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• Brown, John Henry, 1810-1905
• Mathieu, Edward F.

• Vignettes of San Francisco, by Almira Bailey (Gutenberg text)
• A Backward Glance at Eighty, by Charles A. Murdock (HTML at LOC)
• Seven Years' Street Preaching in San Francisco, California, by William Taylor
  • HTML at LOC
  • page images at MOA
• The Adventures of a Forty-Niner, by Daniel Knower (HTML at LOC)
• Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam, by Hubert Howe Bancroft (Gutenberg text)

• No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), by Caroline Barnes Crosby, ed. by Edward Leo Lyman, Susan Ward Payne, and S. George Ellsworth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Reminiscences and Incidents of "The Early Days" of San Francisco, by John Henry Brown (HTML at LOC)
• The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire, ed. by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text)

• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1906), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)
• Report of the Sub-Committee on Statistics to the Chairman and Committee on Reconstruction (1907), by San Francisco Committee of Forty on Reconstruction (HTML at cdlib.org)

• A Pioneer Pastorate and Times, by Albert Williams (HTML at LOC)

• Temporary Directory of San Francisco Business and Professional Men, Together with Directory of Municipal and State Officers, and Other Useful Information Gathered from Latest Announcements (1906) (HTML at cdlib.org)

• Alonzo Delano's Pen-Knife Sketches: or, Chips of the Old Block (San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1934), by Alonzo Delano, contrib. by G. Ezra Dane, illust. by Charles Christian Nahl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The City That Was: A Requiem of Old San Francisco (1906), by Will Irwin (Gutenberg text)
• Historical Souvenir of San Francisco, Cal., With Views of Prominent Buildings, the Bay, Islands, etc. (San Francisco: C. P. Heininger, ca. 1887) (page images at cprr.org)
• Bohemian San Francisco, Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes: The Elegant Art of Dining (1914), by Clarence E. Edwords (Gutenberg text)
• A Forty-Niner Speaks, by Hiram Dwight Pierce (HTML at LOC)
• The Natural Wealth of California, by Titus Fey Cronise (page images at MOA)

• Temporary Directory of San Francisco Business and Professional Men, Together with Directory of Municipal and State Officers, and Other Useful Information Gathered from Latest Announcements (1906) (HTML at cdlib.org)

• Reinvesting and Renewing for the 21st Century: A Community and Economic Benefits Study of San Francisco's Branch Library Improvement Program (2015), by San Francisco Public Library (PDF at sfpl.org)

• Direct Action: An Historical Novel (San Francisco: GroundWork, c2003), by Luke Hauser, contrib. by Starhawk (PDF with commentary at directaction.org)
• Homeland (2013), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
• Little Brother (2008), by Cory Doctorow (multiple formats with commentary at craphound.com)
• The Avalanche: A Mystery Story, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• Martin Eden, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Martin Eden: Romaani (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1920), by Jack London, trans. by Ville Hynynen (Gutenberg text)
• McTeague: A Story of San Francisco, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (London: W. Heinemann, 1922), by Frank Norris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Seven Smiles and a Few Fibs (London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely, c1897), by Thomas J. Vivian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Seven Smiles and a Few Fibs (New York: R. F. Fenno and Co., c1900), by Thomas J. Vivian (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sisters-in-Law: A Novel of Our Time, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• The Sisters-in-Law: A Novel of Our Time (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1921), by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Socialist and the Prince (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Co, 1903), by Mrs. Fremont Older, illust. by Harrison Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Californians, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at archive.org
• For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told (San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1903), by Charles Warren Stoddard, illust. by Marshall Douglass (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lanagan, Amateur Detective (New York: Sturgis and Walton Co., 1913), by Edward H. Hurlbut, illust. by Frederic Dorr Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Man's Woman (1904), by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• Other Things Being Equal, by Emma Wolf (Gutenberg text)
• Sleeping Fires, by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (Gutenberg text)
• The Maltese Falcon (c1930), by Dashiell Hammett (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Shadow of Quong Lung (Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900), by C. W. Doyle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beaches and Parks From San Francisco to Monterey (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2012), by California Coastal Commission, ed. by Steve Scholl (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Annals of San Francisco (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1855), by Frank Soule, John H. Gihon, and James Nisbet (illustrated HTML at sfgenealogy.com)
• The Beginnings of San Francisco: From the Expedition of Anza, 1774, to the City Charter of April 15, 1850, With Biographical and Other Notes (New York: John C. Rankin Company, c1912), by Zoeth S. Eldredge (HTML at sfgenealogy.com)
• The City That Was: A Requiem of Old San Francisco (1906), by Will Irwin (Gutenberg text)
• Historical Souvenir of San Francisco, Cal., With Views of Prominent Buildings, the Bay, Islands, etc. (San Francisco: C. P. Heininger, ca. 1887) (page images at cprr.org)
• Men and Memories of San Francisco, in the "Spring of '50", by T. A. Barry and B. A. Patten (HTML at LOC)
• Narrative of Edward McGowan, by Edward McGowan (at LOC)
• Reminiscences and Incidents of "The Early Days" of San Francisco, by John Henry Brown (HTML at LOC)
• The Vigilance Committee of '56, by James O'Meara (Gutenberg text)
• History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851: A Study of Social Control on the California Frontier in the Days of the Gold Rush (University of California Publications in History v12; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1921), by Mary Floyd Williams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Pioneer Pastorate and Times, by Albert Williams (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of California, 1846-1861, by William T. Sherman (HTML at LOC)

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