Timeship.com was originally conceived in 1996, when the World
Wide Web was just six years old. My initial idea was to use the site
to promote my writing projects; and to provide easy access to a wide
variety of history-related material to anyone who was interested.
When I co-founded the Gold Rush History Alliance (GRHA) in 1997, timeship
became the primary outlet for promoting the GRHA and all-things
related to the California Gold Rush. By the turn of the 21st
Century, timeship's splash page sported an animated three-masted
sailing ship that cruised onto the page and settled under the
masthead. It wasn't Flash® (then in its infancy), and I wasn't the
only one using animated web elements at that time, but the concept
was impressive enough to win me a Dottie Award in Sacramento in
2001. As GRHA faded into history and my writing career took off,
timeship.com was put on the back burner – although I diligently
retained the domain and always kept the link active. Conceptually,
today’s timeship is what I intended it to be over a decade ago – a
place to share history-related information based on historical
research into primary source material. And, of course, there is,
necessarily, a bit of self-promotion as well. I hope you will enjoy
exploring timeship’s many pages and myriad of subjects. And, I
welcome your comments and suggestions.
O. Henry Mace, writer/author/historian/photographer
Above: 1/16th plate ruby glass ambrotype of O. Henry
Mace, taken by collodion artist and long-time friend,
William Dunniway.
