The Adventures of a Forty-niner: An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days.
- Singerman ID
- supp2634
- Year
- 1894
- Entry
- Knower, Daniel. The Adventures of a Forty-niner: An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days. Albany: Weed-Parsons Printing Co., Printers, 1894. 200 p.
- Author/Editor
- Knower, Daniel
- Location
- Albany, NY
- Holdings
- In most academic libraries
- Title
- The Adventures of a Forty-niner: An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days.
- Language
- English
- Printer/Publisher
- Weed-Parsons Printing Co., Printers
- Notes
- See p. 60 for remarks about a Jewish speculator in potatoes, then a scarcity; pp. 162-63, the owner of an unfinished brewery in San Francisco borrows money from a Jew at a monthly interest rate of twenty per-cent. On p. 46, a nephew of the Rothschilds is relocating to San Francisco from Valparaiso, Chile, to establish a new branch of the family’s banking empire.
- Collection
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Chronological File, 1676 to 1900
Knower, Daniel, “The Adventures of a Forty-niner: An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days.”, Judaica Americana II, accessed September 19, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/singerman/item/56770