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Book The Illustrated History of San Mateo County

Download or read book The Illustrated History of San Mateo County written by Moore & De Pue and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illustrated History of San Mateo County  California  1878

Download or read book Illustrated History of San Mateo County California 1878 written by Moore & De Pue, publishers and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the California State Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the California State Library written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book San Francisco Lithographer

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  • Author : Robert J. Chandler
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2014-01-29
  • ISBN : 0806145250
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book San Francisco Lithographer written by Robert J. Chandler and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes, he also produced and published maps, charts, and business documents, and he illustrated books, sheet music, advertisements, and labels for cans and other packaging. This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown’s lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist. Chandler’s contextualization of Brown’s career goes beyond the issue of race. Showing how Brown survived and flourished as a businessman, Chandler offers unique insight into the growth of printing and publishing in California and the West. He examines the rise of lithography, its commercial and cultural importance, and the competition among lithographic companies. He also analyzes Brown’s work and style, comparing it to the products of rival firms. Brown was not respected as a fine artist until after his death. Collectors of western art and Americana now recognize the importance of Californiana and of Brown’s work, some of which depicts Portland and the Pacific Northwest, and they will find Chandler’s checklist, descriptions, and reproductions of Brown’s ephemera—including billheads and maps—as uniquely valuable as Chandler’s contribution to the cultural and commercial history of California. In an afterword, historian Shirley Ann Wilson Moore discusses the circumstances and significance of passing in nineteenth-century America.

Book Supplementary Catalogue of the California State Library  General Department

Download or read book Supplementary Catalogue of the California State Library General Department written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book HIST SPOTS OLD EDN

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  • Author : Hero Eugene Rensch
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN : 9780804700795
  • Pages : 686 pages

Download or read book HIST SPOTS OLD EDN written by Hero Eugene Rensch and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Now in a one-volume revised edition, this encyclopedia of California historical information remains an ideally practical reference to the state."--From the dust-jacket front flap.

Book History of San Mateo County  California

Download or read book History of San Mateo County California written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supplementary Catalogue

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  • Author : California State Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1898
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 998 pages

Download or read book Supplementary Catalogue written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ranger Ideal Volume 1

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  • Author : Darren L. Ivey
  • Publisher : University of North Texas Press
  • Release : 2017-10-15
  • ISBN : 1574417010
  • Pages : 665 pages

Download or read book The Ranger Ideal Volume 1 written by Darren L. Ivey and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in Waco in 1968, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum honors the iconic Texas Rangers, a service which has existed, in one form or another, since 1823. They have become legendary symbols of Texas and the American West. Thirty-one Rangers, with lives spanning more than two centuries, have been enshrined in the Hall of Fame. In The Ranger Ideal Volume 1: Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1823-1861, Darren L. Ivey presents capsule biographies of the seven inductees who served Texas before the Civil War. He begins with Stephen F. Austin, “the Father of Texas,” who laid the foundations of the Ranger service, and then covers John C. Hays, Ben McCulloch, Samuel H. Walker, William A. A. “Bigfoot” Wallace, John S. Ford, and Lawrence Sul Ross. Using primary records and reliable secondary sources, and rejecting apocryphal tales, The Ranger Ideal presents the true stories of these intrepid men who fought to tame a land with gallantry, grit, and guns. This Volume 1 is the first of a planned three-volume series covering all of the Texas Rangers inducted in the Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas.

Book New Arrivals in American Local History and Genealogy  Quarterly List

Download or read book New Arrivals in American Local History and Genealogy Quarterly List written by Sutro Library and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California Place Names

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  • Author : Erwin G. Gudde
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 0520266196
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book California Place Names written by Erwin G. Gudde and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anniversary edition concentrates on the origins of the names currently used for the cities, towns, settlements, mountains, and streams of California, with engrossing accounts of the history of their usage. The dictionary includes a glossary and a bibliography.

Book Widener Library Shelflist  American history

Download or read book Widener Library Shelflist American history written by Harvard University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peninsula Portrait

Download or read book Peninsula Portrait written by Mitchell Postel and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: