Gold Rush 49ers Discover the Mission - Revision history

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	''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''		''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''

			[[Image:15th and Mission 1868 View west 15th Street from Mission, Corona Heights in background. Large brick building is the State Asylum for the Blind and Deaf, southeast corner of 15th and Mission wnp26.1107.jpg\|800px]]

			'''15th and Mission, 1868. View west, [[Corona Heights\|Corona Heights]] in background. Large brick building is the State Asylum for the Blind and Deaf, southeast corner of 15th and Mission.'''

			''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp26.1107''

	Dilapidated buildings and weed-choked fields however, could not obscure the beauty of the land around the Mission Dolores. Whereas most of San Francisco peninsula was frequently foggy, the sheltered Mission area was warm and sunny, often when the nearby town at Yerba Buena was damp and fogged in. Fresh water streams ran through the fertile farmlands on their way to join [[Mission Creek\|Mission Creek]], which emptied into San Francisco Bay south of Rincon Point. The nearby fields and several marshy areas abounded in rabbits and game birds.		Dilapidated buildings and weed-choked fields however, could not obscure the beauty of the land around the Mission Dolores. Whereas most of San Francisco peninsula was frequently foggy, the sheltered Mission area was warm and sunny, often when the nearby town at Yerba Buena was damp and fogged in. Fresh water streams ran through the fertile farmlands on their way to join [[Mission Creek\|Mission Creek]], which emptied into San Francisco Bay south of Rincon Point. The nearby fields and several marshy areas abounded in rabbits and game birds.
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	[[Image:View across Mission 1870s apx 20th and Dolores wnp37.02113-L.jpg\|800px]]		[[Image:View across Mission 1870s apx 20th and Dolores wnp37.02113-L.jpg\|800px]]

	'''View across Mission in the 1870s from approximately 20th and Dolores, with the [[Jewish Cemetery\|Jewish ~~Cenetery~~]] in the foreground (now Dolores Park).'''		'''View across Mission in the 1870s from approximately 20th and Dolores, with the [[Jewish Cemetery\|Jewish Cemetery]] in the foreground (now Dolores Park).'''

	''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp37.02113-L''		''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp37.02113-L''

			[[Image:Mission Dolores circa 1866 wnp71.0725.jpg\|800px]]

			'''Mission Dolores, c. 1866.'''

			''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp71.0725''


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	"It was the oddest study which a man might imagine," recalled Gerstacker, who used an empty wine chest for a writing table. "The window, in its old disjointed frame, hung awry on one side. The walls were covered with a coating of dark grey from the smoke of a narrow chimney. A later hand, perhaps that of an Indian, had tried to represent on one wall the outlines of a large ship, in which the artist seems to have had a very confused idea with regard to the number of masts; so that the whole resembled rather a comb turned upside down than a ship."		"It was the oddest study which a man might imagine," recalled Gerstacker, who used an empty wine chest for a writing table. "The window, in its old disjointed frame, hung awry on one side. The walls were covered with a coating of dark grey from the smoke of a narrow chimney. A later hand, perhaps that of an Indian, had tried to represent on one wall the outlines of a large ship, in which the artist seems to have had a very confused idea with regard to the number of masts; so that the whole resembled rather a comb turned upside down than a ship."

			[[Image:View across Mission 1870s apx 20th and Dolores wnp37.02113-L.jpg\|800px]]

			'''View across Mission in the 1870s from approximately 20th and Dolores, with the [[Jewish Cemetery\|Jewish Cenetery]] in the foreground (now Dolores Park).'''

			''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp37.02113-L''

Aiobrec13: Changed credits from Greg Garr to Private Collection

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	'''Looking eastward toward Potrero Hill, c. 1870'''		'''Looking eastward toward Potrero Hill, c. 1870'''

	''Photo: ~~Greg Gaar~~ Collection, San Francisco, CA''		''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''

	Dilapidated buildings and weed-choked fields however, could not obscure the beauty of the land around the Mission Dolores. Whereas most of San Francisco peninsula was frequently foggy, the sheltered Mission area was warm and sunny, often when the nearby town at Yerba Buena was damp and fogged in. Fresh water streams ran through the fertile farmlands on their way to join [[Mission Creek\|Mission Creek]], which emptied into San Francisco Bay south of Rincon Point. The nearby fields and several marshy areas abounded in rabbits and game birds.		Dilapidated buildings and weed-choked fields however, could not obscure the beauty of the land around the Mission Dolores. Whereas most of San Francisco peninsula was frequently foggy, the sheltered Mission area was warm and sunny, often when the nearby town at Yerba Buena was damp and fogged in. Fresh water streams ran through the fertile farmlands on their way to join [[Mission Creek\|Mission Creek]], which emptied into San Francisco Bay south of Rincon Point. The nearby fields and several marshy areas abounded in rabbits and game birds.

