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Revision as of 23:43, 21 August 2009
Self-proclaimed Emperor Norton: he banned the use of "Frisco" to refer to the city of San Francisco. It is a misdemeanor punishable with a $25.00 fine.
photo: Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA
Pages in category "Famous characters"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 237 total.
(previous page) (next page)A
- A Century of Crime in Bernal
- A Defense of General Funston
- A RADICAL, WORKING CLASS US SENATOR???
- A Round of Drinks for the Good Richard Knight
- A VISIT TO THE BAY AREA IN 1835
- A.P. Giannini: The Banker's Heart
- Abe Ruef and the Union Labor Party
- Adolph Sutro
- Alfred "Nobby" Clarke: The Police Department's 'Emperor Norton'
- Alma Spreckels
- Alvin Duskin, High Rise Hater
- Amanda Genung: San Francisco’s Own Pistol-Packing Pioneer Photographer
- Aquatic Park and Maritime Museum
- Archie Green and New Labor History
- Atherton Mansion: A Corpse in a Barrel and His Domineering Wife
B
- Bancroft's History Factory
- Beat Generation and San Francisco's Culture of Dissent
- Beaux Arts in San Francisco
- Bending the Law to Serve Power: Justice Stephen J. Field
- Bernard Maybeck
- BILL BAILEY 1910-1995
- Bill Sorro
- Billie Holliday Busted
- Bishop James Pike
- Broadway Boyz of 1950s and 1960s
- Bummer and Lazarus
- BURNETTE G. HASKELL
C
- Cable Cars
- Captain John D. Spreckels
- Captain Robert Dollar
- Captain William Matson
- Cecilia Chiang: Chef as Culture Shaper
- Celebrating Warren Hinckle
- CESAR CHAVEZ and San Francisco
- Championing the Working Woman
- Charles E Moore 1894- 1953 "Iron Man of HENDY"
- Charlotte Blake Brown
- CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
- Chuck Cannon, pilebutt
- CORRUPTION CENTRAL: PETER P. McDONOUGH
- Craig Baldwin: Experimental Filmmaker
- Crocker's Spite Fence
- Curatorial Brilliance: Grace L. McCann Morley’s Directorship at the San Francisco Museum of Art
D
E
- Ed Roberts: The Father of Independent Living
- Edith Hamlin: WPA Muralist
- Edward J. Dupuy—Early Teacher Union Advocate
- Elizabeth Lowe Watson
- Ellen Clark Sargent
- Emily Pitts Stevens
- Emma Goldman in San Francisco
- Emperor Norton
- Enid Sales, Preservationist
- Eric Hoffer: The Right's Working-Class Philosopher
- Eugene "Pat" Paton
F
- Failed Poet Tries His Hand at Gunslinging: BLACK BART
- Failed Politician Slaughters Mayor and Supervisor--and the Cops Cheer Him On!
- Population/People
- Farms, Fire and Forest: Adolph Sutro and Development “West of Twin Peaks”
- Father of Southwest San Francisco Behrend Joost (1845-1917)
- Father Peter C. Yorke, Labor Champion
- Fatty Arbuckle Scandal
- Fillmore Bill: Bill Graham’s Legacy
- First California Women in Law
- For Whom the Belle Toils
- Fort Mason: Where Ronald Reagan Hallucinated During WW II
- Franciscan Country: Barren or Beautiful?
- Francisco Palóu
- Fremont Older - Newspaperman
- Fremont Older: Newsman, Statesman, Thinker
- Frigging (Mad) in the Rigging
G
H
- Harold Gilliam and the Birth of Environmental Journalism
- Harry Bridges
- Harry Bridges cont'd.
- Harry Britt on History
- Harvey Milk, the First Openly Gay Elected Official in California: Not Your Typical Candidate
- Haskell House
- Hastings College of Law Built on Genocide?
- Henry Casebolt, Transit Inventor
- Henry Cogswell and His Monuments
- HENRY GEORGE
- HOWARD THURMAN 1899-1981
- Huey Johnson, Land Conservationist
I
J
- J.B. Monaco: The Dean of North Beach Photographers
- Jack LaLanne
- Jade Snow Wong
- James Lick: Filthy Bum Turns Filthy Rich
- Jay Rosenblatt, Filmmaker
- Jessie Benton Fremont at Blackpoint
- Jim Ballard—Teachers' Union Modernizer
- Joan-Marie Shelley and the Merger
- John Reber: The Man Who Helped Save the Bay by Trying to Destroy It
- Joseph Alemany
- Juana Briones at Washington Square
- Julia Morgan
- Julius' Castle
L
M
- Maltese Falcon
- Manson's Mansion
- Margo St. James
- MARK TWAIN
- Market Street Between 9th and 10th and a Cursed Highrise
- Mary Ellen Pleasant
- Mayor Art Agnos
- Mayor Dianne Feinstein
- Mayor Dianne Feinstein's Failed Housing and Homelessness Policies
- Mayor Ed Lee
- Mayor Gavin Newsom
- Mayor George Moscone
- Mayor James Phelan
- Mayor Joe Alioto
- Mayor Willie Brown
- Mayors 1850-1897
- Melvin Belli, King of Torts
- Michael De Young
- Michael M. O'Shaughnessy
- Miriam Dinkin Johnson
- Mitchell Brothers
- Mortimer Fleishhacker Jr. Lived Here
- Mother, Mentor, Maestra: Chicana Artist Yolanda Lopez
- Murder in the Moana: The Death of Jane Stanford
N
P
R
- Raymond Dasmann, Pioneer of Environmentalism
- Real Drowning off Aquatic Park
- Remembering Harvey Milk
- Remembering Margo St. James, Patron Saint of Sex Work
- Rest in Print: Remembering Berkeley artist David Lance Goines
- Richard 'Specs' Simmons, Beloved North Beach Bar Owner
- Richard Chenery: Gold Rush Pioneer
- Roald Amundsen and Gjoa memorial
- Robert W. Carroll Memorial Plaque
- Roots of ''Rolling Stone'' Magazine
- Ruach Graffis, Legendary SF Cab Driver and Organizer
S
- SADAKICHI HARTMANN
- Sally Rand
- Sally Stanford
- Samuel Brannan
- San Francisco Diggers
- San Francisco’s Haymarket: A Redemptive Tale of Class Struggle
- Sarah B. Cooper
- Sargent Johnson: The "New Negro" Artist
- Satty and the "North Beach U-Boat"
- Sculptor Douglas Tilden Was California’s Finest
- Senator Alan Cranston: Hawkish Dove
- Shigeyoshi Murao
- Sixth Street (Part Three)
- Sixth Street (Part Two)
- SPEC'S: A Durable Legend
- Street artists
- Suffrage and Spiritualism
- Sugar Palace
- Sutro Heights
- Swan Song: Mission Bird Man Dies at 81