and the cable
cars. He, too, commented on the fog. “Except when they get sea fogs the atmosphere is
wonderfully clear, & what with the smell of trees & flowers, the situation &
eucalyptus combined, I think 'Fris-co is a lovely place.” And, like so many other
visiting men, he was impressed by the women. “There are more good looking women in
San Francisco than in any place I've ever been in,” he wrote from New York on June
14, 1892.
I
copied relevant passages onto my laptop, though still frustrated at not finding anything
new. This feeling changed when I did a title-word search for “San Francisco” on
the library's computer, and 267 records appeared on the screen. Although most referred to
other San Franciscos, a few did concern the one in California. Many were book titles
already familiar to me. But there were also some titles I had never seen before, such as To
San Francisco and Back by a London Parson, British Merchant Seamen in San Francisco
1892–1898, and The Wanderings of the Hermit of
Westminster Between New York and San Francisco in the Autumn of 1881.
(See Bibliography for details.)
Then,
it was back to London, where, in the hushed, reverential atmosphere of the British
Library's Reading Room, I combed more books for first-hand accounts of “my” San
Francisco. Journeys to the still-being-built Public Record Office at Kew (Surrey) and the
musty Newspaper Library at Colindale Avenue (North London) produced nothing for my current
project—although they did give me a tantalizing glimpse into the past.
All of
this resulted from my plan to look at a woman's letters telling of her drive through
Golden Gate Park in 1874. Those letters do not appear in this book. But they were stepping
stones.
Ironically,
when I returned to the States I learned that several of those books are available at the
University of California's Bancroft Library, Berkeley. But I doubt I would have known
about them if I had not done that search on the computer at Bodleian. And I would not have
gone to Oxford if I had not heard about Mrs. Hubback's letters from a woman in San Rafael.
Such are the serendipities of research!
At the
Bancroft I attempted a similar title-word search and got a message warning me that it
would retrieve “over 30,000 records and take a long time to complete.”
I am
particularly proud to share with my readers British Merchant Seamen in San
Francisco 1892–1898, because it is a book I do not recall seeing
mentioned in other histories of the city. In it, the Reverend James Fell recalls his years
as chaplain at the Seamen's Institute, which was located at 33 Steuart Street,
approximately where the Muni bus terminal is today, opposite the Ferry Building. The book
was first published in London in 1899 and provides a new dimension to familiar stories of
sailors on shore leave during the heyday of the Barbary Coast. Rather than carousing in
the saloons and brothels, these men competed in three-legged races, egg and spoon races,
and tugs of war. And they delighted audiences with concerts of choral singing. (See
“The Dumps” and “A true breath from the sea.”)
Two
other little-known stories are “Sunday in the park” and “The matinee
parade.” I found them by chance while looking through Amelia Ransome Neville's
scrapbooks at the California Historical Society.
My
search for eyewitness accounts of this period in the city's history continued through the
summer and fall of 1995. It is one that could go on forever. But an ending had to come,
and choices had to be made concerning which stories to include and which to discard. This
was probably the hardest part. In the end the process became a very personal one.
My one
regret is that I was not able to locate any first-person accounts by Asians or blacks, for
both groups were well-represented in the city during this period. In particular I wanted
to find pieces written by people from China because so much of the writing by caucasians
during this period was laced with scorn and derision toward them. I wanted to offer a
platform for rebuttal. But my search and enquiries have so far proved fruitless. I found
nothing at the Chinese Historical Society. Historian and writer Thomas W. Chinn told me he
has been on a similar search for seventy years! If I am guilty of any bias in my selection
it is that I have avoided material that was blatantly racist. However, to deny that such
prejudices did exist would present an erroneous picture of life in San Francisco during
this period, and so there remains an occasional slur. I trust my readers will view these
in the context of the era in which they were written.
In
reprinting these pieces I have resisted the temptation to modernize punctuation and
spelling, or to replace obsolete and rarely used words with today's equivalents. All I
have done is break some of the longer blocks of text into more manageable paragraphs and,
in a few instances, correct obvious typographical errors that might otherwise make the
text unclear.
In
some instances there are misrepresentations of known facts. Rather than correct the
original text I have added a comment either before or after such pieces. For the benefit
of students and other researchers who wish to follow up on specific data, I have listed my
resources by page number in "Resource notes" at the back of the book. In some
instances I use brackets ([ ]) to interject immediate clarification of text. Parenthetical
notations in the pieces were made by the original writers. All headings, with exception of
"The Emperor Norton," are my originals. Ellipsis points (...) within the text
indicate that several words or sentences have been deleted from the original. Longer
cuts—sometimes of several paragraphs—are indicated with ellipses between
paragraphs:
English
is a living language, and the meanings of words do change with time and fashion. One such
word is revulsion. Whereas today this usually connotes a
strong sense of disgust, there was a time when it also meant a sudden, violent change, as
of a feeling—not necessarily "disgusting."
