Book Description
Handwritten notes and two printed pages on the derivation of the name "California." The history of the usage is traced from the eighteenth century.
Author : Carthay Circle Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 1926
Category : California
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Handwritten notes and two printed pages on the derivation of the name "California." The history of the usage is traced from the eighteenth century.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,33 MB
Release : 1926
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Author : Graham Hughes
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 1926
Category : California
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Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
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Collection of articles from various newspapers and periodicals commemorating the arrival of the first American to reach California by the overland route.
Author : Charles 1830-1901 Nordhoff
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Page : 266 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781362992448
Author : Book Club of California
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Page : 13 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Book clubs
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Author : Frederic R. Gunsky
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Page : 27 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 1985
Category : California
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Author : Robert Ernest Cowan
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 1933
Category : California
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Author : Sandra E. Bonura
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2024-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496239091
Claus Spreckels (1828–1908) emigrated from his homeland of Germany to the United States with only seventy-five cents in his pocket, built a sugar empire, and became one of the richest Americans in history alongside John D. Rockefeller, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates. Migrating to San Francisco after the gold rush, Spreckels built the largest sugar beet factory of its kind in the United States. His sugar beet production in the Salinas Valley changed the focus of valley agriculture from dry to irrigated crops, resulting in the vast modern agricultural-industrial economy in today’s “Salad Bowl of the World.” When Spreckels gave America its first sugar cube, he became the “Sugar King.” The indomitable Spreckels was a colorful and complicated character on both sides of the Pacific. A kingpin in the development of the Hawai‘i-California sugarcane industry, he wielded a clenched fist over Hawai‘i’s economy for nearly two decades after occupying a position of unrivaled power and political influence with the Hawaiian monarchy, while also advancing major technology developments on the islands. The Sugar King’s legacy continued as the Spreckels family developed large portions of California, building and breaking monopolies in agriculture, shipping, railroading, finance, real estate, horse breeding, utilities, streetcars, and water infrastructure, and building entire towns and cities from infrastructure to superstructure. In The Sugar King of California Sandra E. Bonura tells the rags-to-riches story of Spreckels’s role in the developments of the sugarcane industry in the American West and across the Pacific, triumphing in a milieu rife with cronyism and corruption and ultimately transforming California’s industry and labor. Harshly criticized by his enemies for ruthless business tactics but loved by his employees, he was unapologetic in his quest for wealth, asserting “Spreckels’s success is California’s success.” But there’s always a cost for single-minded determination; the legendary family quarrels even included a murder charge. Spreckels’s biography is one of business triumph and tragedy, a portrait of a family torn apart by money, jealousy, and ego.
Author : William Alexander McClung
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 2002-05-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520234650
"An imaginative and provocative interpretation of the meaning of Los Angeles, carefully thought out and beautifully written."—Robert Winter, editor of Toward a Simpler Way of Life: The Arts and Crafts Architects of California "McClung's sharp eye, and his ability to be both critic and analyst, combine to make this a book of real timeliness. It is unusual, and it is smart."—William Deverell, author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910