FoundSF

Early drawing showing the muddy streets of San Francisco (from "The Annals of San Francisco")

The birth of San Francisco covers the time from the Ohlone through the Spanish and later Mexican governments and the epic gold rush.

Prison Ship

Discovery of SF Bay

Mission Dolores

Mission Life in 1816

1835 Visit to the Bay

Sand Dunes

Exploration of Bay 1772-76

Indian Slave Labor

A Radical US Senator??

Early Mayors

Fire!!

City Origins: 1835-49

Yerba Buena Cove

Pre-European Landscape

Vigilance Committees

First Settlement 1776

Native/European contact 1772

Gold Rush Prostitutes

Gender Gap

Broderick-Terry Duel

Richardson and Yerba Buena origins

Happy Valley

Water Lot Speculation

Gambling Frenzy!!

Foreign quarters: 1854

First Farms

Gold Rush

Annals of San Francisco 1855

Early City Land Transport

Yankees come 1853

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