Download or read book Why a World Centre of Industry at San Francisco Bay written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why a World Centre of Industry at San Francisco Bay Classic Reprint written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Why a World Centre of Industry at San Francisco Bay Why should there be in time to come a World Industrial Centre upon the shores of San Francisco Bay? Because Nature has prepared for it, Progress ordains it, and History confirms it. Because among states and nations California has a unique individuality which is sure to find expression as the border lands of the Pacific unfold into the higher civilized life. Because wherever is situated the Centre of Industry there will be found the Centre of Empire. Because while the nations of Europe with their Atlantic traffic decline, the ports of the Pacific will rise into prominence under the impulse of superior development. Because World Supremacy may thus be placed within reach of the future occupants of the First Port of the Pacific. Because as the Orient and Occident here meet geographically, they should join hands commercially as well, products from East and West standing side by side as a World Commercial Clearing House. Because if the Centre of Industry on the Pacific is not established by the people of San Francisco Bay, others elsewhere will occupy the field, and thenceforward dominate the great ocean, both economically and politically. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Why a World Centre of Industry at San Francisco Bay written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Industries of San Francisco California written by J. H. Liggett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Industries of San Francisco, California: A Review of the Manufacturing, Mercantile, and Business Interests of the Bay City; Together With a Historical Sketch, of Her Rise and Progress This volume is designed to set forth in concise form the inherent and ac quired advantages of San Francisco as a commercial and manufacturing cen ter, and to acquaint the outside world with facts relating to her progress, pros perity and resources. In pursuance of these objects, all available sources of information have been drawn upon, and no efforts have been Spared to secure perfect accuracy. If errors occur they are unintentional, and for them indul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Industries of San Francisco written by Fred H. Hackett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Industries of San Francisco: Her Rank, Resources, Advantages, Trade, Commerce Manufactures, Conditions of the Past, Present and Future, Representative Industrial Institutions, Historical, Descriptive, and Statistical Were also among the notable incidents of the year. The population of San Francisco, in 1870, had increased to of which number were native Americans, and were Chinese. There were new buildings erected during the year, still the market had not fully recovered from the panic of the preceding year, and the average monthly sales of real estate, which, in the first half of 1869, had been fell to in 1870. In 1871, '72, '73 and '74 the growth of the city was very rapid, and times were greatly improved. Work was begun on the Palace Hotel, a mammoth and costly structure, in 1874, and in 1875 the mining stock excitement, which had begun in the preceding summer, culminated. The Bank of California failed. W. C. Ralston, its Presi dent, met his death in the waters of the bay - a supposed case of suicide - and the Nevada Bank was established. The destruction of Virginia City, Nevada, by fire, also occurred during this year, the loss being felt in San Francisco, where much of the burned property was owned. Prosperity prevailed in 1876. The Baldwin Hotel, rivaled ionly by the Palace, was erected, and the Southern Pa cific Railroad was extended for a distance of several hundred miles, thus bring ing San Francisco into closer connection with the southern country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Industrial Survey of Upper San Francisco Bay Area written by George William Dowrie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Industrial Survey of Upper San Francisco Bay Area: With Special Reference to a Salt Water Barrier Below Confluence of Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers This report is one of a series of bulletins on the State Water Plan issued by the Division of Water Resources pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 832, Statutes of 1929, directing further investigations of the water resources of California. The series includes Bulletins Nos. 25 to 36, inclusive. Bulletin No. 25, Report to Legislature Of 1931 on State Water Plan, is a summary report. Of the entire-investigation. Prior to the studies carried out under this act, the water resources investigation had been in progress more or less continuously since 1921 under several statutory enactments. The results of the earlier work have been published as Bulletins Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 19 and 20 of the former Division of Engineering and Irrigation, Nos. 5, 6 and 7 of the former Division of Water Rights, and Nos. 22 and 24 of the Division of Water Resources. This report is a part of a general economic investigation of a salt water barrier below the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. It also is printed as Appendix A in Bulletin 28, which covers the entire subject. It deals with the economic aspects of a barrier as related to present and future industrial development in the upper San Francisco Bay area with particular reference to water supply. The investigation, covering a period of six months, is based-in substantial part on 101 replies from a comprehensive questionnaire submitted by the State Engineer to 114 industries located in the upper San Francisco Bay area. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The City That Is written by Rufus Steele and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The City That Is: The Story of the Rebuilding of San Francisco in Three Years Inutile things. It is plain that there has come into modern mechanics a new method, its scope as remarkable as its speed of operation, which surpasses such feats as even a dreamer could lay to the credit of the blacksmith of the gods on Olympus. Vulcan has the solace of much good company, for the San Francisco achievement crowds back into his class the engineers of Babel, the pyramid builders, and a long line of wonder-workers in construction, each great enough in his own day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Builders of a Great City Vol 1 of 2 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Builders of a Great City, Vol. 1 of 2: San Francisco's Representative Men, the City, Its History and Commerce; Pregnant Facts Regarding the Growth of the Leading Branches of Trade, Industries and Products of the State and Coast The builders OF A great city is, as its name implies, a series of Sketches of some of the most prominent of those men who have done so much in the founding of San Francisco, and making it one of the great cities of the world, and not only the commercial, industrial