1857 – A letter describing a voyage from New York City to San Francisco, California to include crossing the Isthmus via the Panama Railroad from a young man, relocating from Maine with his mother and siblings to join their father, a federal construction supervisor at Vallejo
San Francisco: 1857. Unbound. This three-page letter, datelined “Navy Yard Mare Island / September 10th 1857 Cal.”, was written by William Wallace Hanscom. Quite legible and in nice shape. Hanscom wrote this letter to a friend after arriving at Mare Island in San Francisco Bay along with his mother..... More