Author: Peter E. Palmquist
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804738835
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
Pioneer Photographers of the Far West
Author: Peter E. Palmquist
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804738835
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804738835
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
Forgotten Characters of Old San Francisco
Author: Robert E. Cowan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780781250184
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Bonded Leather binding
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780781250184
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Bonded Leather binding
The Forgotten Characters of Old San Francisco ...
Author: Robert Ernest Cowan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
San Francisco in the 1930s
Author: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520268806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Hastings House, 1940, as part of the American guide series. Title of rev. 2d ed. (1947) was: San Francisco, the bay and its cities.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520268806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Originally published: New York: Hastings House, 1940, as part of the American guide series. Title of rev. 2d ed. (1947) was: San Francisco, the bay and its cities.
Quotable San Francisco: Historic Moments in Memorable Words
Author: Terry Hamburg and Richard Hansen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467147206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
San Francisco surged from hamlet to boomtown overnight--the most meteoric "instant city" in history. From the Gold Rush to the Tech Rush, it's been the site of daring innovations, counterculture upheavals and social rebellions that shaped generations. Over the decades, residents have offered unique perspectives through journals, letters and newspapers, their words bringing another time to life. Discover San Francisco through the eyes of miners and "ladies of the night." Relive the experiences of robber barons and beatniks who flourished in a tiny corner of the world with fewer than one million souls. With commentary, background and extraordinary images, historians Terry Hamburg and Richard Hansen guide you through these colorful quotes, showing the city as it once was and what it aspired to be.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467147206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
San Francisco surged from hamlet to boomtown overnight--the most meteoric "instant city" in history. From the Gold Rush to the Tech Rush, it's been the site of daring innovations, counterculture upheavals and social rebellions that shaped generations. Over the decades, residents have offered unique perspectives through journals, letters and newspapers, their words bringing another time to life. Discover San Francisco through the eyes of miners and "ladies of the night." Relive the experiences of robber barons and beatniks who flourished in a tiny corner of the world with fewer than one million souls. With commentary, background and extraordinary images, historians Terry Hamburg and Richard Hansen guide you through these colorful quotes, showing the city as it once was and what it aspired to be.
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
Author: Kevin Starr
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199923256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199923256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
More San Francisco Memoirs, 1852-1899
Author: Malcolm E. Barker
Publisher: Great West Books
ISBN: 9780930235055
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Twenty-eight men and women recall their experiences as the raw, newly born city of sandhills and gambling saloons matures into a metropolis of elegant homes and bustling factories. These voices from the past tell us of Life during the Civil War. -- Living under vigilante justice. -- Globe-trotting tourists on visits to Barbary Coast dives and the opium dens of Chinatown.
Publisher: Great West Books
ISBN: 9780930235055
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Twenty-eight men and women recall their experiences as the raw, newly born city of sandhills and gambling saloons matures into a metropolis of elegant homes and bustling factories. These voices from the past tell us of Life during the Civil War. -- Living under vigilante justice. -- Globe-trotting tourists on visits to Barbary Coast dives and the opium dens of Chinatown.
Early Tales and Sketches, Volume 1
Author: Mark Twain
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052090575X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
This collection brings together for the first time more than 360 of Mark Twain's short works written between 1851, the year of his first extant sketch, and 1871, when he renounced his ties with the Buffalo Express and the Galaxy, resolving to "write but little for periodicals hereafter." In October 1871 Clemens and his family moved to Hartford, where they would live until 1891. No longer a journalist, he was about to complete his second full-length book, Roughing It. The literary apprenticeship that he had begun twenty years before in the print shops of Hannibal, and pursued in the newspaper offices of Virginia City, San Francisco, and Buffalo, had at last come to a close. The selections included in these volumes represent a generous sampling from Mark Twain's most imaginative journalism, a few set speeches, a few poems, and hundreds of tales and sketches recovered from more than fifty newspapers and journals, as well as two dozen unpublished items of various description—the main body of what can now be found of his early literary and subliterary work, though by no means everything written during those twenty years of experimentation. The selections are ordered chronologically and therefore provide a nearly continuous record of the author's literary activity from his earliest juvenilia up through the mature work that he published in the Galaxy, the Buffalo Express, and many other journals.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052090575X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
This collection brings together for the first time more than 360 of Mark Twain's short works written between 1851, the year of his first extant sketch, and 1871, when he renounced his ties with the Buffalo Express and the Galaxy, resolving to "write but little for periodicals hereafter." In October 1871 Clemens and his family moved to Hartford, where they would live until 1891. No longer a journalist, he was about to complete his second full-length book, Roughing It. The literary apprenticeship that he had begun twenty years before in the print shops of Hannibal, and pursued in the newspaper offices of Virginia City, San Francisco, and Buffalo, had at last come to a close. The selections included in these volumes represent a generous sampling from Mark Twain's most imaginative journalism, a few set speeches, a few poems, and hundreds of tales and sketches recovered from more than fifty newspapers and journals, as well as two dozen unpublished items of various description—the main body of what can now be found of his early literary and subliterary work, though by no means everything written during those twenty years of experimentation. The selections are ordered chronologically and therefore provide a nearly continuous record of the author's literary activity from his earliest juvenilia up through the mature work that he published in the Galaxy, the Buffalo Express, and many other journals.
A Treasury of American-Jewish Folklore
Author: Steve Koppman
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN: 1461731534
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
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Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN: 1461731534
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
To find more information on Rowman & Littlefield titles, please visit www.rlpgbooks.com.
Encyclopedia of California
Author: Nancy Capace
Publisher: North American Book Dist LLC
ISBN: 040309318X
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 839
Book Description
Publisher: North American Book Dist LLC
ISBN: 040309318X
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 839
Book Description