Ccarlsson at 05:22, 31 July 2013

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	''by Charles Lockwood''		''by Charles Lockwood''

	[[Image:~~mission$mission~~-~~farms~~-c-1870.jpg]]		[[Image:MISSION-DISTRCT-easterly-1870.jpg]]

	'''Looking eastward toward Potrero Hill, c. 1870'''		'''Looking eastward toward Potrero Hill, c. 1870'''
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	''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''		''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''

	Dilapidated buildings and weed-choked fields however, could not obscure the beauty of the land around the Mission Dolores. Whereas most of San Francisco peninsula was frequently foggy, the sheltered Mission area was warm and sunny, often when the nearby town at Yerba Buena was damp and fogged in. Fresh water streams ran through the fertile farmlands on their way to join [[Mission ~~Bay~~\|Mission Creek]], which emptied into San Francisco Bay south of Rincon Point. The nearby fields and several marshy areas abounded in rabbits and game birds.		Dilapidated buildings and weed-choked fields however, could not obscure the beauty of the land around the Mission Dolores. Whereas most of San Francisco peninsula was frequently foggy, the sheltered Mission area was warm and sunny, often when the nearby town at Yerba Buena was damp and fogged in. Fresh water streams ran through the fertile farmlands on their way to join [[Mission Creek\|Mission Creek]], which emptied into San Francisco Bay south of Rincon Point. The nearby fields and several marshy areas abounded in rabbits and game birds.

	A pleasant countrified spot like the Mission Dolores did not remain a secret for long in Gold Rush San Francisco, particularly when the rapidly growing city was so crowded that thousands of Forty-niners slept in rooming houses by eight-hour shifts and opened their offices and shops in tents or flimsy shacks. In 1851 Frederick Gerstacker, an adventuresome young German, spent several weeks in the Mission district after returning from the diggings. He lived with several friends near the church in a rundown farmhouse where they stuffed rags in broken windows and cooked their meals over open fires on the dirt floor. Gerstacker also rented one of the dirt-floored rooms in the former Indian barracks next to the church so he could write up his Gold Rush experiences in a journal, which he later published as a book.		A pleasant countrified spot like the Mission Dolores did not remain a secret for long in Gold Rush San Francisco, particularly when the rapidly growing city was so crowded that thousands of Forty-niners slept in rooming houses by eight-hour shifts and opened their offices and shops in tents or flimsy shacks. In 1851 Frederick Gerstacker, an adventuresome young German, spent several weeks in the Mission district after returning from the diggings. He lived with several friends near the church in a rundown farmhouse where they stuffed rags in broken windows and cooked their meals over open fires on the dirt floor. Gerstacker also rented one of the dirt-floored rooms in the former Indian barracks next to the church so he could write up his Gold Rush experiences in a journal, which he later published as a book.

Lisaruth: changed prev doc link

2009-08-03T23:21:20Z

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	[[The Mission ~~District~~ \|Prev. Document]] [[Mission Life 1930s-40s \|Next Document]]		[[The "Good Old Mission Days" Never Existed! \|Prev. Document]] [[Mission Life 1930s-40s \|Next Document]]

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Ccarlsson: Protected "Gold Rush 49ers Discover the Mission": excerpted essay [edit=sysop:move=sysop]

2009-01-02T08:22:57Z

Protected "Gold Rush 49ers Discover the Mission": excerpted essay [edit=sysop:move=sysop]

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Ccarlsson: PC and protected

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			''by Charles Lockwood''

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	"It was the oddest study which a man might imagine," recalled Gerstacker, who used an empty wine chest for a writing table. "The window, in its old disjointed frame, hung awry on one side. The walls were covered with a coating of dark grey from the smoke of a narrow chimney. A later hand, perhaps that of an Indian, had tried to represent on one wall the outlines of a large ship, in which the artist seems to have had a very confused idea with regard to the number of masts; so that the whole resembled rather a comb turned upside down than a ship."		"It was the oddest study which a man might imagine," recalled Gerstacker, who used an empty wine chest for a writing table. "The window, in its old disjointed frame, hung awry on one side. The walls were covered with a coating of dark grey from the smoke of a narrow chimney. A later hand, perhaps that of an Indian, had tried to represent on one wall the outlines of a large ship, in which the artist seems to have had a very confused idea with regard to the number of masts; so that the whole resembled rather a comb turned upside down than a ship."

