The final image of Benjamin Waters wearing his morning coat. Undated, likely between 1910-16. He dies on July 13, 1916, at age 88. See also P. 394 of the By…
Frank Hewson’s first voyage to San Francisco was on Patterdale, shown here tied up along the San Francisco waterfront. This image is from about 1880 and may be an actual…
The smallpox hospital where Thomas Waters Jr. may have spent a grim Christmas in 1846...the Marine Hospital at Hawkins Point, part of the Quarantine Station. U.S. National Library of Medicine.…
The earliest image we have of Amaret Dakin, and in fact, any relative from the Waters family. It is a hand-tinted daguerreotype, likely from the 1840s. See also P. 211…