The Port of San Francisco

Thank you.

Chinatown, San Francisco. 1800s

We are going into our 20th year and remain enchanted with letters received from people around the world letting us know that they found long-lost relatives in our Web pages.

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• The site has benefitted from the thousands of journalists who spent their lives working for California's early newspapers: publishers, writers, editors, illustrators, photographers, pressmen, secretaries, typesetters, newspaper boys and delivery people, etc. who recorded the 1800s in newspapers (New York Daily Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Examiner, The Call, Daily Alta California, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York Times)
• Authors of books on maritime history, websites, and dusty tomes at The National Archives in San Bruno, the Maritime Library in San Francisco, and the San Francisco Public Library, all of which provide information for this site.
• To all the people that eMail from around the world offering information, correcting information, complimenting the site . . .
• Robert C. Rosenbaum of California, the first donor.
• To everyone who purchases books, gifts, or travel through the site: THANK YOU! All of those funds go directly to support this research project.
• Harry Taylor for his adjustments to PERL which got the SEARCH engine working in 1998. I couldn't figure it out!
• John Ireland, who volunteered to provide lists, and who corrects errors on others from time to time. In November 1999, John started his own site with lists of passengers departing New York for San Francisco in the mid-1800s. Many of the passengers found leaving East Coast ports on John Ireland's lists can be found arriving on The Maritime Heritage Project lists.
• Guy de Rougemont, a PhD student in Paris. During the time he was working on a thesis involving California History, he offered encouragement, information about the French in San Francisco during the 1800s, and sent along lists and ships' descriptions as he located them.