	~~''--by Charles Lockwood ''~~

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			'''<font face = Papyrus> <font color = maroon> <font size = 4>Historical Essay</font></font> </font>'''

	[[Image:mission$mission-farms-c-1870.jpg]]		[[Image:mission$mission-farms-c-1870.jpg]]

	'''Looking eastward toward Potrero Hill, c. 1870''' ''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''		'''Looking eastward toward Potrero Hill, c. 1870'''

			''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''

	Dilapidated buildings and weed-choked fields however, could not obscure the beauty of the land around the Mission Dolores. Whereas most of San Francisco peninsula was frequently foggy, the sheltered Mission area was warm and sunny, often when the nearby town at Yerba Buena was damp and fogged in. Fresh water streams ran through the fertile farmlands on their way to join [[Mission Bay\|Mission Creek]], which emptied into San Francisco Bay south of Rincon Point. The nearby fields and several marshy areas abounded in rabbits and game birds.		Dilapidated buildings and weed-choked fields however, could not obscure the beauty of the land around the Mission Dolores. Whereas most of San Francisco peninsula was frequently foggy, the sheltered Mission area was warm and sunny, often when the nearby town at Yerba Buena was damp and fogged in. Fresh water streams ran through the fertile farmlands on their way to join [[Mission Bay\|Mission Creek]], which emptied into San Francisco Bay south of Rincon Point. The nearby fields and several marshy areas abounded in rabbits and game birds.

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	'''Looking eastward toward Potrero Hill, c. 1870''' ''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''		'''Looking eastward toward Potrero Hill, c. 1870''' ''Photo: Greg Gaar Collection, San Francisco, CA''

	Dilapidated buildings and weed-choked fields however, could not obscure the beauty of the land around the Mission Dolores. Whereas most of San Francisco peninsula was frequently foggy, the sheltered Mission area was warm and sunny, often when the nearby town at Yerba Buena was damp and fogged in. Fresh water streams ran through the fertile farmlands on their way to join Mission Creek, which emptied into San Francisco Bay south of Rincon Point. The nearby fields and several marshy areas abounded in rabbits and game birds.		Dilapidated buildings and weed-choked fields however, could not obscure the beauty of the land around the Mission Dolores. Whereas most of San Francisco peninsula was frequently foggy, the sheltered Mission area was warm and sunny, often when the nearby town at Yerba Buena was damp and fogged in. Fresh water streams ran through the fertile farmlands on their way to join [[Mission Bay\|Mission Creek]], which emptied into San Francisco Bay south of Rincon Point. The nearby fields and several marshy areas abounded in rabbits and game birds.

	A pleasant countrified spot like the Mission Dolores did not remain a secret for long in Gold Rush San Francisco, particularly when the rapidly growing city was so crowded that thousands of Forty-niners slept in rooming houses by eight-hour shifts and opened their offices and shops in tents or flimsy shacks. In 1851 Frederick Gerstacker, an adventuresome young German, spent several weeks in the Mission district after returning from the diggings. He lived with several friends near the church in a rundown farmhouse where they stuffed rags in broken windows and cooked their meals over open fires on the dirt floor. Gerstacker also rented one of the dirt-floored rooms in the former Indian barracks next to the church so he could write up his Gold Rush experiences in a journal, which he later published as a book.		A pleasant countrified spot like the Mission Dolores did not remain a secret for long in Gold Rush San Francisco, particularly when the rapidly growing city was so crowded that thousands of Forty-niners slept in rooming houses by eight-hour shifts and opened their offices and shops in tents or flimsy shacks. In 1851 Frederick Gerstacker, an adventuresome young German, spent several weeks in the Mission district after returning from the diggings. He lived with several friends near the church in a rundown farmhouse where they stuffed rags in broken windows and cooked their meals over open fires on the dirt floor. Gerstacker also rented one of the dirt-floored rooms in the former Indian barracks next to the church so he could write up his Gold Rush experiences in a journal, which he later published as a book.

Lisaruth: added categories

2008-11-28T23:57:41Z

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	[[The Mission District \|Prev. Document]] [[Mission Life 1930s-40s \|Next Document]]		[[The Mission District \|Prev. Document]] [[Mission Life 1930s-40s \|Next Document]]

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