On the morning of April 11, 1853, the steamboat Jenny Lind departed Alviso on its eight-hour run to San Francisco, bearing between 100 and 130 passengers destined for tragedy.

Is Jenny Lind Hall at 711 S. Jefferson Ave. named after the 19th-century opera singer known as the "Swedish Nightingale"? ... When she arrived via steamship on Sept. 1, ...

Nicknamed the ‘Swedish Nightingale’, Jenny Lind was a soprano whose voice was admired by Chopin, Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann, no less! She may have found 21st-century fame from the film The ...

In 1850, Jenny Lind beat them ten times over–even though she was a virtual unknown in America in 1849. Lind, a Swedish opera singer, made her American debut in New York on this day in 1850.