A guide to the Typescript of California Gold Rush Fleet, 1970-1981
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A Guide to the Typescript of California Gold Rush Fleet
HDC1651
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Title: Typescript of California Gold Rush Fleet
Date: 1970-1981
Date (bulk): 1981
Identifier/Call Number: HDC1651 (SAFR 23807)
Author:
Goodman, John B. (John Bartlett), 1901-1991
Physical Description:
1 item
Repository:
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Historic Documents Department
Building E, Fort Mason
San Francisco, CA 94123
Abstract: Typescript of California Gold Rush Fleet (SAFR 23807, HDC 1651) is a copy of a typescript entitled, California Gold Rush Fleet:
Vessels Sailing From the East Coast of the United States and Canada, December 7, 1848 - December 31, 1849, Together with a
Cameo Biography of Each Vessel, by John B. Goodman. It contains encyclopedic entries for 22 of the more than 762 ships covered
in the much larger nineteen volume manuscript. Comprising 177 pages, including front matter, seven appendices (A through H)
and a bibliography, this photocopy of a portion of the larger work, also includes artwork and foldout hand drawn maps.
Physical Location: San Francisco Maritime NHP, Historic Documents Department
Language(s):
In English.
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Typescript was transferred from J. Porter Shaw Library in 2011
Historical or Biographical Note
John B. Goodman III (1901 - 1991) was an amateur historian who spent twenty years researching and writing about the hundreds
of ships that sailed from the east coast of the United States to California during the Gold Rush.
Goodman's major unpublished work, was his monumental California Gold Rush Fleet Encyclopedia of Vessels Sailing from the East
Coast of the United States and Canada for San Francisco, December 7, 1848 - December 31, 1849. This eleven volume compilation,
twenty one years in preparation, supported by eight volumes of addenda, extends to some 5,000 manuscript pages. Comprised
of individual histories of 762 ships in alphabetical order, it records a broad spectrum of information derived from many and
diverse sources about the multitude of gold rush vessels. The encyclopedia and a separately published key to the work were
left by him to the Huntington library in San Moreno, California at his death, on the eve of his 90th birthday. This collection
is a copy of twenty-two of these ship's cameo biographies.
Typescript of California Gold Rush Fleet (SAFR 23807, HDC 1651) is a copy of a typescript entitled, California Gold Rush Fleet:
Vessels Sailing From the East Coast of the United States and Canada, December 7, 1848 - December 31, 1849, Together with a
Cameo Biography of Each Vessel, by John B. Goodman. It contains encyclopedic entries for 22 of the more than 762 ships covered
in the much larger nineteen volume manuscript. Comprising 177 pages, including front matter, seven appendices (A through H)
and a bibliography, this photocopy of a portion of the larger work, also includes artwork and foldout hand drawn maps.
This is a collection of one item
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Gold Rush--California--1840-1850
Goodman, John B. (John Bartlett), 1901-1991
San Francisco Bay (Calif.)--Harbor
Typescripts
Maritime history
Author
Sailing