Author: Library of Congress. Geography and Map DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Geography and Map Division
Author: Library of Congress. Geography and Map DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
From Cows to Concrete
Author: Rachel SurlsPublisher: Angel City Press
ISBN: 9781626400313
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What? Los Angeles was the original wine country of California, leading the state's wine production for more than a century? Los Angeles County was the agricultural center of North America until the 1950s? And where today's freeways soar, cows calmly chewed their cud? How could that be? Los Angeles, the capital of asphalt and Klieg lights, was once a paradise filled with grapevines and bovines, so abundant with Nature's gifts that no one could imagine a more pastoral place? Los Angeles County was the center of an agricultural empire. Today, it is the nation's most populous urban metropolis. What happened? Where did the green go? As Americans connect with gardens, farmers markets, and urban farms, most are unaware that each of these activities have deep roots in Los Angeles, and that the healthy food they savor literally had its roots in L.A. This book is for all who treasure the country's agrarian history.
Fire Insurance Maps
Author: Diane L. OswaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
"Fire insurance maps are the footprints of America's Industrial Revolution, ... relics that bear witness to the mortality of businesses, industries and cities"--Cover.
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Publisher: Jon Orwant
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2204
Book Description
Shades of L.A.
Author: Carolyn Kozo ColePublisher:
ISBN: 9781565843134
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Shades of L.A., a collection of more than one hundred photographs selected from the family albums of eight different communities, makes available, for the first time, rare images of family life in Southern California. Taken not by outsiders reporting to the world, but by families recording their own history, these photographs are important cultural documents of the twentieth century. Together with a timeline of L.A.'s ethnic history, they give a compelling portrait of life in one of America's most diverse cities from the 1880s to the 1960s.
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2666
Book Description
Maps and Atlases
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Home Away From Home
Author: Jeronima EcheverriaPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 0874173914
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
In this meticulously researched study of Basque boardinghouses in the United States, Jeronima Echeverria offers a compelling history of the institution that most deeply shaped Basque immigrant life and served as the center of Basque communities throughout the West. She weaves into her narrative the stories of the boarding house owners and operators and the ways they made their establishments a home away from home for their fellow compatriots, as well as the stories of the young Basques who left the security of their beloved homeland to find work in the United States.
