Boardinghouse owned by Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco, 1888

Item Overview

Title

Boardinghouse owned by Mary Ellen Pleasant, San Francisco, 1888

Alternative title

Mary Ellen Pleasant, entrepreneur and abolitionist of African descent

Date Created

1888

Date

1888

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Mary Ellen Pleasant was a very successful 19th-century African American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist. She was a "conductor” on the Underground Railroad and helped John Brown plan and finance his slave uprising.
Washington Street looking east from Stockton, 1888. Boardinghouse owned by Mary Ellen Pleasant.

Caption

Courtesy of California State Library

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

photographs

Names

Pleasant, Mary Ellen, 1814-1904

Subject Geographic

San Francisco (Calif.)

Longitude

37.795074

Latitude

-122.407684

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Boarding houses