The Blind Boss and His City

The Blind Boss and His City
Author: William A. Bullough
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0520322274
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

Social Mobility on the Urban Frontier: the San Francisco Merchants, 1850-1880

Social Mobility on the Urban Frontier: the San Francisco Merchants, 1850-1880
Author: Peter R. Decker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 992
Release: 1974
Genre: Merchants
ISBN:
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Academic paper by an author affiliated with Columbia University, surveying the economic and social conditions of merchant entrepreneurs from the eastern U.S., Europe, and other countries, who came to San Francisco between 1849 and 1852 and became suppliers to the gold miners. Investigates the assertion that San Francisco offered more opportunity for social and occupational mobility than U.S. cities in the East; and examines economic and social conditions based on class, ethnic group, and country of origin.

The San Francisco City Directory

The San Francisco City Directory
Author: Charles P 1821-1894 Kimball
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2018-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780343307417
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Signs of Change

Signs of Change
Author: Ron Robin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2018-01-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351137492
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Originally published in 1990, Signs of Change assess the people of San Francisco according to their own demonstrative standards through the visual symbols. Special attention is devoted to the visual perceptions of immigrants, those whose senses were not smothered by over-familiarity or protracted compliance with American mores. Immigration history is often studied in the concentrate exclusively on narrow connections between newcomers and their urban surroundings. The city has served as a data-base for the study of specific immigrant communities; frequently it has provided mere background for cloistered studies of immigrant life.

Dirty Deeds

Dirty Deeds
Author: Nancy J. Taniguchi
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0806157054
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The California gold rush of 1849 created fortunes for San Francisco merchants, whose wealth depended on control of the city’s docks. But ownership of waterfront property was hotly contested. In an 1856 dispute over land titles, a county official shot an outspoken newspaperman, prompting a group of merchants to organize the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. The committee, which met in secret, fed biased stories to the newspapers, depicting itself as a necessary substitute for incompetent law enforcement. But its actual purpose was quite different. In Dirty Deeds, historian Nancy J. Taniguchi draws on the 1856 Committee’s minutes—long lost until she unearthed them—to present the first clear picture of its actions and motivations. San Francisco’s real estate comprised a patchwork of land grants left from the Spanish and Mexican governments—grants that had been appropriated and sold over and over. Even after the establishment of a federal board in 1851 to settle the complicated California claims, land titles remained confused, and most of the land in the city belonged to no one. The acquisition of key waterfront properties in San Francisco by an ambitious politician motivated the thirty-odd merchants who called themselves “the Executives” of the Vigilance Committee to go directly after these parcels. Despite the organization’s assertion of working on behalf of law and order, its tactics—kidnapping, forced deportations, and even murder—went far beyond the bounds of law. For more than a century, scholars have accepted the vigilantes’ self-serving claims to honorable motives. Dirty Deeds tells the real story, in which a band of men took over a city in an attempt to control the most valuable land on the West Coast. Ranging far beyond San Francisco, the 1856 Vigilance Committee’s activities affected events on the East Coast, in Central America, and in courts throughout the United States even after the Civil War.

Act of Incorporation and Ordinances of the City of San Francisco

Act of Incorporation and Ordinances of the City of San Francisco
Author: San Francisco.
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230173191
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...shall be required of every officer and patrolman connected with the department, on all occasions, and they shall not follow any other calling during their term of office; sickness and disability only shall be an excuse for absence from duty, to be proved by the affidavit or affirmation in writing of the party, that he was actually sick or disabled and unable to do duty by reason of such sickness or disability; and it shall be competent for the captain of the district to administer the oath or affirmation. Sect. 28. Any member who shall charge or receive any fee or compensation, other than his legal salary, or shall receive any present or reward for services rendered, or to bo rendered, unless with the knowledge and approbation of the mayor, recorder, or city marshal, (such approbation to bo granted in writing, ) will be guilty of a violation of the city ordinances, and shall be subject to expulsion from the department. Sect. 29. Captains, assistant captains, sergeants and policemen shall at all times, on all occasions when on duty, conspicuously display their emblem of office, so that the same may be easily and distinctly seen, such emblem to be designated by the city marshal. 0 ARTICLE FIFTH. OF THE COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS. Sect. 80. The compensation of officers and patrolmen named i% this law is hereby fixed at the following sums, viz: To each captain of police 810 per day. To each assistant captain 88 per day. /' To each sergeant of police 88 per day. /To each policeman 88 per day. Poiiee offioers when sent out of the county on public business, shall be allowed all necessary expenses, upon the same being sworn to, and'approved of by the city marshal. Sect. 31. The salaries of the captains, assistant captain and patrolmen, shall...