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Category : Alameda (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1448
Book Description
Husted's Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley City Directory
Directory Bulletin
Author: Catalog of Printed Books
Author: Bancroft LibraryPublisher: Boston : G.K. Hall
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
Author: Pioneer Photographers of the Far West
Author: Peter E. PalmquistPublisher: 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.
Catalogue of the California State Library
Author: California State LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara County
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Category : Monterey County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Townsend Family in the Emerging American West, 1856-1926
Author: Susan E. JamesPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040253644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book examines the life of the Townsend family and the events that occurred during the period of 1856–1926 that shaped an expanding American West. Bryant and Julia (Riley) Townsend and their three children were born into an age of rapid change and competing cultures. Witnesses to a century of events that shaped a nation, their lives define the complexities and challenges of incomers who arrived in an expanding American West. From the Gold Rush to the California oil boom, from slavery to female suffrage, from Indian Wars to World Wars, the Townsends lived through violent upheavals, outlasting cities, societal beliefs and entire ways of life. Married in a mining camp in Nevada and relocating frequently, the couple embraced the momentary riches, shattering losses and personal disasters faced by a vast number of immigrants, foreign and domestic, striving to survive in an often-hostile landscape. Their lives and those of their three children, Minnie Edith, Bryant and Persia, form the architecture supporting an examination of multiple facets of the Western experience and are exemplars of the different populations that merged to form the American identity. This volume will be of value to students and scholars interested in American history, social and cultural history and modern history.
San Jose City Directory Including Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey Counties
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Category : Monterey County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley
Author: Richard SchwartzPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The seventeen stories Schwartz tells here remond us of an often-overlooked reality: that the face of humanity of the past is the same as our own. Although the world of these colorful characters inhabit is in so many ways different from ours, their spirit rings true to our modern sensibilities, Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cuttthroats of Old Berkeley shows how deeply we share the emotions and motivations of our ancestors...whetehr she's a Native American girl trapped as a Berkeley domestic, a Civil War veteran gossiping and reminiscing his way down Shattuck Avenue in a horse-drawn wagon, or an African American dairyman whose keen observations and inventive skill bring him riches in a community that embraced him as a town founder. Schwartz brings forth these long-forgotten people from their resting place, and does so with such skill as a storyteller that we can, for a time, straddle two worlds and sense their profound continuity.