KQED Field Trip: Early San Francisco Images, Maps and Links

Here's a list of resources that go along with our prototype, experimental KQED Field Trip, held Feb. 13, 2016. If you've got any links you'd like to add, please send them on to me at dbrekke@kqed.org.

Maps and images

http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb5c6006pw/?docId=hb5c6006pw&order=2&brand=oac4&layout=printable

http://www.trampsofsanfrancisco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Richardson_Map_SF.jpg

http://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb70000713/?docId=hb70000713&brand=oac4&layout=printable-details

https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/tf1199p19x/

http://www.ronhenggeler.com/History/yerba_buena/1846-47.htm

https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/tf867nb7vw/

http://www.ronhenggeler.com/History/yerba_buena/1851.htm

http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Portsmouth_Square:_The_Plaza

http://www.ronhenggeler.com/History/yerba_buena/1851map.htm

Georeferenced Map 1: 1853 waterfront compared to 2016 San Francisco:
http://rumsey.georeferencer.com/map/KkCmRZpyKiDWTVkUoqeknb/201501160455-fApGQ1/visualize

Georeferenced Map 2, showing 1857 waterfront and 2016 San Francisco:
http://rumsey.georeferencer.com/map/xdHMjGyhMj2O9A57aZZxie/201411012317-O83u9b/visualize

Online articles

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Bones-found-at-Transbay-Transit-construction-site-5267803.php

http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=WILLIAM_RICHARDSON_AND_YERBA_BUENA_ORIGINS

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Monumental-Man-Sausalito-memorial-erected-for-2939517.php

https://afsanfrancisco.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/vioget-the-first-survey-and-map-of-yerba-buena.pdf

http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/1st-S-F-civic-improvement-Yerba-Buena-footbridge-4649647.php#photo-4884791

http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hbbeg15.htm

http://vm136.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/collections/chineseinca/sfchinatown.html

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/index2.html

http://www.emperorsbridge.org/

http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/13/san-francisco-real-estate-prices-gold-rush

Books

"Annals of San Francisco"
Frank Soulé, John H. Gihon, James Nesbit
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/annalsofsanfranc00soul
See account of Richardson's settlement of Yerba Buena, p. 162 and after

"Two Years Before the Mast"
Richard Henry Dana
Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=aVKPZQbKev4C
See p. 261 and after, Dana's description of arriving in San Francisco Bay, and p. 432 and after, where he describes visiting the city in 1859.

"The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective"
Mel Scott
Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=xlE4hwWVqqwC
See Chapter 1 on the region's prehistory and colonization up till the Gold Rush.

"San Francisco, 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City"
Roger W. Lotchin
Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=GiAa8pLrSTIC

"Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco"
Gary Kamiya
See especially: Chapter 17, "Huck's Hideaway"
Available from Amazon (as well as your local bookseller or public library):
http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1014001201

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