San Francisco Newspapers*

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1847 - 1848  California Star
1847 - 1848  Californian
1848 - 1849  Star and Californian
1849 - 1891  Alta California
1849 - 1849  Pacific Courier (aka California Courier)
1849 - 1851  Pacific News
1850 - 1851  Balance, Daily (aka Public Balance and Daily True Standard)
1850 - 1852  California Courier (aka Pacific Courier)
1850 -   ??  California Daily Record
1850 - 1850  California Illustrated Times
1850 - 1850  Californien, Le (french)
1850 -   ??  Gazette Republicaine, La
1850 - 1863  Herald, Daily
1850 - 1850  Illustrated California News
1850 - 1851  Journal of Commerce
1850 - 1852  Picayune, Daily Evening
1850 - 1851  Standard
1850 - 1850  Watchman, The
1851 - 1852  California Dispatch, Sunday
1851 - 1851  Christian Observer
1851 - 1851  Clarion
1851 - 1851  Dispatch, Sunday
1851 - 1851  Hombre
1851 - 1962  Pacific (religious)
1851 -  ?    Pacific Churchman
1851 - 1851  Pacific Evening Star
1851 - 1851  Pacific Standard
1851 - 1851  Pacific Star
1851 - 1851  Post, Morning
1851 -  ?    Press
1851 - 1851  True Standard
1852 - 1852  American, Daily
1852 - 1852  Bugle
1852 - 1918  California Demokrat (german) (aka California Chronik)
1852 - 1865  Eco del Pacifico, El (spanish)
1852 - 1865  Echo Du Pacifique, L' (french)
1852 - 1886  Golden Era (moved in 1886 to San Diego)
1852 - 1856  Journal, Daily Evening (Whig)
1852 - 1856  Journal, Evening
1852 - 1859  Prices Current and Shipping List
1852 - 1852  Times
1852 - 1855  Times and Transcript, Daily
1852 - 1892  Western American
1852 - 1853  Whig, Daily (aka Daily Whig and Commercial Advertiser)
1853 -  ??   California Christian Advocate, Weekly
1853 - 1858  California Chronicle, Daily
1853 - 1854  California Temperance Organ (aka Star of the West)
1853 - 1854  Catholic Standard
1853 - 1857  Chronicle, Daily
1853 - 1854  Commercial Advertiser (aka Daily Whig and Commercial Advertiser)
1853 - 1853  Curiosity Shop
1853 - 1854  Freie Presse (aka Daily Staats Zeitung) (german)
1853 - 1856  Messager
1853 - 1856  News, Daily Evening (merged with Daily Evening Picayune)
1853 - 1856  News and Picayune
1853 - 1853  Pacific Statesman
1853 - 1853  Picayune, Evening (merged with Evening News)
1853 - 1853  Present and Future, The (aka Public Ledger)
1853 - 1854  Public Ledger (aka The Present and Future)
1853 -   ??  Revue California, La
1853 - 1853  Staats Zeitung, Daily (aka Freie Press) (german)
1853 - 1857  Sun, Daily
1854 - 1854  Abend Zeitung (german)
1854 - 1854  Bon Ton Critic
1854 -   ??  California Farmer
1854 - 1855  California Mail
1854 - 1854  California Police Gazette
1854 - 1854  Colibri (french)
1854 - 1858  Courrier de la Californie (french)
1854 - 1855  Cronica, La (spanish)
1854 - 1854  El Dorado
1854 - 1854  Francais, Le (french)
1854 -   ??  Golden Gate
1854 - 1904  Golden Hills News (chinese)
1854 - 1854  Journal of Commerce
1854 - 1854  Leader, Weekly
1854 -   ??  Masonic Record
1854 - 1857  Messenger, Le
1854 - 1854  Mineur (french)
1854 - 1857  Oriental (aka Tung-ngai san-luk)(chinese)
1854 - 1854  Pacific Recorder
1854 - 1854  Passe-Partout (french)
1854 - 1856  Pathfinder, California Evening (aka Post and Pathfinder)
1854 - 1854  Patriote (french)
1854 - 1855  Pioneer
1854 - 1854  Police Gazette
1854 - 1854  Revue Californienne (french)
1854 - 1854  Spectateur (french)
1854 - 1854  Star of the West
1854 - 1854  Tam-Tam (french)
1854 - 1858  Town Talk (named changed to Times)
1854 - 1858  Wide West
1854 - 1855  Young America on the Pacific
1855 - 1856  American, Daily
1855 - 1929  Bulletin (Daily Evening, The)
