Buried Ships
Bibliography
Newspaper Articles
"A Gold Rush Ship Is Dug Up Downtown." Robinson, Eugene. San Francisco
Chronicle. 4 May 1978. 3. [78]
"A Historical Hulk." San Francisco Daily Call. 6 July 1890.
11. [90b]
"Big Building to Be Ready in 1923." [Federal Reserve Bank.] San
Francisco Chronicle. 26 August 1922.
"Breaking up of Old Ships at the Rincon." Daily Evening Bulletin.
11 February 1857. 3. [57]
"Builders unearth problems with a Gold Rush vessel." Adams, Gerald.
San
Francisco Examiner. 7 December 1979. 3. [79]
"Diggers on Telegraph Hill Pursue Clues to a Mystery." Nolte, Carl.
San
Francisco Chronicle. 23 February 1980. 3.
"Euphemia's Hulk Found Thirty Feet Beneath Level of Street." San
Francisco Chronicle. 15 January 1921. front page. [21]
"Experts dig up nautical past of long-buried 1818 whaler." San Francisco
Chronicle. 28 January 2006. A1.
"Few clues unearthed about mystery ship buried after Gold Rush. Dug
up at condo project, site of old 'maritime junkyard'". San Francisco
Chronicle. 8 September 2001. B4.
"Gold Rush Fleet's Muddy Ghosts." San Francisco Chronicle. 4
July 1988. A3.
"Griffin's Wharf." Daily Alta California. 10 July 1852. 2. [52]
"Historic Old Ship Niantic Remembered." San Francisco Examiner.
20 September 1919. 3.
"Muni Diggers Uncover Bit of S.F.'s Past." San Francisco Chronicle.
7 December 1994. A17. [94]
"Only Quick Cash Can Save Gold Rush Ship." San Francisco Chronicle.
11 May 1978. 2.
"Opening of the New Merchants' Exchange." Daily Alta California.
7 June 1866. 1. [66]
"Panama Passengers, Who Rounded The Horn Fifty Years Ago, Gather At
The Table." San Francisco Examiner. 10 August 1899. 3. [99]
"Reminiscences." Daily Alta California. 22 May, 29 May and 5
June 1882. front pages. [82]
"Ships Beneath The City." Robinson, Judith. San Francisco Chronicle
& Examiner. 7 December 1980. California Living Section. 54. [80]
"Ships Under San Francisco." Nolte, Carl. San Francisco Chronicle.
14 March 1999. Front page.
"Sunken and Forgotten." San Francisco Examiner. 31 August 1890.
13. [90]
"Thar she lies! Ship dig finds some old wood." Adams, Gerald. San
Francisco Examiner. 23 February 1980. 3.
"The Armada of Golden Dreams." Thompson, Walter J. San Francisco
Chronicle. 2 July 1916. 28.
"The Old Niantic." San Francisco Morning Call. 26 March 1893.
6.
"The Old Niantic Sinks Out of Sight Again." San Francisco Chronicle.
12 May 1978. 2.
"Riptides: The Story of the Niantic." O'Brien, Robert. San Francisco
Chronicle. 11 April (16), 13 April (18), 15 April (18) 1949.
"The Topography of the City." Daily Alta California. 11 November
1857. 2. [57b]
"Unearthing a ghost ship. Financial District yields long-buried Gold
Rush relic." San Francisco Chronicle. 7 September 2001. A1.
"Up from the depths, 150 years after it was buried, Gold Rush ship
unearthed in S.F.'s Financial District." San Francisco Chronicle.
8 September 2001. A1.
Books
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of California. Volume VI. 1888:
The History Co., San Francisco. (168.) [BA]
Delgado, James P. United States Department of the Interior, National
Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination
Form. 1987: San Francisco. [JD]
Goldman, John B. III. The Key to the Golden Encyclopedia of the
California Gold Rush Fleet. 1992: Los Angeles. [JG]
Kortum, Karl; Harmon, Albert; Soeten, Harlan. Notes on the Gold
Rush Ships. 1963: San Francisco.
Kemble, John Haskell. San Francisco Bay: A Pictorial Maritime History.
1957: Cambridge, Maryland.
Kimball, Charles P. The San Francisco City Directory. 1850:
San Francisco. [50]
Langley, Henry G. San Francisco Directory. 1862, 1874, 1881:
San Francisco. [62] [74] [81]
LeCount & Strong. San Francisco Directory. 1854: San Francisco.
[54]
Olmstead, Roger R.; Olmstead, Nancy L.; Prichett, Jack. Plan for
the Gold Rush Ship in Levi's Plaza. 1980: San Francisco.
Olmstead, Roger R.; Olmstead, Nancy L.; Pastron, Allen. San Francisco
Waterfront. 1977: San Francisco.
Soeten, Harlan. Scrapbook on the Gold Rush and Gold Rush Vessels.
Unknown date: San Francisco.
Miscellaneous
Matthews, F. C. Private papers. Date unknown, possibly 1889. (In a
section titled, "Letters to the Editor," included submissions by two authors,
J. C. and E.H.D.; copies presented in Kortum's, et. al., Notes on the
Gold Rush Ships.) [FM]
McNeil, Daniel. Private papers. 29 July 1968. (These were handwritten
notes on recollections from Pete Burns, "born in S.F. 1856," and Captain.
John Stenlund. The majority of the information was from Burns, with the
info on the Envoy from Stenlund. The original notes are presented
in Harlan Soeten's Scrapbook on the Gold Rush and Gold Rush Vessels.)
[DM]
"Over the Bones of Ships, The Montgomery Street Fill-San Francisco."
MacNeil, Daniel F. Unknown publication. July 1952. (presented in Harlan
Soeten's Scrapbook on the Gold Rush and Gold Rush Vessels).
Maps
Official Map of the city of San Francisco. Alex Zakrzewski. 1849.
Official Map of the city of San Francisco. William Eddy. 1851.
City of San Francisco and its vicinity. U. S. Coast Survey. 1852.
City of San Francisco and its vicinity. U. S. Coast Survey. 1853. [53]
City of San Francisco and its vicinity. U. S. Coast Survey. 1859.
Map of the Waterfront of San Francisco. The State Harbor Commissioners.
1869.
Websites
BART - History and Facts. 18 November 2000. San Francisco Bay
Area Rapid Transit District. <http://www.bart.org/general/history/>.
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