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The San Francisco City Directory..1850

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Title: The San Francisco City Directory...September 1, 1850
Author: Kimball, Charles P.
Description: 139 pp. 14.4x10 cm. (5¾x4"), red-brown cloth lettered in gilt.Later issue, circa 1870, with 3 additional pages of "omitted names" at rear. An alphabetical listing of residents in San Francisco from 1850, contains over 2500 names and an appendix of general information. Howes states: "First real directory of this city, preceded only by two business directories." Only five copies are known to exist of the first printing. Cowan 132; Graff 2321-2; Howes K134.
Heading: Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher: Journal of Commerce Press
Date Published: 1850, [but c. 1870]