1855 - 1855  Citizen, Daily
1855 - 1855  Cosmopolitan, Weekly
1855 - 1855  Criticus, The
1855 - 1855  Democrat, Deutscher (german)
1855 -   ??  Firemen's Journal
1855 - 1858  Globe, Morning
1855 - 1857  Journal, Daily (german)
1855 - 1855  Law Review
1855 - 1855  Medical Journal
1855 - 1855  Pacific Whalesman List
1855 - 1863  Phare, Le (french)
1855 - 1855  Presse, La (french)
1855 - 1855  Sud-Americano
1855 - 1856  Times, Weekly Sunday
1855 - 1855  Times, Sunday
1855 -   ??  Water Fountain & Home Journal
1855 - 1857  Western Standard (Mormon)
1856 -   ??  Boy's Journal
1856 - 1913  Call, Morning
1856 - 1885  Courrier de San Francisco (french)
1856 - 1856  Eagle of Freedom
1856 - 1856  Fillmore Ranger
1856 - 1858  Globe, Daily (aka National)
1856 -   ??  Hebrew Observer
1856 -   ??  Hutching's Illustrated California Magazine
1856 - 1856  Legal Intelligencer
1856 - 1867  Mercantile Gazette and Shipping Register
1856 - 1928  News Letter
1856 - 1856  Phoenix
1856 - 1856  Post, Daily Evening (aka Post and Pathfinder)
1856 - 1856  Post and Pathfinder
1856 -   ??  Semaine Literaire
1856 - 1856  Star, Daily Evening
1856 - 1856  Times, Evening
1856 - 1856  True Californian, Daily
1856 - 1865  Varieties
1856 -   ??  Vigilante, Daily Evening
1856 - 1857  Voice of Israel
1856 - 1856  Young America
1857 - 1857  Argus, Daily Evening
1857 -   ??  California Daily Register
1857 -   ??  California Free Press
1857 - 1857  California Register
1857 - 1857  California Republican
1857 - 1893  California Spirit of the Times
1857 -   ??  Gleaner (Jewish)
1857 - 1857  Ledger, Daily Evening
1857 - 1858  Mirror of the Times, Weekly
1857 - 1857  Pacific Courier
1857 -   ??  Pacific Methodist, Weekly
1857 - 1857  Plaindealer, Daily Evening
1857 -   ??  Settler's Free Press
1857 -   ??  Spirit of the Times, Weekly
1858 - 1858  Athenaeum, The
1858 -   ??  California Culturist
1858 -   ??  California Home Journal
1858 - 1858  Examiner and Enquirer
1858 -   ??  Hesperian
1858 -   ??  Home Journal
1858 -   ??  Illustrated Pacific News
1858 - 1860  Lyceum Gazette
1858 - 1916  Monitor, Weekly
1858 - 1861  National, Daily (aka Daily Globe)
1858 -   ??  Overland Mail Letter
1858 -   ??  Pacific Medical Journal
1858 - 1858  Republic, Daily Evening
1858 - 1861  Telegram, Evening
1858 -   ??  Telegraph Hill
1858 - 1869  Times (aka Town Talk?)
1859 - 1873  California Police Gazette
1859 -   ??  Echo della Patria, L' (italian)
1859 -   ??  Family Circle
1859 - 1861  Mineur, Le (french)
1859 - 1862  Mirror
1859 - 1859  News, Daily
1859 -   ??  Vox populi
1860 -   ??  Californian's Guide & Register
1860 - 1860  Constitution, The
1860 -   ??  Cronica Haliania
1860 - 1860  Gazette
1860 - 1876  Irish News
1860 - 1864  Journal, Evening
1860 -   ??  Nation, The
1860 -   ??  Pacific Messenger
1860 -   ??  Post, Evening (german)
1860 -   ??  Republikaner, Der (german)
1860 -   ??  School Circle
1860 -   ??  Telegram
1860 -   ??  Young Californian
1861 -   ??  Courrier des Ameriques, Le (french)
1861 -   ??  Humorist
1862 - 1879  Pacific Appeal
1862 - 1900  Report (aka Stock Report)
1862 - 1865  Voz de Mejico, La (spanish)
1863 - 1864  Argus
1863 -   ??  Bandera Mexicana (spanish)
1863 -   ??  City College Journal
1863 - 1865  Democratic Press
1863 -   ??  Irish Nationalist
1863 -   ??  Nationalist
1863 - 1863  Republic
1863 - 1864  Star, Morning
1864 - 1867  American Flag
1864 - 1865  California Ledger
1864 - 1868  Californian
1864 -   ??  Despatch, Daily
1864 - 1898  Elevator
1864 - 1871  Gazette
1864 - 1870  National, Le (french)
1864 -   ??  New World