and financial metropolis of the Pacific Coast, but of the whole West, as New York is of the East. Amongst the names presented in these pages will be found those of merchants, manufacturers, bankers, railroad magnates, and others, whose life work has been instrumental in making this city what it is to day. Every statement in these Sketches has been verified by the gentleman to whom it refers. The biographical contents of this volume thus form a body of personal history of leading men, the authenticity of which may never. Be questioned. In this lies their principal merit, as there is no pre tension made to graces of style or ornamental or majestic diction, plain business statements, couched as nearly as may be in the ordinary every day language of commercial life, being all that is aimed at. The biographies are, for easy reference, arranged in alphabetical order. As it became evi dent soon after undertaking the work that justice to the subject could not be done in one volume, it was determined to make this the first of a series bearing the same name and title. In the introduction of one hundred pages will be found, in a condensed form, all' that there is of interest regarding the matters therein treated of. These embrace a brief history of the city and State, with a description of the more striking features of both, the more important productions of the latter, its leading resources, a condensed history of gold and silver mining on the coast, the population of the city and its peculiarities, its principal institutions, and data revised to the present year regarding the commerce, manufactures, banking and finance of the city, and the leading staples of the State. All not found here will be published in Volume II. We aim to give in a small space, and for all time, information regarding the early history of the State and city that Shall be invaluable to the historian of the future. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Down by the Bay written by Matthew Booker and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times, Down by the Bay reveals the ongoing role of nature in shaping that history. From birds to oyster pirates, from gold miners to farmers, from salt ponds to ports, this is the first history of the San Francisco Bay and Delta as both a human and natural landscape. It offers invaluable context for current discussions over the best management and use of the Bay in the face of sea level rise.
Download or read book A People s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area written by Rachel Brahinsky and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation. A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective struggle has built the region. Countering romanticized commercial narratives about the Bay Area, geographers Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr highlight the cultural and economic landscape of indigenous resistance to colonial rule, radical interracial and cross-class organizing against housing discrimination and police violence, young people demanding economically and ecologically sustainable futures, and the often-unrecognized labor of farmworkers and everyday people. The book asks who had—and who has—the power to shape the geography of one of the most watched regions in the world. As Silicon Valley's wealth dramatically transforms the look and feel of every corner of the region, like bankers' wealth did in the past, what do we need to remember about the people and places that have made the Bay Area, with its rich political legacies? With over 100 sites that you can visit and learn from, this book demonstrates critical ways of reading the landscape itself for clues to these histories. A useful companion for travelers, educators, or longtime residents, this guide links multicultural streets and lush hills to suburban cul-de-sacs and wetlands, stretching from the North Bay to the South Bay, from the East Bay to San Francisco. Original maps help guide readers, and thematic tours offer starting points for creating your own routes through the region.
Download or read book Infinite City written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a place? Rebecca Solnit reinvents the traditional atlas, searching for layers of meaning & connections of experience across San Francisco.
Download or read book Made in California written by Stephanie Barron and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Made in California is divided into five twenty-year sections, each including a narrative essay discussing the history of that era and highlighting topics relevant to its visual culture."--BOOK JACKET.
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Download or read book Pictures of a Gone City written by Richard A. Walker and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Francisco Bay Area is currently the jewel in the crown of capitalism—the tech capital of the world and a gusher of wealth from the Silicon Gold Rush. It has been generating jobs, spawning new innovation, and spreading ideas that are changing lives everywhere. It boasts of being the Left Coast, the Greenest City, and the best place for workers in the USA. So what could be wrong? It may seem that the Bay Area has the best of it in Trump’s America, but there is a dark side of success: overheated bubbles and spectacular crashes; exploding inequality and millions of underpaid workers; a boiling housing crisis, mass displacement, and severe environmental damage; a delusional tech elite and complicity with the worst in American politics. This sweeping account of the Bay Area in the age of the tech boom covers many bases. It begins with the phenomenal concentration of IT in Greater Silicon Valley, the fabulous economic growth of the bay region and the unbelievable wealth piling up for the 1% and high incomes of Upper Classes—in contrast to the fate of the working class and people of color earning poverty wages and struggling to keep their heads above water. The middle chapters survey the urban scene, including the greatest housing bubble in the United States, a metropolis exploding in every direction, and a geography turned inside out. Lastly, it hits the environmental impact of the boom, the fantastical ideology of TechWorld, and the political implications of the tech-led transformation of the bay region.
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Download or read book Columbus Indiana in Vintage Postcards written by Tamara Stone Iorio and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1821, Columbus, Indiana, had grown into a thriving manufacturing region by the end of the 19th century. Columbus might have remained a community like most other small towns, but a group of citizens with an extraordinary vision developed a program to bring world-renowned architects to the city. Beginning in the mid-20th century, Columbus was transformed into a center of modern architectureranked sixth in the United States in architectural innovation by the American Institute of Architects (after Chicago, New York, Washington, San Francisco, and Boston). This collection of more than 200 vintage postcards features some of Columbuss earliest important buildings and its later architectural gems.
