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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. 14.5x10.1 cm. (5¾x4"), brown cloth lettered in gilt.Later issue with 3 additional pages of "omitted names" at rear. Bound in a different cloth than the 1870 reissue and just slightly larger. 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. 1890]