Juan Crespí / Account of the "Sacred Expedition," 1769.
Vicente Santa María / Journal of the first Spanish ship to enter San Francisco Bay, 1775.
Francisco Palóu / Account of the founding of Mission Dolores, 1776.
George Vancouver / from "A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean", 1792.
Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov and Georg von Langsdorff / The Rezanov Voyage, 1806.
Adelbert von Chamisso / from " A voyage around the world", 1816.
Frederick William Beechey / from "Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait", 1826.
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. / from "Two years before the mast", 1835-36.
Sir George Simpson / from "An overland journey around the world", 1841-42.
Edwin Bryant / from "What I saw in California", 1846.
Edward Kemble / Reminiscences of early San Francisco, 1847-48.
