Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520906071
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Here is young Sam Clemens—in the world, getting famous, making love—in 155 magnificently edited letters that trace his remarkable self-transformation from a footloose, irreverent West Coast journalist to a popular lecturer and author of The Jumping Frog, soon to be a national and international celebrity. And on the move he was—from San Francisco to New York, to St. Louis, and then to Paris, Naples, Rome, Athens, Constantinople, Yalta, and the Holy Land; back to New York and on to Washington; back to San Francisco and Virginia City; and on to lecturing in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York. Resplendent with wit, love of life, ambition, and literary craft, this new volume in the wonderful Bancroft Library edition of Mark Twain's Letters will delight and inform both scholars and general readers. This volume has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mark Twain Foundation, Jane Newhall, and The Friends of The Bancroft Library.
The San Francisco Directory for the Year
Author: Henry G. LangleyPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781378260975
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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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.
Books Relating to California, Oregon, the West Coast and Hawaii
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
City Directories of the United States, 1860-1901
Author: Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
The guide provides Research Publications' fiche and reel numbers, with their contents, for City directories of the United States in microform; segment 1 (pre 1860), segment 2 (1861-1881) and segment 3 (1882-1901).
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Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Archy Lee's Struggle for Freedom
Author: Brian McGintyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493045350
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In San Francisco, CA, in 1858, a young African American man was freed from the claims of a white man who sought to return him to slavery in Mississippi. This was one year after the Supreme Court’s notorious Dred Scott decision and during the California Gold Rush, which saw the population of the state rise from 7,000 to more than 60,000 in a few short years. Archy Lee was the name of the man who, with the aid of anti-slavery lawyers and determined opponents of human bondage, had just won his freedom from the claims of Charles Stovall. With the aid of pro-slavery lawyers and equally determined supporters, Stovall had sought to capture him and carry him back to a far-away slave plantation. Yet the book is not solely about Archy Lee. It is also about the travel routes that the gold-seekers followed to California in the 1850s, some by land over the Great Plains, some by sea around Cape Horn, yet others by sailing from the east coast of North America to the isthmus of Panama, where they crossed over the land there by train and continued on by sea to San Francisco. It is about the efforts of the racially motivated lawmakers to suppress the rights of all of California’s residents except whites, and to subject people of African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American descent to second-, third-, or even fourth-class citizenship. It is about the residents of the state—including many whites—who fought back against those efforts, seeking to ameliorate or repeal the discriminatory laws and introduce a measure of fairness and justice into California’s civil life. It is about the lawyers and judges who participated in Archy Lee’s legal struggles in 1858, some supporting his claims for freedom while others ferociously opposed them and, in the process, elevated their own political and professional profiles.
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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1154
Book Description
The San Francisco Directory for the Year 1858
Author: Henry G. LangleyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666251695
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Excerpt from The San Francisco Directory for the Year 1858: Embracing a General Directory of Citizens, a Business Directory, and an Appendix, Containing the Organization of the Different Branches of the Municipal Government, and the Laws Regulating the Same; Together With an Account of the Different Associations The undersigned has established in the City of San Francisco 3 bank, under the above name, style and title. The object is to furnish a safe plac of deposit to all classes of the community, especially to farmers, miners and mechanics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.