PBA Galleries

Five early issues, including:

• Volume 1, No. III. September, 1856.
• Volume 1, No. IV. October, 1856. Lacking wrappers.
• Volume 1, No. VII. January, 1857.
• Volume II, No. 5. November, 1857.
• Volume III., No. 1. July, 1858.

Five issues.

A gathering of early issues of this important and influential San Francisco based periodical. he literature, scenery, and history of California in the early days come alive in Hutchings' widely-read monthly. Hutchings' California Magazine began publication in 1856 and ran for five years. Farquhar notes "...in the pages of his magazine there is preserved a good deal of material depicting the life and scenes of California in the decade following the Gold Rush -material notably lacking in Bancroft's works,- especially with respect to Yosemite, the Big Trees, and other scenic wonders...in 1860 [Hutchings] gathered together extracts from his magazine and published them in book form...Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California..."