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Download or read book LONG WHARF A STORY OF SAN FRANCISCO written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard Pease
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Long Wharf written by Howard Pease and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodore Augustus Barry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Men and Memories of San Francisco, in the "spring of '50." written by Theodore Augustus Barry and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Augustus Barry (1825-1881) and Benjamin Ada Patten (1825-1877) established their credentials as California pioneers by arriving in their adopted state before January 1, 1850. Men and memories of San Francisco (1873) gives later arrivals a detailed picture of the city as it existed a few months before California statehood. They describe the streets and the residences and business that lined each thoroughfare and alley as well as the men and women who owned those homes, boarding-houses, hotels, restaurants, saloons, stores, offices, and shops. They also chronicle the fire of May 1851 which destroyed so many of the structures they describe. While they focus on the city as it was in early 1850, their sketches of its residents extend further, often forming capsule biographies of their subjects.
Author : John Haskell Kemble
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book San Francisco Bay written by John Haskell Kemble and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Eugene Banks
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of the San Francisco Disaster and Mount Vesuvius Horror written by Charles Eugene Banks and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and authentic account of the terrible calamity that befell the city of the Golden Gate, stricken by earthquake and devasted by fire. Described and penned by eye-witnesses and those who worked to relieve the suffering. A vivid account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and other great historical catastrophes which have destroyed thousands of lives and laid whole countries in ruin.
Author : Frank Soulé
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Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Annals of San Francisco; Containing a Summary of the History of ... California and a Complete History of Its Great City: to which are Added, Biographical Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens. By Frank Soulé, John H. Gihon, and James Nisbet. Illustrated with 150 Engravings written by Frank Soulé and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cary McClelland
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608808
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley written by Cary McClelland and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate, eye-opening portrait of San Francisco transformed by the tech boom. San Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, in recent decades the Bay Area has been reshaped by Silicon Valley, the engine of the new American economy. The richer the region gets, the more unequal and less diverse it becomes, and cracks in the city’s facade—rapid gentrification, an epidemic of evictions, rising crime, atrophied public institutions—have started to show. Inspired by Studs Terkel’s classic works of oral history, writer and filmmaker Cary McClelland spent several years interviewing people at the epicenter of the recent change, from venture capitalists and coders to politicians and protesters, from native sons and daughters to the city’s newest arrivals. The crisp and vivid stories of Silicon City’s diverse cast capture San Francisco as never before. The book opens with a longtime tour guide recounting the history of the original Gold Rush and observing how little the people of his city pay attention to its history; it ends on Fisherman’s Wharf, with the proprietor of an arcade game museum reminding us that even today’s technology will become relics of the past. In between we hear from people who have passed through Apple, Google, eBay, Intel, and the other big tech companies of our time. And we meet those who are experiencing the changes at the grassroots level: a homeless advocate in Haight-Ashbury, an Oakland rapper, a pawnbroker in the Mission, a man who helped dismantle and rebuild the Bay Bridge, and a woman who runs a tattoo parlor in the Castro. Silicon City masterfully weaves together a candid conversation across a divided community to create a dynamic portrait of a beloved city—and a cautionary tale for the entire country.
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Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David M. Fine
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826316219
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book San Francisco in Fiction written by David M. Fine and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the beginning there was the bay, the land, the forty-three hills, the coastline down to Monterey, the strip of mountains, the quiet valley behind, the vast ocean, the hidden faults." And with the landscape came the stories, as Paul Skenazy and David Fine note in their introduction to this new anthology of essays. San Francisco is as much a place in the mind as on the map; if the terrain set the stage for the stories, the stories have helped remake our perceptions of the space. These twelve essays explore the relationship between place and prose--between San Francisco the city and San Francisco the territory of fiction. From the Gold Rush times of Mark Twain and Bret Harte, through the Prohibition Era of Dashiell Hammett to the Beat days of Jack Kerouac and the present works of writers like Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, and Arturo Islas, San Francisco has been blessed with great writers who have given life to the land in their fiction. These essays engage the history and geography, ethnic, gender, and class conflicts, and stylistic range of the fiction. They demonstrate how authors as various as Jack London, Gertrude Atherton, Frank Norris, William Saroyan, James D. Houston, Joan Didion, and Wallace Stegner have re-created and revised our understanding of this region.
Author : Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609381920
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Making Americans written by Gary D. Schmidt and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Americans is a study of a time when the authors and illustrators of children's books consciously set their eyes on national and international sights, with the hope of bringing the next generation into a full sense of citizenship. Schmidt examines the literature for young people published during a momentous period in our nation's past, and documents in detail its role as an instrument of nation-building and social reform. A thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of children's books as cultural transmitters and transformers.
Author : Bailey Millard
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Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the San Francisco Bay Region written by Bailey Millard and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ariel Rubissow Okamoto
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520268253
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Natural History of San Francisco Bay written by Ariel Rubissow Okamoto and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration into the San Francisco Bay covers an array of topics including fish and wildlife populations, ocean and climate cycles, endangered and invasive species, and the path from industrialization to environmental restoration.
Author : Bernard Averbuch
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Total Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book "Crab is King" written by Bernard Averbuch and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Building and Engineering News written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John S. Hittell
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849650634
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book A History of the City of San Francisco written by John S. Hittell and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scenes which the author tries to depict for the reader show a multitude of figures and many phases of passion. A host of adventurers flocking from the centers of civilization on the shores of the Atlantic, half across the world, to a remote corner on the coast of what was then the semi-barbarous Pacific, coming to make a brief stay in the rude search for gold, brought a high culture with them, and suddenly lifted their new home to an equal place among the most enlightened communities. The early American settlers in California, instead of being, as many persons at a distance supposed they would be, the mere offscourings of a low rabble, were, in a large proportion, men of knowledge and capacity; and if generally inexperienced in high station and serious responsibility, yet not incompetent for them. This book gives an account of them and their efforts to make San Francisco the town it is today.
Author : John Philip Young
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849650618
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book San Francisco - A History of the Pacific Coast Metropolis, Vol. 1 written by John Philip Young and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the period of active life of San Francisco has been a short one, as historical periods go, it has been crowded with incident. Enough of the latter could be found to present a vivid picture of the career of the metropolis of the Pacific coast, but in this work something more has been attempted than a mere recital of occurrences. It has been the purpose of the author to trace the causes of the growth of the City, and to describe the manifold activities of its citizens. This is volume one out of two of one of the most thrilling and detailed histories of San Francisco.
Author : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615355006
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)
Download or read book Britannica Book of the Year 2011 written by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Britannica Book fo the Year 2011 provides a valuable viewpoint on the people and events that shaped the year. In addition to keeping the Encyclopaedia Britannica updated, it serves as a great reference source for the latest news on the ever-changing populations, governments, and economies throughout the world.
