RECENT RESEARCH — A newly unearthed photograph showing the north side of the 600 block of Commercial Street, San Francisco, in the aftermath of the earthquake and fires of 1906 reveals, for the first time, visual evidence of the fate of the building that housed the Eureka Lodgings, where Emperor Norton lived from 1864–65 until his death in 1880. Our analysis of the photo sharpens the focus on the identities and locations of the buildings along this stretch — and exactly what each building suffered in 1906. Includes our highly researched new infographic that can be used as a tool for understanding the history of this location.

The Emperor Norton Trust

TO HONOR THE LIFE + ADVANCE THE LEGACY OF JOSHUA ABRAHAM NORTON

RESEARCH • EDUCATION • ADVOCACY

PROJECTS :: Reprints of Classic Biographies of Emperor Norton

Contact: Founder John Lumea

The two classic book-length biographies of Emperor Norton are William Drury's Norton I: Emperor of the United States (Dodd, Mead, 1986) and Allen Stanley Lane's Emperor Norton: The Mad Monarch of America (The Caxton Printers, 1939).

Unfortunately, both of these titles are long out of print. And the few clean copies that do become available are cloth first editions that now are priced anywhere from $50 to $350, putting them out of reach of all but the most dedicated aficionados and collectors.

The Emperor Norton Trust seeks to publish these and possibly other early out-of-print volumes on Emperor Norton as high-quality, affordable paper reprints.

To learn more, and to participate in this project, please contact founder John Lumea.

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