1864 - 1867  Nuevo Mundo, El (spanish)
1864 - 1870  Unione Nazionale, L' (french and italian)
1864 - 1883  Voz del neuvo mundo, La (spanish)
1864 -   ??  Youth's Companion
1865 - 1866  California Leader
1865 - 1866  California Rural Home Journal
1865 -   ??  Christian Spectator
1865  pres  Chronicle, Daily (aka Daily Dramatic Chronicle)
1865 - 1869  Commercial Record
1865 -   ??  Echo della Patria, L' (italian)
1865  pres  Examiner, Daily
1865 -   ??  Flag's Evening Dispatch
1865 - 1965  Guide (The Shipper's)
1865 - 1865  Independent, L' (french)
1865 - 1865  Record
1865 - 1865  Spectator
1866 - 1868  Dispatch, Weekly and Vanguard
1866 -   ??  Free American
1866 - 1866  Irish People
1866 -   ??  Pacific Churchman
1866 - 1870  Tribune
1867 - 1868  Banner of Progress
1867 - 1876  California China Mail and Flying Dragon (chinese)
1867 - 1870  Calumet, The
1867 - 1869  Commercial Advertiser
1867 - 1911  Commercial Herald and Market Review
1867 - 1868  Critic, Daily
1867 - 1869  Despatch, Evening
1867 - 1868  Dispatch, Daily Independent
1867 -   ??  Golden City
1867 -   ??  Hebrew, The
1867 - 1871  Journal
1867 - 1876  Market Review
1867 - 1867  Pacific Chronicle
1867 - 1873  Pioneer
1868 - 1868  Free Press
1868 -   ??  Internationa
1868 - 1868  Journal du Lundi, Le (french)
1868 - 1868  Natonal Republican
1868 -   ??  Occident
1868 - 1868  Presa, La Mexicana (spanish)
1868 -   ??  Reforme, La
1868 - 1868  Register
1868 - 1869  Republicano, El (spanish)
1868 -   ??  Spiritual Light
1868 - 1869  Tiempo, El (spanish)
1868 - 1931  Voce del Popolo, La (italian)
1869 - 1869  Eldorado
1869 - 1869  Herald
1869 - 1869  Illustrated News
1869 -   ??  Sociedad, La (spanish)
1869 - 1869  World
1870 -   ??  Sonntag's Gast, Der (german)
1870 - 1874  Voice of Israel
1871 -   ??  Avenir National, L' (french)
1871 - 1872  Enterprise
1871 - 1871  Industrial Reformer
1871 - 1872  Manual
1871 - 1874  Pacific Coast Advertiser
1871 -   ??  Pacific Law Reporter
1871 - 1872  Pacific Ledger
1871 - 1872  Pacific States Enterprise
1871 - 1871  People's Journal
1871 - 1885  Petit Journal, La
1871 - 1871  Plebian
1871 - 1913  Post, Daily Evening
1871 -   ??  Progreso, El (spanish)
1871 - 1871  Republican Bell Ringer
1872 - 1924  Journal of Commerce
1872 -   ??  Once A Month
1872 - 1873  Pacific Advertiser
1872 -   ??  Reform
1872 - 1876  Register
1872 - 1877  Star
1872 - 1877  Visitor
1873 - 1875  California Reporter
1873 - 1874  California Scandinav (swedish)
1873 -   ??  Crepusculo, El (spanish)
1873 -   ??  Illustrated Press
1873 - 1873  Independent Defender
1873 -   ??  Shop and Senate
1873 - 1874  Sun
1873 -   ??  United Irishman
1874 -   ??  Bohemian
1874 - 1877  California Posten (scandanavian)
1874 - 1875  China News (chinese)
1874 - 1881  Graphic, Daily
1875 - 1914  Commercial, Daily
1875 - 1900  Jewish Progress
1875 - 1875  Ledger
1875 -   ??  Rescue
1875 - 1877  Stock Exchange
1875 -   ??  Stock Herald
1875 - 1879  Tecolote, El (spanish)
1875 - 1883  Tribune
1876 - 1877  American Union
1876 - 1876  Argus, Sunday
1876 - 1880  California Independent
1876 - 1878  Commercial Advocate
1876 - 1877  Echo
1877 - 1878  Fitzgerald's
1877 - 1877  Leader
1877 - 1883  Local
1877 - 1878  Mail, The
1877 - 1879  Mission Mirror
1877 -   ??    Portico
1877 - 1877  Spark
1878 - 1906  Argus, City
1878 -   ??    Exchange, Daily
1878 - 1878  News
1878 -   ??   Ribbon Reporter
1878 -   ??  Trade Herald
1879 - 1917  Colonia, La (swiss italian)
1879 - 1896  Elvezia, L' (italian)
1879 - 1879  Herald
1879 - 1879  Index
1879 - 1879  Republic
1879 - 1897  Republic, La (spanish)
