On Aug. 1, 1890 San Francisco financiers John D. and Adolph Spreckels purchased the San Diego Union newspaper from Col. John R. Berry and Andrew Pollock. Their ownership was not immediately made ...

Find: One woman stumbled upon the marker for Delia Bresby who apparently died in 1890 at age 26 'It's kind of poignant but it's also kind of what San Francisco's all about: we're a small town, we ...

Newspapers did not report the cause of her death, but a notice in the San Francisco Call on April 10, 1890, said, "Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services ...

King David Kalakaua of Hawaii had arrived in San Francisco on Dec. 5, 1890, aboard the USS Charleston. The king’s spokesmen said he came for his health and would remain for five or six weeks.

San Francisco’s skyline has continuously evolved over the years, and thanks to a new 61-story building, the city’s horizon has once again been altered forever. The 1.4 million square-foot ...

If Madonna shows the city as wide-open terrain, Women and the Everyday City: Public Space in San Francisco, 1890-1915 (University of Minnesota Press; 232 pages; $52.50/$17.50) shows how movement ...

Carbon-dating wood chips and charcoal revealed evidence of three earthquakes on the northern San Andreas Fault in 1838, 1890 and 1906. ... To the north, along the San Francisco Peninsula, ...