Author: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Los Angeles County, Some Facts and Figures, 1925
Author: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Los Angeles County, Some Facts and Figures, 1926
Author: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2236
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 22 : Nos. 1-131 (Issued April, 1925 - April, 1926)
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2236
Book Description
Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 22 : Nos. 1-131 (Issued April, 1925 - April, 1926)
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2200
Book Description
Material Dreams
Author: Kevin Starr
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019507260X
Category : California, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
In Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles. Although he treats readers to intriguing side trips to Santa Barbara and Pasadena, Starr focuses here mainly on Los Angeles, revealing how this major city arose almost defiantly on a site lacking many of the advantages required for urban development, creating itself out of sheer will, the Great Gatsby of American cities. He describes how William Ellsworth Smyth, the Peter the Hermit of the Irrigation Crusade, propounded the importance of water in Southern California's future, and how such figures as the self-educated, Irish engineer William Mulholland (who built the main aquaducts to Los Angeles) and George Chaffey (who diverted the Colorado River, transforming desert into the lush Imperial Valley) brought life-supporting water to the arid South. He examines the discovery of oil ("Yes it's oil, oil, oil / that makes LA boil," went the official drinking song of the Uplifters Club), the boosters and land developers, the evangelists (such as Bob Shuler, the Methodist Savanarola of Los Angeles, and Aimee Semple McPherson), and countless other colorful figures of the period. There are also fascinating sections on the city's architecture (such as the remarkably innovative Bradbury Building and its eccentric, neophyte designer, George Wyman), the impact of the automobile on city planning, the great antiquarian book collections, the Hollywood film community, and much more. By the end of the decade, Los Angeles had tripled in population and become the fifth largest city in the nation. In Material Dreams, Kevin Starr captures this explosive growth in a narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019507260X
Category : California, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
In Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history, the 1920s, when some two million Americans migrated to California, the vast majority settling in or around Los Angeles. Although he treats readers to intriguing side trips to Santa Barbara and Pasadena, Starr focuses here mainly on Los Angeles, revealing how this major city arose almost defiantly on a site lacking many of the advantages required for urban development, creating itself out of sheer will, the Great Gatsby of American cities. He describes how William Ellsworth Smyth, the Peter the Hermit of the Irrigation Crusade, propounded the importance of water in Southern California's future, and how such figures as the self-educated, Irish engineer William Mulholland (who built the main aquaducts to Los Angeles) and George Chaffey (who diverted the Colorado River, transforming desert into the lush Imperial Valley) brought life-supporting water to the arid South. He examines the discovery of oil ("Yes it's oil, oil, oil / that makes LA boil," went the official drinking song of the Uplifters Club), the boosters and land developers, the evangelists (such as Bob Shuler, the Methodist Savanarola of Los Angeles, and Aimee Semple McPherson), and countless other colorful figures of the period. There are also fascinating sections on the city's architecture (such as the remarkably innovative Bradbury Building and its eccentric, neophyte designer, George Wyman), the impact of the automobile on city planning, the great antiquarian book collections, the Hollywood film community, and much more. By the end of the decade, Los Angeles had tripled in population and become the fifth largest city in the nation. In Material Dreams, Kevin Starr captures this explosive growth in a narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose.
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Cumulative Book Index
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
The Delineator
Author:
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Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Time
Author: Briton Hadden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
Reels for 1973- include Time index, 1973-
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
Reels for 1973- include Time index, 1973-