• Marguerite Rubel's history
• New World Order Map Jacket by Marguerite Rubel

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• America's Sweetheart — 1918

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San Francisco - Fire Department

• Old Engine 21 SFFD
• Fire Extinguisher
• Patron Saint of Firefighters
• Notice: Important Meeting to Form a Fire Department — 1849
• San Francisco Fire Department History — 1856
• Map of the May 1851 Great Fire
• Eyewitness to the Sixth Great Fire of June 1851
• Biography of Lillie Hitchcock-Coit
• San Francisco’s Pioneer Steam Engine — 1856
• Evolution of the Department 1866-1918
• History of Fireman’s Helmets
• No Fire Danger in San Francisco — 1872
• How the Fire Department Telegraph is Worked — 1877
• Daniel Hayes and the Hayes Ladder Truck — 1900
• General Order re: Tappers Necessary at Meal Locations – 1905
• 1906 Earthquake and Fire Reports
• General Order re: Procuring Tappers following the Earthquake – 1906
• General Order re: Operation of Engines – 1906
• General Order re: Responsibility for Lost Tools – 1906
• General Order re: Catching Rats in Fire Stations – 1908
• General Order re: Use of Whips When Responding to Alarms of Fire – 1909
• Answers to Hydrantman’s Examination – 1911
• New Central Fire Alarm Station for San Francisco – 1912
• Foghorn's – 1918
• Response to the 1923 Berkeley Conflagration
• House of Alarm Bells – Central Fire Alarm Station – 1937
• History of the Fire Alarm System – 1951
• 1989 Earthquake and Fire Report
• Order re: Preparations for Predicted Earthquake – 1991
• San Francisco’s Response to the Oakland Firestorm – 1991
• Pt. Reyes National Seashore Fire — 1995
• “Fire Dept. Water Supply,” by Steve Van Dyke — 1997

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San Francisco - Genealogy

• San Francisco “Daily Morning Call” Database – 1869-1877
• California Genealogy Resources
• Online Surname Databases
• Story of the Ted Samuel Family
• San Francisco Genealogy

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San Francisco - General

• “Flags of San Francisco,” by Gladys Hansen
• San Francisco Firsts — 1850-1935
• Bill Roddy's American Hurrah San Francisco site
• “Vanished Waters of Southeastern San Francisco,” by William C. Sharpsteen
• History of Pioneer Street Names, by Henry C. Carlisle
• Slavery and California Statehood – 1850
• “San Francisco Facilities in the 50’s” – 1856
• “San Francisco at Statehood” – 1850 by Katherine H. Chandler
• “The Ideal San Francisco,” by Mayor James D. Phelan – 1897
• San Francisco’s Official Songs
• San Francisco’s First Brick Building – 1849
• History of Meiggs’ Wharf
• Founding of the Pony Express – 1860
• Frogs for the Sandwich Islands – 1880
• “Where Our Ancestors Bought Phonographs and 78s,” by Tim Gracyk
• Early History of Kohler and Chase Music Co.
• Ocean Beach Wireless Station – 1912
• Gasoline Rises to 18 Cents Per Gallon – 1916
• The Land of Bohemia –1917
• Not a Fish Story –1918
• Death of Lazarus, the Dog – 1863

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San Francisco - Geology

• Unvanished Story: 5,500 Years of History near 7th and Mission streets.

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San Francisco - Gold Rush

• “Ranch and Mission Days in Alta California,” by Guadalupe Vallejo
• “Life in California Before the Gold Discovery,” by John Bidwell
• Capt. Montgomery Ends Indian Slavery in San Francisco – 1846
• William T. Sherman – California Before the Gold Rush – 1847
• Purchase the Spectacular Gold Rush 150th Anniversary Poster – 1848
• “Discovery of Gold in California,” by Gen. John A. Sutter – 1848
• Capt. Sutter Describes the Early Discovery of Gold – 1848
• California Gold Rush Chronology 1846 - 1849
• Excerpts from John Sutter's Diaries 1838-1848
• Eyewitness to the Gold Discovery, by James S. Brown – 1848
• “A Rush to the Gold Washings,” from the California Star – 1848
• Thomas O. Larkin Writes of the Gold Discovery – 1848
• William T. Sherman and the Gold Rush – 1848
• Military Governor Mason’s Report on the Discovery of Gold – 1848
• Miners arrive on the Steamship California – 1849
• San Francisco During the Gold Rush Era
• History of San Francisco Gold Rush-era Street Names, by Henry C. Carlisle
• From the Diary of Alvin Coffey, African American 49er – 1849
• African American Rights During the Gold Rush
• The Gold Rush and Anti-Chinese Race Hatred
• Dramatic Impact of the Gold Discovery, by Theodore H. Hittell
• San Francisco Gold Rush Banking – 1849
• “Discovery of California Gold as Viewed in New York and London,” by Dean Albertson
• Gold Rush-Era Daguerreotypes from the Oakland Museum
• Miner’s Ten Commandments – 1849
• Commandments from a Miner’s Wife – 1849
• Gold Hunter’s Farewell to his Wife – 1849
• Gold Rush Stories from Pioneer Women
• Slavery and California Statehood, by Rockwell D. Hunt – 1850
• San Francisco at Statehood – 1850 by Katherine H. Chandler
• California Gold Rush Chronology 1850 - 1851
• 14 Lithographic Views of the California Gold Rush 1850-1857 in PowerPoint (900 Kb)
• Steamer Day in the 1850s
• Gold Mining Along the Klamath and the 1851 Indian Massacre
• Ulysses S. Grant and the California Gold Rush – 1852
• California Gold Rush Chronology 1852 - 1854
• Gold Rush Mail Service – 1854
• The Miner’s Song – 1857
• Sam Brannan Opens New Bank – 1857
• Chinese Miners in the Gold Fields – 1860
• First Mining Journal of the Pacific Coast – 1860
• San Francisco and the Civil War – 1861 by Charles B. Turrill
• A Gold Rush Poem – 1864
• Gold Mining Terms and Procedures, by Charles B. Turrill — 1876

