Author: Mary Floyd Williams
Publisher: Berkeldy : University of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: Peter E. Palmquist
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804738835
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 716

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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.

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Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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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).

Author: Philip J. Ethington
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520230019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483

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A new look at how the issues of concern in the public sphere were influenced by journalism and political organizing in American cities in the second half of the 19th century.

Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Author: John Augustus Sutter
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134932
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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John A. Sutter (1803-1880) could have become one of the richest men in California when gold was found on his property. Instead he lost his vast land holdings on the Sacramento and Feather Rivers and eventually left California penniless. Sutter always claimed to be the victim of charlatans, but he bore considerable responsibility for his downfall. He had amassed huge debts before the gold discovery and added even more afterward. In the rough dealings of frontier capitalism in gold rush California, Sutter was easy prey. Soon after the gold discovery, Sutter’s eldest son, John Jr., (1826-1897) arrived, but soon moved south to Mexico. Hoping to obtain compensation for the land that he and his father had lost, John, Jr., returned to California in 1855 to give his lawyer a thorough statement cataloging how both Sutters were swindled. This extensive document describes the dirty deals of the first great gold rush in the western United States. Sutter’s statement has not been available for sixty years. Editor Allan R. Ottley reproduced and annotated this statement, providing a full biographical context and offering an appendix, bibliography, and index. Albert L. Hurtado’s introduction updates the book, originally published in 1942.

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ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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Author: Yong Chen
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804745505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Founded during the Gold Rush years, the Chinese community of San Francisco became the largest and most vibrant Chinatown in America. This is a detailed social and cultural history of the Chinese in San Francisco.

Author: Amy K. DeFalco Lippert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190268972
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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Consuming Identities restores the California gold rush to its rightful place as the first pivotal chapter in the American history of photography, and uncovers nineteenth-century San Francisco's position in the vanguard of modern visual culture.

Author: Luther Samuel Livingston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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