Some
words do not survive more than one generation of speakers, and others are merely
colloquial. For example, the word deadfall (defined in
most dictionaries as an animal trap, or a tangled mass of fallen trees and branches)
appears in some of these stories as slang for a dive on the Barbary Coast. Rarely used and
obsolete words are defined in footnotes on the pages, and longer definitions appear in the
Glossary if appropriate.
Originally,
San Francisco Memoirs was intended to be a single volume.
However, with so much excellent material at hand I am extending it into a trilogy. The
final volume will concentrate on the earthquake and fire of 1906. This means I have now to
return to libraries and research centers seeking more stories. Readers who have first-hand
accounts among their family treasures are invited to submit them for consideration. (See
copyright page for address.) In the meantime, I hope you enjoy reading the stories as much
as I have enjoyed finding them.
Malcolm E.
Barker
San Rafael, California
March 1996
Index
Whereas the editorial
style throughout this volume has been to retain
the spelling of names and words as found in the original pieces, today's
standard spelling is employed in this index. The preface, glossary, and
resource notes are not included. Bold face figures indicate illustrations.
A
A la California
A Travers les Etats-Unis
Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey
Adventures of a Young Swiss in California, The
Alabama (ship),
Alcatraz
Aldrich, Dan
Alert (ship)
Alta California, The
See San Francisco Alta Calif.
American Theater
Ames, Pelham
Angel Island
Annals of San Francisco
Apollo Balls
Apollo Hall
Apron Full of Gold
Aquatic Park
Atherton, Gertrude
Athletic Club, The
Ayres, W. O.
B
Baldwin Theater
Baldwin, Captain and Mrs.Charles
Baldwin, E. J. ("Lucky"),
Balestier, Caroline
Balestier, Charles Wolcott
Bancroft, H. H.
Bank of California
Barbary Coast
prostitution
shanghaiing
tour of
Barnum Restaurant
Barron, William and Pepe
Barry, T. A.
"Battle Cry of Freedom"
bear-bull fights
Beardsley, Aubrey
"Ben Bolt"
Bierce, Ambrose
Bierstadt, Albert
Bight, John
Birch, Billy
Bishop of California
Black Point
Bluebeard
Bohemian Club, The
Bolado, Don
boot-blacking saloon
Bosqui, Edward
Both, Honest John
Botts, William (Billy)
bounty men
Bowles, Samuel
Brewster, Captain
British Merchant Seamen in San Francisco, 1892-1898
Broadway Wharf
Bromley, "Uncle George,"
Bromley, Isaac T.
Broom Rangers
Buckley, Chris
Bummer and Lazarus
Burgess, Gelett
Bush Street Theater
Bush, Dave
Butcher Town
Byron
C
cable cars,
illust., title page
Caen, Herb
California, In-Doors and Out
California Midwinter International Exposition
California Sketches New and Old
California Theater
California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham ...
California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants
Californian (newspaper)
Calvary Church
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick
Captains Courageous
Carmen
Casey, James P.,
cemetery
See Lone Mountain Cemetery
Central Basin,
Central Pacific Railroad
chanties
Chapman, J. M. (ship)
Chileans
China Basin
Chinatown,
Chinese
arrival of
attacks on
laborers
opium dens
prostitution
Chy Lung & Co.,
City of Peking (ship)
Civil War
"Clare's Dragoons"
Clark's Point,
Clemens, Samuel L.
See Twain, Mark
Cliff House
Mark Twain and
Clifton, Lord Talbot
coal
Cobweb Palace,
Coit, Howard and Mrs.
Coleman, David
Coleman, Mrs. Evan
Coleman, William T.
Colma
Colton, David
Colville Troupe
Committee of Vigilance
See vigilantes
Congdon, George
Connelly, Captain
Contra Costa
Coolbrith, Ina
Cora, Charles
Corbett, Gentleman Jim
Court of Historical Review
crab fishing
crime
See also vigilantes
Crittenden, Mary
Crocker, Charles
Crocker, Fred
Crockett, J. B.
currency
customs officers
Cutts, Addie
Cypress Lawn
D
Dana Point
Dana, Richard H., Jr.
Day and Martin
de Lussan, Zélie
de Rutté, Théophile,
de Young, Charles
de Young, Michael
Decoration Day
Del Monte (resort hotel)
Diamond Palace
"Dixie"
Dixon, Maynard
Doane, Charles
dogs, stray
See also Bummer and Lazarus
Donahue, Peter
Don't Call it Frisco
Douglas, Stephen A.
