Images of California: San Francisco, seaports, coastal towns, shipping, Yerba Buena and mining towns.
Reprints of the following views of San Francisco during the 1800s are available by clicking on images. They come in varying sizes from 8×10 prints to quality glicee prints to posters. They can be ordered framed or unframed. If you don’t see a particular image you would like below, follow one of the links to Read More
I’m working and living in Anchorage, Alaska. I happened to come upon your site looking for some information on a shipwreck I have been researching. The SS Farallon is a ship that was constructed on Sixth Street in San Francisco in 1888 by Alexander Hay with construction supervised by I. E. Thayer. She was 171 feet long Read More
I am trying to run down information and specifically a picture of the Steamer Alexander Duncan. This is part of my attempt to put together some history the George Duncan (no relation to the boat) who was brought together with his family to Siuslaw River. He opened for a short time the first cannery and Read More
Los Angeles Herald, December 22, 1889 HANUKKAH. A Short Treatise on the Hebrew Feast of Light. Tuesday night, December 26 (Tevet 3, 5650), began the Hebrew feast called Hanukkah, or the Feast of Lights, which lasts eight days, and is commemorated in honor of the victory of the brave Maccabees over the hosts of the Read More
Alta California, San Francisco, California July 10, 1849 DEED FOR BENICIA CITY, FROM M. G. VALLEJO, TO SEMPLE AND LARKIN. (TRANSLATION) In the Town of Sonoma, Upper California, this nineteenth day of the Month of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven. When the Army Inspector visited Benicia in 1854, the place was five years old. Read More