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Author : Charles Keeler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book San Francisco and Thereabout written by Charles Keeler and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Augustus Keeler
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Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book San Francisco and Thereabout written by Charles Augustus Keeler and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Berglund
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Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Making San Francisco American written by Barbara Berglund and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the 19th-century transformation in San Francisco--from Gold Rush to earthquake--to show how the city's diverse residents created a modern American city through everyday "cultural frontiers," such as restaurants, hotels, and annual fairs and expositions, among others.
Author : R. S. Masters
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Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book An Historical Review of the San Francisco Exchange written by R. S. Masters and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Starr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199923256
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-12-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : John King
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324020334
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities written by John King and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco’s iconic Ferry Building. Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco’s portal to the world—the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films and World’s Fair postcards, nothing said “San Francisco” more than its soaring clocktower. But as acclaimed architectural critic John King recounts in Portal, the rise of the automobile and double-deck freeways severed the city from its beloved structure and its waterfront—a connection that required generations to restore. King’s narrative spans the rise and fall and rebirth of the Ferry Building. Rich with feats of engineering and civic imagination, his story introduces colorful figures who fought to preserve the Ferry Building’s character (and the city’s soul)—from architect Arthur Page Brown and legendary columnist Herb Caen to poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Senator Dianne Feinstein. In King’s hands, the saga of the Ferry Building is a microcosm of a larger evolution along the waterfronts of cities everywhere. Portal traces the damage inflicted on historic neighborhoods and working dockyards by cars, highways, and top-down planning and “urban renewal.” But when an earthquake destroyed the Embarcadero Freeway, city residents seized the chance to reclaim their connection to the bay. Transporting readers across 125 years of history, this tour de force explores the tensions impacting urban infrastructure and public spaces, among them tourism, deindustrialization, development, and globalization. Portal culminates with a rich portrait of San Francisco’s vibrant esplanade today, visited by millions, even as sea level rise and earthquakes threaten a landmark that remains as vital as ever. A book for city lovers and visitors, architecture fans and pedestrians, Portal is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of San Francisco and the future of American cities.
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Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Chamber of Commerce Handbook for San Francisco written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book California Today, San Francisco, Its Metropolis written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leigh Hadley Irvine
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Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A History of the New California, Its Resources and People written by Leigh Hadley Irvine and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biographies of prominent and influential people in California in the late 19th and early 20th century. With many portraits.
Author : Melanie Louise Simo
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813921594
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Forest and Garden written by Melanie Louise Simo and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How wild and managed or artificially arranged environments coexist has long been a matter of intense debate among foresters and landscape professionals.
Author : Catherine Cocks
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520926493
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Doing the Town written by Catherine Cocks and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-09-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourists and travelers in the early nineteenth century saw American cities as ugly spaces, lacking the art and history that attracted thousands to the great cities of Europe. By the turn of the century, however, city touring became popular in the United States, and the era saw the rise of elegant hotels, packaged tours, and train travel to cities for vacations that would entertain and edify. This fascinating cultural history, studded with vivid details bringing the experience of Victorian-era travel alive, explores the beginnings of urban tourism, and sets the phenomenon within a larger cultural transformation that encompassed fundamental changes in urban life and national identity. Focusing mainly on New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, Catherine Cocks describes what it was like to ride on Pullman cars, stay in the grand hotels, and take in the sights of the cities. Her evocative narrative draws on innovative readings of sources such as guidebooks, travel accounts, tourist magazines, and the journalism of the era. Exploring the full cultural context in which city touring became popular, Cocks ties together many themes in urban and cultural history for the first time, such as the relationships among class, gender, leisure, and the uses and perceptions of urban space. Offering especially lively reading, Doing the Town provides a memorable journey into the experience of the new urban tourist at the same time as it makes a sophisticated contribution to our understanding of the urban and cultural development of the United States.
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Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
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Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on the Judiciary written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 966 pages
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Download or read book The Americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bancroft Library
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Total Pages : 608 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books written by Bancroft Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew J. Davenport
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250279283
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Longest Minute written by Matthew J. Davenport and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death and trapped many alive. Fires ignited and blazed through dry wooden ruins and grew into a firestorm. For the next three days, flames devoured collapsed ruins, killed trapped survivors, and nearly destroyed what was then the largest city in the American West. Meticulously researched and gracefully written, The Longest Minute is both a harrowing chronicle of devastation and the portrait of a city’s resilience in the burning aftermath of greed and folly. Drawing on the letters and diaries and unpublished memoirs of survivors and previously unearthed archival records, Matthew Davenport combines history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history.
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Total Pages : 1022 pages
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Download or read book Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
