Author: Robin Chapman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467151475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Santa Clara Valley, with its rich soil and sunny weather, has been home to great diversity and great innovation long before it became known as Silicon Valley. California's first immigrants from Mexico were astonished by its beauty. "The land is moist and the hills have an abundance of rosemary and herbs, sunflowers in bloom, vines as plentiful as a vineyard," wrote one. From the movie stars of Hollywood's golden era who once came to play to billionaires who grew apricots for pleasure, the valley has hosted orchards, electric railroads, Army camps and even a love-struck poet. Join author and historian Robin Chapman as she uncovers the true tales of this ever-changing place.
Valley of Heart's Delight, The: True Tales from Around the Bay
Author: Robin Chapman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467151475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Santa Clara Valley, with its rich soil and sunny weather, has been home to great diversity and great innovation long before it became known as Silicon Valley. California's first immigrants from Mexico were astonished by its beauty. "The land is moist and the hills have an abundance of rosemary and herbs, sunflowers in bloom, vines as plentiful as a vineyard," wrote one. From the movie stars of Hollywood's golden era who once came to play to billionaires who grew apricots for pleasure, the valley has hosted orchards, electric railroads, Army camps and even a love-struck poet. Join author and historian Robin Chapman as she uncovers the true tales of this ever-changing place.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467151475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Santa Clara Valley, with its rich soil and sunny weather, has been home to great diversity and great innovation long before it became known as Silicon Valley. California's first immigrants from Mexico were astonished by its beauty. "The land is moist and the hills have an abundance of rosemary and herbs, sunflowers in bloom, vines as plentiful as a vineyard," wrote one. From the movie stars of Hollywood's golden era who once came to play to billionaires who grew apricots for pleasure, the valley has hosted orchards, electric railroads, Army camps and even a love-struck poet. Join author and historian Robin Chapman as she uncovers the true tales of this ever-changing place.
The Grizzly Bear
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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St. Nicholas
Author: Mary Mapes Dodge
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark
Author: Harris Newmark
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465581464
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1085
Book Description
Harris Newmark (1834-1916), son of a modest Prussian Jewish merchant, sailed to America in 1853 to join his older brother in Los Angeles. He made a fortune in real estate, the wholesale grocery business, and hides and wools, becoming a leader in the local Jewish community and the city at large. Sixty years in Southern California (1916) begins with his description of Los Angeles as he found it; judges and lawyers, merchants and shops, churches and other landmarks. In the chapters that follow, Newmark organizes his materials chronologically and outlines his various mercantile partnerships and traces changing patterns of social life in Los Angeles, political factions, railroad construction in southern California, crime and vigilantism, the Chinese Massacre of 1871, and real estate speculations. In a more personal vein, he chronicles Jewish family life and philantropy.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465581464
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1085
Book Description
Harris Newmark (1834-1916), son of a modest Prussian Jewish merchant, sailed to America in 1853 to join his older brother in Los Angeles. He made a fortune in real estate, the wholesale grocery business, and hides and wools, becoming a leader in the local Jewish community and the city at large. Sixty years in Southern California (1916) begins with his description of Los Angeles as he found it; judges and lawyers, merchants and shops, churches and other landmarks. In the chapters that follow, Newmark organizes his materials chronologically and outlines his various mercantile partnerships and traces changing patterns of social life in Los Angeles, political factions, railroad construction in southern California, crime and vigilantism, the Chinese Massacre of 1871, and real estate speculations. In a more personal vein, he chronicles Jewish family life and philantropy.
In and Out of the Old Missions of California
Author: George Wharton James
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913
Author: Harris Newmark
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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California Missions and Landmarks
Author: Mrs. A. S. C. Forbes
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Contains history of California; history and descriptions of the missions, non-church landmarks and buildings. Describes El Camino Real Association of California, which sought to memorialize the road with Mission Bell guideposts, and political history and people.
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Contains history of California; history and descriptions of the missions, non-church landmarks and buildings. Describes El Camino Real Association of California, which sought to memorialize the road with Mission Bell guideposts, and political history and people.
California Missions and Landmarks and how to Get There; a Practical Guide, Together with a Historical Sketch of the Missions and Landmarks, the Pious Fund and El Camino Real
Author: Mrs. A. S. C. Forbes
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Hobbies
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Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Category : Collectors and collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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