It took a lot to excite wonder in the jaded eyes of San Francisco in 1860. The Gold Rush had swelled the city into a bustling, multiethnic entrepôt of 57,000 souls -- 10 times bigger than the ...

Muragaki Awaji-no-Kami was amazed at what he saw when he looked out his San Francisco hotel window on April 1, 1860. “One never sees men in the streets carrying goods on their shoulders or on ...

Historian Hubert Bancroft estimated that during the city's first decade, 1,000 people were working in journalism in San Francisco. Since the city's population in 1860 was 56,800, this meant almost ...

The first Pony Express rider, carrying mail and the latest news from St. Joseph, Mo., rode downriver, horse and all, from Sacramento to a tumultuous reception in San Francisco in the spring of ...

NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.; ... Eleven Days from San Francisco to New-York. Arrival and Reception of the Japanese Ambassadors. INTERESTING MINING INTELLIGENCE. Share full article. April 16, 1860.

The new skyscraper was the home of San Francisco’s prestigious newspaper The Call, owned by Spreckels’ oldest son, John. John had bought other papers, two in San Diego.