Doxey's bookshop
Duane, Charles
Dumps, The
Dundrearys
E
earthquakes
of 1865
of 1868,
of 1906
Easton, The Rev. Giles
education
Electric Tower, The
English
Euclid
Evans, Albert S.
exports
F
Fairfax, Charley
Fantastic City, The
Fardon, G. R.
Farnham, Eliza W.
fashions
men's
women's
Fell, The Rev.James
Finnegan, P. A.
firefighting service
fires
fiscal problems
Fitzgerald, Bishop Oscar P.
Five Years Within the Golden Gate
fleas
Flood, James
flume
fog
food
See also meals, restaurant
Fort Gunnybags
Fort Point
Fort Vigilance
See Fort Gunnybags
Franklin, Benjamin
free lunches
Freemasons
French, the
boot-blacks
church
firefighters
influence of
quarter
Friedlander family
G
Gailhard Hotel
gardens
Gautier, M. and Mme.
Germans
Gilbert & Sullivan
Gilman, Mabel
Goddefroy, Alfred
Golden Era
See San Francisco Golden Era
Golden Gate
Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate International Exposition
Golden Gate Park
Gordon's Sugar Refinery
Gordon, George
Grace Church
Grand Opera House
Great Republic (ship)
greenways (dance)
Gudde, Erwin G.
Gunga Din
Gwin, Lucy
Gwin, Senator William
H
Haggin, James B. A.
Hall, Lucy
Halleck, Henry W.
Halladie, Andrew S.
Hansen, Gladys
Happy Valley,
Harper's Magazine
Harte, Bret
Hayes, Colonel John C.
Hayward
hills, grading
See also sand dunes
Hittell, Theodore
HMS Pinafore
HMS Sutlej
Holt, Mrs. Thomas
hoodlums
Hooker, Joseph
Hopkins, Mark
Hopkins, Sterling
hotels
See also separate listings:
Gailhard Hotel
International Hotel
Lick House
Mansion House
Occidental Hotel
Oriental Hotel
Palace Hotel
What Cheer
Hounds,
Huntington Library Quarterly
Huntley, Henry Vere
I
In the Footprints of the Padres
International Hotel
Irish
iron houses
Italians
J
Jackson House, The
Jackson Street Wharf
jail
Japanese Tea Garden
Jenkins, John
"John Brown"
Johnson, Robert
Johnston, General A. S.
Jones, The Rev. Harry
Jump, Edward
Jungle Book
Just So Stories
Justh, Emil
K
Kalloch, Isaac M.
Kalloch, Isaac S.
Kamehameha IV, King
Kanakas
Kearney, Denis
"Kearny Street statues"
Keene, Jim
Kellogg, Colonel
King, James, of William
King, Thomas L.
King, Thomas Starr
Kingcome, Admiral John
Kipling, Rudyard
Knights of the Golden Circle
L
Lackaye, Wilton
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lady's Magazine
Lark, The
Last of the Mohicans
Latham, Milton S.
Law and Order Party
Lawton, Frank
Leese, Jacob P.
Leslie, Frank
Leslie, Mrs. Frank
Leslie's Illustrated Weekly
Let Justice Be Done
Lick House
Lights and Shades in San Francisco
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln Grammar School
live oak
Lloyd, Benjamin
Lloyd, Reub.
lodgings
Lone Mountain
Lone Mountain Cemetery
Long Wharf
Lotta's Fountain
Lucia
Ludlow, Lynn
Lunt's dancing school
Lyle, Billy
M
Magnolia Balm
Maison Doree restaurant
Mansion House, The
manufacturing
Mare Island
Marryat, Captain Frederick
Marryat, Frank
Martin, M.
Marye, George T.
Marye, George T., Jr.
McAllister, Ward
McCarthy, "White Hat"
McCord, Jim,
McGowan, Ned
McTeague
meals, restaurant
See also restaurants
Megquier, Mary Jane
Meiggs' Wharf
Meiggs, Henry
Memoirs (Edward Bosqui)
Memorial Day
Men and Memoirs of San Francisco
Merchants Exchange
Mexicans
bear-bull fights
horsemen
Mexican quarter
Middleton, John
Midwinter Fair
Mikado, The
milk punch
Miller, Joaquin
minstrels
Mission Bay
Mission Dolores
as church,
as resort
Mitchell, John,
Monson, Judge A. C.,
Montgomery Block
Morby, Edwin S.,
Morrison, John C.
Moss Rose Club
Mount Davidson,
Mount Diablo coal,
Mount Tamalpais
Mountains and Molehills
moving houses
Mulford, Prentice
Mullen, Kevin J.
museum, Golden Gate Park
N
Nash, John Henry
National Maritime Museum
Negroes
Nethersole, Olga
Nevada Bank
Neville, Amelia Ransome
author
Neville, Thomas J.
newspapers
See also San Francisco
Nob Hill
Norris, Frank
Norton, Emperor
Notre Dame des Victoires
O
O'Brien, William S.