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San Francisco – Graft and Corruption

• New City Hall – 1891
• Timeline of San Francisco Graft – 1906
• James D. Phelan Explains the Graft Issues – 1907
• Mysterious Death of Police Chief Biggy – 1908
• Report on Causes of Municipal Corruption – 1909
• Fremont Older Wants Abe Ruef Released From Prison – 1911

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San Francisco - Haight-Ashbury

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• Chronology of San Francisco Rock 1965- 1969
• David Gans and the Grateful Dead
• Bibliography of the Haight-Ashbury Era
• Bibliography of the Grateful Dead Eric Noble’s
• Diggers Archive
• Early History of Lydia Pense and Cold Blood
• Linda McCartney’s “Summer of Love” Exhibit at the Museum – 1997

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San Francisco - Hotels

• Palace Hotel to be Built - 1873
• A City Within A City – 1876
• The President at the Palace – 1880
• A Marriage of Giants – 1880
• Reserved Seats at St. Francis – 1917
• Old Letters Tell – 1921
• Mark Hopkins -Advertisement – 1929
• Mark Hopkins - See: Anson Weeks
• Tunnel to the St. Francis Hotel
• Online Hotel Reservation Service

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San Francisco – Japanese

• Relief of the Japanese and Chinese – 1906
• “Asiatic Coolie Invasion” – 1906
• James Phelan: “Rejoices at the Fall of Schmitz,” – 1906
• Internment of the Japanese During World War II — 1942
• Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry — 1942
• Excerpts from Gen. DeWitt's Final Report on the Evacuation of the Japanese — 1942

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San Francisco - Journalism

• Complete Sunset Magazine Emergency Earthquake Edition – 1906
• “Alta California” - Mark Twain’s “Holy Land Excursion,” – 1867
• San Francisco “Call” Marriage, Birth and Death Records 1869-1877
• Newspapers - Miscellaneous 1906 Earthquake Press Clippings
• SFSU Golden Gater– Previous Editions Online
• Bebe Daniels Advertises the Chronicle – 1925
• The Bay Area Reporter
• Hearst Buys the Chronicle Newspaper - 1999

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San Francisco – Labor

• Brief History of the Early Labor Movement – 1860-1906, by Dolores Waldorf
• Kearneyism in California, by Viscount James Bryce – 1877
• Remarks on Kearneyism by Denis Kearney – 1877
• Kearneyism, the Chinese, and Labor Unrest in California – 1877
• The Sand Lot and Kearneyism," by Jerome Hart – 1877
• “The Kearney-Kalloch Epoch,” by Jerome A. Hart – 1879
• “Progress and Poverty” —a Paradox," by Kenneth Johnson
• “Kearney Agitation in California,” by Henry George – 1880
• San Francisco vs. The Sand-Lot – 1880
• “Alameda Building Trades Relief Work” – 1906
• “Asiatic Coolie Invasion” – 1906
• Preparedness Day Bombing – 1916
• Women on the Musicians’ Union Board of Directors – 1933
• “Bloody Thursday” and the General Strike – 1934
• Musicians’ Union Report on the General Strike – 1934
• “Century of Commerce,“ Labor Strife Along The Embarcadero – 1935
• Labor Unions Condemn Nazi Bund Meeting – 1938
• Communist Menace in the Musicians’ Union – 1938
• John Shelley Runs for State Senate – 1938
• “Harry Bridges, Communism and Deportation,” – 1938
• Mayor Angelo Rossi’s Labor Day Speech at Treasure Island – 1939
• Harry Bridges Accused of Communism – 1941

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San Francisco – Landmarks

• California State Historical Markers in San Francisco
• History of Sigmund Stern Grove
• The Goddess of Progress
• City Should Buy Sutro Heights – 1902
• Views of the Cliff House – 1901
• Seal Rocks in Trust for the People of the United States – 1887
• History of Playland-at-the-Beach
• Reconstruction of the Ferry Building Tower After the Earthquake –1906
• Portals of the Past – 1906
• New Lighting for Sutro Baths – 1912
• Potentialities of the Cliff – 1912
• New San Francisco Mint to Open – 1936
• An Aquatic Park Needed – 1916
• The Sutro Offer – 1921
• Coit Tower Murals
• Dedication of the Dewey Monument - 1903
• Marston Building Historical Markers

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San Francisco – Maritime

• S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien
• Visit of German Fleet (Admiral and Mrs. Valois) – 1891
• Visit of German Fleet (Breach of Courtesy) – 1891
• Launch of the Japanese Cruiser Chitose – 1898
• San Francisco Shipbuilding – 1906
• The Visit of the British Fleet – 1924
• National Maritime Museum Association Homepage – U.S.S. Pampanito
• The Maritime Heritage Project
• San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
• Brief History of the Lurline, Malolo, and Other Matson Ships

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