Category:Famous characters
Self-proclaimed Emperor Norton: he banned the use of "Frisco" to refer to the city of San Francisco. It is a misdemeanor punishable with a $25.00 fine.
photo: Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA
Pages in category "Famous characters"
The following 157 pages are in this category, out of 157 total.
A
- A Century of Crime in Bernal
- A Defense of General Funston
- A RADICAL, WORKING CLASS US SENATOR???
- A VISIT TO THE BAY AREA IN 1835
- A.P. Giannini: The Banker's Heart
- Abe Ruef and the Union Labor Party
- Adolph Sutro
- Alfred "Nobby" Clarke: The Police Department's 'Emperor Norton'
- Alma Spreckels
- Aquatic Park and Maritime Museum
- Archie Green and New Labor History
- Atherton Mansion: A Corpse in a Barrel and His Domineering Wife
B
C
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F
- Failed Poet Tries His Hand at Gunslinging: BLACK BART
- Failed Politician Slaughters Mayor and Supervisor--and the Cops Cheer Him On!
- Population/People
- Farms, Fire and Forest: Adolph Sutro and Development “West of Twin Peaks”
- Father of Southwest San Francisco Behrend Joost (1845-1917)
- Fatty Arbuckle Scandal
- First California Women in Law
- For Whom the Belle Toils
- Francisco Palóu
- Fremont Older - Newspaperman
- Fremont Older: Newsman, Statesman, Thinker
- Frigging (Mad) in the Rigging
G
H
J
M
- Maltese Falcon
- Manson's Mansion
- MARK TWAIN
- Market Street Between 9th and 10th and a Cursed Highrise
- Mary Ellen Pleasant
- Mayor Art Agnos
- Mayor Dianne Feinstein
- Mayor Gavin Newsom
- Mayor George Moscone
- Mayor James Phelan
- Mayor Joe Alioto
- Mayor Willie Brown
- Mayors 1850-1897
- Michael De Young
- Michael M. O'Shaughnessy
- Mitchell Brothers
- Mortimer Fleishhacker Jr. Lived Here
P
S
- Samuel Brannan
- San Francisco Diggers
- San Francisco’s Haymarket: A Redemptive Tale of Class Struggle
- Sarah B. Cooper
- Sargent Johnson: The "New Negro" Artist
- Satty and the "North Beach U-Boat"
- Senator Alan Cranston: Hawkish Dove
- Shigeyoshi Murao
- Sixth Street (Part Three)
- Sixth Street (Part Two)
- SPEC'S: A Durable Legend
- Street artists
- Suffrage and Spiritualism
- Sugar Palace
- Sutro Heights
- Symbionese Liberation Army
T
- Television invented in San Francisco!?
- Terry Francois
- The Black Cat Cafe
- The Digger Concept of 'Free'
- The Duel
- The Gold Rush Financiers: Pioche and Robinson
- The Hetch Hetchy Story, Part I: John Muir, Preservationists vs. Conservationists
- The Mysterious Buried Statues of Sutro Park
- The Old U.S. Mint at 5th and Mission
- The Palace of the Legion of Honor
- The Statue of a Heroic Crusader who Spent his Life Fighting to Keep Statues out of Golden Gate Park.
- The Weird History of the St. Francis Hotel
- The Wickedest Man in San Francisco: Ambrose Bierce
- The Workingmen’s Party & The Denis Kearney Agitation
- Tina Modotti
- TOM MOONEY