assistopf.blogg.se - Historic San Francisco by Rand Richards

Profiles of sites or attractions include hours of operation, costs, and a quick biographical sketch of a key figure.įour walking tours, a brief review of the sites, a chronology of events beginning with 1542, and a discussion of San Francisco's Victorian architecture are also included.Historic Walks in San Francisco will take you back in time as you follow 18 self-guided walks down city streets. Rand Richard's Historic San Francisco, is a combination history/guidebook is divided into ten chapters, each of which provides background information on San Francisco's historic buildings, museums, and artifacts. His correspondence includes papers for the Areatus. Perkins was a commission agent for a Boston firm based mainly in Penang.

The Areatus is also mentioned in the works of Thomas Perkins, Jr.

Wilson writes of his experiences on the voyage around South America and his plans to prospect for gold in California. Steel of Andover, Mass, Sept 6 re the Ship Areatus and San Francisco begun aboard ship and completed after the writer's arrival in San Francisco.

Horace Wilson: Three page letter to James C.

(Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University.) Wilson describes gold mining with his partners and how San Francisco was changing. He describes the weather, life aboard the ship, visits to Rio de Janeiro and Valpara so, and the formation of successive mining companies.

George Pickering Wilson: Wilson's journal chronicles his voyage on the ship Areatus around Cape Horn to San Francisco.

James Townsend (Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, September 10, 1830).

(Held at Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University.) Hill papers, 1849-1857: Documenting his voyage to California on the Areatus, experiences in the gold fields, San Francisco and Sacramento. The following have written letters and journals regarding their voyage on the Ship Areatus. Text and illustrations by Charles Warren Haskell

BookeĪbove list from: The Argonauts of California. Clark, Wm Hill, Sml Gibson, Win Murray, G. Smith, Levi Bigelow, Moses Gould, Otis Putney, J. Sargeant, M S Symonds, Natl Cheney, Paul Chesley, Sim Chace, Jas Hichman, J.

Built in 1839, measured 538 tons, was abandoned at sea after being caught in a typhoon at Laguimanoc (Luzon, Philippines) "in sinking condition" on Jwhile returning from Singapore. James Whooley, master (or James Warner Woolsey.) 143 in company.

From Boston: Bay State and California Mining CompanyĬaptain Whooley (aka James Warner Woolsey) PassageĪreatus (Bay State and California Mining Co.), from Boston April 4, 1849, 171 days to San Francisco, arriving September 22, 1849.