Description
Title abstract for lot on Hyde Street between Geary and Post streets, San Francisco
Background
Thomas L. Pickering was a native of New Hampshire; he worked as a joiner in San Francisco and then moved to San Diego to build
wharves, dying there in 1851. James L. Gibson was born in Canada and came to California. In 1870 he was toll collector,
Strawberry Valley, Yuba County, and he and his family settled in San Francisco about 1879. He was proprietor of Aldine Photograph
Gallery in San Francisco in 1880, and died here in 1897.
Restrictions
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the City Archivist. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the San Francisco Public Library as the owner of the physical items.
Availability
The collection is open for research.