Download or read book Second Anniversary of the Organization of the Fire Department of San Francisco written by San Francisco (Calif.). Fire Department and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Check List of California Non documentary Imprints 1833 1855 written by California Historical Records Survey and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cause for Alarm written by Amy S. Greenberg and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though central to the social, political, and cultural life of the nineteenth-century city, the urban volunteer fire department has nevertheless been largely ignored by historians. Redressing this neglect, Amy Greenberg reveals the meaning of this central institution by comparing the fire departments of Baltimore, St. Louis, and San Francisco from the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Volunteer fire companies protected highly flammable cities from fire and provided many men with friendship, brotherhood, and a way to prove their civic virtue. While other scholars have claimed that fire companies were primarily working class, Greenberg shows that they were actually mixed social groups: merchants and working men, immigrants and native-born--all found a common identity as firemen. Cause for Alarm presents a new vision of urban culture, one defined not by class but by gender. Volunteer firefighting united men in a shared masculine celebration of strength and bravery, skill and appearance. In an otherwise alienating environment, fire companies provided men from all walks of life with status, community, and an outlet for competition, which sometimes even led to elaborate brawls. While this culture was fully respected in the early nineteenth century, changing social norms eventually demonized the firemen's vision of masculinity. Greenberg assesses the legitimacy of accusations of violence and political corruption against the firemen in each city, and places the municipalization of firefighting in the context of urban social change, new ideals of citizenship, the rapid spread of fire insurance, and new firefighting technologies. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book A Bibliography of the History of California and the Pacific West 1510 1906 written by Robert Ernest Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Twenty ninth Convention of the Pacific Coast Fire Chiefs August 9 12 1922 and Golden Anniversary of International Association of Fire Engineers August 15 18 1922 written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Annals of San Francisco written by Frank Soulé and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Annals of San Francisco Containing a Summary of the History of California and a Complete History of Its Great City to which are Added Biographical Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens By Frank Soul John H Gihon and James Nisbet Illustrated with 150 Engravings written by Frank Soulé and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The 29th Anniversary and Annual Fire Book of the Veterans Firemen s Association of San Francisco Inc written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The 30th Anniversary and Annual Fire Book of the Veterans Firemen s Association of San Francisco Inc written by Veteran Firemen's Association of San Francisco and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Everything Took Time written by Bill Koenig and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 8.5 x 11 Hardcover with Dust Jacket256 pages including 32 color pagesAt 5:12 on the morning of April 18, 1906, a mild foreshock shook San Francisco. Twenty-five seconds later, the Great Earthquake, lasting almost a minute, devastated the City. In San Francisco, this historic event is more often referred to as the Great Fire.Within the first hours, 52 fires spread across the City. The quake destroyed the central fire alarm and telephone systems; thus, no alarms sounded to the 584 members of the Fire Department. The department was without any means of communication; every company was on its own.The engine companies responded to visible fires but discovered the quake had broken most of the water mains. As firefighters searched desperately for working hydrants, small-unchecked building fires merged into large, uncontrolled fires. Before long, the conflagration engulfed 4.7 square miles of the City.Despite these setbacks and challenges, the San Francisco Fire Department fought on, day and night until, late in the evening on April 20th, they extinguished the fire and saved the City.Everything Took Time transports you to those three eventful days in April 1906 to experience the heroic battle of the San Francisco firefighters. Author Bill Koenig gives the events immediacy citing contemporary newspaper articles and takes you behind the scenes with previously unpublished officers' reports. Leave your 21st-century viewpoints behind and read how the department managed a disaster of this magnitude without the tools we have today.