Chambliss diary
Subtitle: or, Society as it really is.
By: By William H. Chambliss. Fully illustrated with over fifty copper-plate half-tones and photo-engravings. Including twenty-five society pictures by Laura E. Foster.
Publisher: Chambliss & company
Published: 1895
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Chambliss, William H., b. 1865.; Voyages and travels.; Ethnic groups -- California.; Women -- California.; Law and politics -- California.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Social life and customs.
Other titles: Society as it really is
Description: William H. Chambliss (b. 1865), a Mississippian, came to California as a member of the crew of the U.S. Essex in 1886 and made San Francisco his home base for the next five years as he shipped out on a succession of merchant vessels. He then tried to make his way in the city in advertising. Chambliss' diary (1895) describes his years at sea and voyages to Japan, China, Australia, Hawaii, and other Pacific ports of call as well as his life as a San Francisco man-about-town. The book consists largely of gossip and scurrilous rumors about leaders of San Francisco's "parvenucracy" of the late 1880s and 1890s: the Crockers and De Youngs and less-well-known pretentious upstarts, cardsharps and gambling hustlers, and society publicists like E.M. Greenway.
Notes: No known restrictions on publication.
Largely devoted to the author's views of society in San Francisco and elsewhere, with a narrative of travels in various parts of the world.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.