Gold Rush Port

The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco's Waterfront

By: James P. Delgado

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Hardcover | 4 March 2009 | Edition Number 1

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Described as a "forest of masts," San Francisco's Gold Rush waterfront was a floating economy of ships and wharves, where a dazzling array of global goods was traded and transported. Drawing on excavations in buried ships and collapsed buildings from this period, James P. Delgado re-creates San Francisco's unique maritime landscape, shedding new light on the city's remarkable rise from a small village to a boomtown of thousands in the three short years from 1848 to 1851. Gleaning history from artifacts-preserves and liquors in bottles, leather boots and jackets, hulls of ships, even crocks of butter lying alongside discarded guns-Gold Rush Port paints a fascinating picture of how ships and global connections created the port and the city of San Francisco. Setting the city's history into the wider web of international relationships, Delgado reshapes our understanding of developments in the Pacific that led to a world system of trading.

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"A fantastic tale of maritime history on the Pacific frontier." American Archaeology "Delgado's book is both a monumental labor and a tour de force... Highly recommended." Choice "Valuable for enticing readers to history." Intl Journal Of Maritime History "An essential reference for anyone interested in the salty side of San Francisco history." -- Lynn Downey California Historian "An essential reference for anyone interested in the salty side of San Francisco history." -- Lynn Downey California Historian

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List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Theoretical Perspective	p. 13
Global Maritime Connections in the Pacific before the Gold Rush	p. 34
Development of the Gold Rush San Francisco Waterfront	p. 51
The Commission Merchants	p. 91
The Archaeology of Gold Rush San Francisco's Waterfront	p. 113
Gold Rush Cargoes: Evidence of the World Maritime System	p. 137
San Francisco and the Nineteenth-Century World Maritime System	p. 162
Commission Merchant Business Cards from the Supplemental Daily Alta California, October 4, 1849	p. 177
The "Representative Storeship" of 1849-1851	p. 187
Cargo Stored As Merchandise aboard the General Harrison Storeship	p. 191
Sources Consulted and Cited	p. 205
Index	p. 229
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