Capital Intentions: Female Proprietors in San Francisco, 1850-1920

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction  Chapter . Female Proprietors and the Businesses They Started  Chapter . Why San Francisco Women Started Businesses  Chapter . How Women Started Businesses  Chapter . What It Took to Draw Customers  Chapter . Women as Financial Managers  Chapter . When Women Went Out of Business  Conclusion  Appendix : Note on Sources  Appendix : Figures and Tables  Figure A. Percentage of All Gainfully Occupied Women in the Hospitality Industry  Figure A. Number of San Francisco Female Proprietors in the Hospitality Industry  Table A. Female Proprietors in San Francisco as a Percentage of All Gainfully Occupied Women  Table A. San Francisco Male and Female Populations  Table A. Women in the San Francisco Directory Employed in Hospitality  Table A. Retail Dealers in San Francisco in   Table A. Race and Nativity of Female Proprietors and of Total San Francisco Female Population,   Table A. San Francisco Female Proprietors in Types of Businesses as Percentage of All Proprietors from Racial/Ethnic Background,   Table A. San Francisco Female Proprietors in Types of Businesses as Percentage of All Proprietors in Each Category,   Table A. San Francisco Foreign-Born White Female Proprietors by Origin and Type of Business,   Table A. Race and Nativity of Male Proprietors and of Total San Francisco Male Population,   Table A. San Francisco Male Proprietors in Types of Businesses as Percentage of All Proprietors in Each Category,   Table A. San Francisco Foreign-Born White Male Proprietors by Origin and Type of Business,   Table A. Percentage of Women’s Businesses Located on Kearny, Montgomery, Second, Third, and Market Streets  Table A. Business Failure among San Francisco Female Proprietors  Notes  Selected Bibliography  Index  ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAP illustrations Mrs. Stites Miller’s trade card  Lunch counter on Mission Street  The Nucleus House  The Emporium  Male workers who flocked to San Francisco after the  earthquake and fire   notice that a married woman intended to conduct business in her own name  Credit statement for a grocery owner who secured a loan from a female acquaintance with a chattel mortgage  Mrs. Mish’s trade card  Mrs. Lester & Crawford’s trade card  I. Magnin’s millinery department  Receipt produced as evidence in the bankruptcy case of a confectionery store owner  Ladies’ hairdresser advertisement  Damage from the  earthquake  map Downtown San Francisco, ca.   This page intentionally left blank ...