1879 -   ??   Republican
1879 -   ??   State, The
1879 - 1879  Sun
1880 - 1883  Anglo-Spanish Merchant (Spanish)
1880 -   ??  Farmer's Friend
1880 - 1883  Globe
1880 - 1906  Mission Journal
1880 - 1882  Pacific Greenbacker
1880 - 1880  Pacific Metropolis
1880 - 1893  Pacific Pilote (german)
1880 - 1901  Public Opinion
1880 - 1888  Voz Portugueza, A
1881 - 1881  Golden Gate Gazette
1881 - 1899  Herald of trade and finance
1881 -   ??  Real Estate and Immigration Journal
1882 - 1910  Bien Bee (french)
1882 - 1896  Newspaper Union
1882 - 1905  Political Record
1882 - 1921  Star, Daily
1883 - 1888  City Front Gazette
1883 - 1885  Ingleside
1883 -   ??   Pacific Coast
1884 -   ??   Cronista, El
1884 - 1884  News
1884 - 1906  Vindicator (afro-american)
1884 -   ??   Western Herald
1885 - 1886  California Maverick
1885 -   ??  California Patron & Agriculturist
1885 - 1887  Correspondia, La (spanish)
1886 - 1898  Commercial Record
1886 - 1888  Enterprise
1886 - 1926  Franco Californien, Le (french)
1886 - 1920  Italia, L' (italian)
1886 - 1904  Oriental (chinese)
1886 - 1901  Pacific Skandinar (norwegian and danish)
1886 - 1892  Thunderbolt
1886 - 1917  Vestkusten (swedish)
1886 -   ??  Water and Land
1886 -   ??  World
1887 -   ??  Change
1887 - 1897  Petit Californien, Le (french)
1887 - 1906  Uniao, A (portuguese)
1888 - 1891  American Standard
1888 - 1890  Review
1889 - 1890  Pacific Investigator
1891 - 1919  Californier Arbeiter Zeitung (german)
1891 -   ??  Chinese World (chinese)
1892 - 1892  Enterprise
1892 -   ??  Free Thinker (aka The Jewish Times)
1892 - 1896  People's Press
1893 -   ??  Fair Play
1893 -   ??  Pacific Irish-American
1893 - 1906  Tageblatt (german)
1893 -   ??  Trade and Transportation
1894 - 1896  Democrate Guard
1895 - 1891  Golden Gate Gazette
1896 -   ??  Populist
1897 - 1905  Impartial (french)
1897 - 1935  New World Sun (japanese)
1898 - 1898  Klondyke Miner
1898 - 1898  Liberator
1898 - 1898  Non Partisan
1899 - 1917  Japanese American News (japanese)
1902 - 1933  Leader
1902 - 1903  Peace (japanese)
1903 - 1934  News
1903 -   ??  Protesta Umana, La
1903 - 1920  Tribuna, La (italian)
1904 - 1906  Pacific Posten (swedish)
1908 - 1918  California (greek)
1908 - 1909  Globe, Evening
1908 - 1910  Liberator
1909 - 1932  Serbian Herald
1910 - 1915  Revolt
1910 - 1910  Sun
1911 - 1925  Corriere del popolo (italian)
1911 -   ??  Western Weekly
1912 -   ??  Tharros, The (greek)
1913 - 1929  Call-Post
1914 - 1926  Chinese Republic Journal
1914 - 1918  Chronos, the Greek times (greek)
1914 - 1934  Hispano America (spanish)
1915 - 1917  American Independent
1915 - 1916  Observer
1916 - 1918  Mefistofeles (merged with Hispano America) (spanish)
1918 - 1927  Western Appeal (afro-american)
1921 -   ??  Centro America (spanish)
1921 -   ??  Russkai Gazette (russian)
1924 -   ??  Chinese Times (chinese)
1926 - 1934  Imparcial (spanish)
1927 -   ??  Kuo min yat po (chinese)
1929 - 1959  Call-Bulletin
1929  pres  Wall Street Journal, Pacific Coast Edition
1931 -   ??  California State Journal
1933 -   ??  Lucha Obrera (spanish)
1933 -   ??  Spokesman
1973 -   ??  Wassaja
1862 -   ??  Pacific Expositer

*Bibliography   
California Information File. California State Library, Sacramento, California.   
Daily Alta California. 12 June 1866. 1.   
Gregory, Winifred, editor. American Newspapers, Union List of Newspapers. 1937: New York. 50-56.   
Kemble, Edward C. A History of California Newspapers. Reprint of Supplement to the Sacramento Union of December 25, 1858. Re-published and edited by Helen Harding Bretnor. 1962: Los Gatos, California.