O'Connor, Con
Oakland
Oakland Creek
Occidental Hotel
Ocean House
Olmsted, Frederick Law
opium
opium dens
Oriental Hotel
Otis, James
Our New West
Overland Monthly, The
Oxford English Dictionary Supplement
oysters
P
P.M.S.S. Co.
Pacific Stock Board
Palace Hotel,
illustrated
Palace of Truth
Panama-Pacific International Exposition
Paquette, Mary Grace
parades
Patten, B. A.
Pearl, Cora
Peixotto, Ernest
Peruvians
Phelan, James D.
Pickering, Loring
Pier 43
Pilgrim (ship)
Pioneer, The Alahabad
Plaisted, Gracie
Point Lobos
Pomare, Queen
Pompadour Jim
Pony Express
Porter, Bruce
Portola, Gaspar de
poundmaster
Powers, Jack
Prieto, Guillermo
Pringle, Edward
prostitutes
"Purple Cow, The"
Pygmalian and Galatea
Q
Quick or the Dead, The
R
Raccoon Strait
Rae, William F.,
railroad, transcontinental
Ralston, William C.
rats
Red Cross
Regulators
See Hounds
Republican, The (Springfield)
restaurants
See separate listings:
Barnum Restaurant
Cliff House
Jackson House
Maison Doree
Moss Rose Club
Ocean House
Sans Souci
See also meals, restaurant
Richardson, General William
Richardson, Captain William
Ridley, Robert,
Rincon Hill
Rincon Hill and South Park
Rincon Point
Rives, Amélie
Robinson, Mrs. Tod
Rotten Row
Runyon, Damon,
Russian Hill
Russians
S
Sacramento Book
Collectors Club
Safire, William
San Diego
San Francisco Almanac
San Francisco Alta California
San Francisco Bulletin
San Francisco Call
San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Directory
San Francisco Flag
San Francisco Golden Era
San Francisco in the Seventies
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle
San Juan, cliffs of
San Pablo
San Quentin
Sanches, Romano Bernardo
sand dunes
See also hills, grading
Sanitary Commission
Sans Souci
Santa Cruz mountains
Sapho
Sather, Jane
Sather, Peder
Sausalito
Saxon, Isabelle,
Scannell, David,
schools
Schultz, George
Scott, The Rev. W.
Scribner's Monthly Magazine
scrub oak
Seal Rocks,
sealions/seals
Mark Twain and
Seamen's Bethel
Seamen's Institute
Second Street cut
Seismicity of the United States, 1568-1989
Selby, Mrs. Thomas
Selby, Thomas
Seven Sisters, The
Seven Years' Street Preaching in San Francisco
shanghaiing
shaving saloon
Shawhan, John
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Shumate, Albert
Sillem, Willy
Simonin, Louis Laurent,
Six Companies
slums
Smith, Addie
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
South Beach
South of Market
South Park
Spaniards
spider wagons
St. Francis of Assisi
St. Mary's Cathedral
Standard Theater
Stanford, Leland
steam paddy
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stevenson's Regiment
Stock Exchange
Stoddard, Charles Warren
streetcars
Stuart, C. V.
sugar refinery
Sutherland, Isabelle
Sutlej (ship)
See HMS Sutlej
Svengali
Swandown
Swiss consul
Sydney Ducks (Coves)
Sydneytown
T
Tamony, Peter
Taylor, The Rev. William
telegraph
Telegraph Hill
Territorial Enterprise
Terry, Judge David
Tetrazzini
Tevis, Lloyd
theater, Chinese
theaters
See also separate listings:
American Theater
Baldwin
Bush Street Theater
California Theater
Grand Opera House
Standard
Tivoli Opera House
Thomas, Captain J. B.
Thompson, Joe
Tivoli Gardens
Tivoli Opera House
To San Francisco and Back by a London Parson
"To Thomas Moore"
Tour du Monde, Le
tourists
trade unions
Transamerica pyramid
Transcontinental railway
transportation, modes of
Tricou, Henri,
Tribly
Trollope, Anthony
Turkish Baths,
Tuttletown
Twain, Mark
Two Years Before the Mast
U
U.S. Sanitary Commission
Union Iron Works
Union Square
University of Michigan
Database
University of San Francisco,
V
Vallejo, Dona Rosalia
Vallejo, General Mariano
Van Ness, Mayor James
Verdenal, Dominick
Viaje a los Estados Unidos
vigilantes
of 1851
of 1856
W
wages
Wallace, William T.
Washington's Birthday
Washington, George
Watkins, Carlton E.,
"Wearing the Green"
Weekly Mercury (Liverpool)
Westward by Rail
wharves,
Broadway
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