Los Angeles from the Days of the Pueblo
Author : William Wilcox Robinson
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : William Wilcox Robinson
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : W. W. Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780910312455
Author : W. W. Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 1959
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Author : William Wilcox Robinson
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
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Author : Jean Bruce Poole
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 36,56 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892366620
Founded in 1781 by pioneers from what is today northern Mexico, El Pueblo de Los Angeles mirrors the history and heritage of the city to which it gave birth. When the pueblo was the capital of Mexico’s Alta California, the region’s rancheros came here to celebrate mass or to attend fiestas in the historic Plaza. Following California’s statehood in 1850, the pueblo for a time ranked among the most lawless towns of the American West. American speculators, wealthy rancheros, and Italian wine merchants crowded its dusty streets. The town’s first barrio and the vibrant precincts of Old Chinatown soon grew up nearby. As Los Angeles burgeoned into a modern metropolis, its historic heart fell into ruin, to be revitalized by the creation in 1930 of the romantic Mexican marketplace at Olvera Street. Here, two years later, David Alfaro Siqueiros painted the landmark mural América Tropical, whose story is a fascinating tale of art, politics, and censorship. In the decades since, the pueblo has remained one of Southern California’s most enduring and most complex cultural symbols. El Pueblo vividly recounts the story of the birthplace of Los Angeles. An engaging historical narrative is complemented by abundant illustrations and a tour of the pueblo’s historic buildings. The book also describes initiatives to preserve the pueblo’s rich heritage and considers the significance of its multicultural legacy for Los Angeles today
Author : John W. Robinson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0806189398
Most accounts of California’s role in the Civil War focus on the northern part of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865. Drawing on contemporary reports in the Los Angeles Star, Southern News, and other sources, Robinson shows how the war came to Los Angeles and narrates the struggle between the pro-Southern faction and the Unionists. Los Angeles in the early 1860s was a developing town, lacking many of the refinements of civilization that San Francisco then enjoyed, and was much smaller than the bustling metropolis we know today. The book focuses on the effects of the war on Los Angeles, but Robinson also considers social and economic problems to provide a broader view of the community and its place in the nation. The Conscription Act and devalued greenbacks encited public unrest, and the cattle-killing drought of 1862–64, a smallpox epidemic, and recurrent vigilantism challenged Angelenos as well. California historians and those interested in the city’s historical record will find this book a fascinating addition to the body of California’s Civil War history.
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 1960*
Category : City planning
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Author : James Roman
Publisher : Museyon
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1938450760
There's more to Los Angeles than lights, camera, action! From the city's early, devilish days populated by missionaries, robber barons, oil wells and orange groves, Chronicles of Old Los Angeles explains how the Wild West became the Left Coast. Learn how Alta California became the 31st state, and how ethnic waves built Los Angeles—from Native Americans to Spaniards, Latinos and Asians, followed by gangsters, surfers, architects and the Hollywood pioneers who brought fame to the City of the Angels. Then, discover the city yourself with six guided walking/driving tours of LA's historic neighborhoods, profusely illustrated with color photographs and period maps.
Author : Enrique AGUIRRE
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781389498633
This book is dedicated to the people of Los Angeles at the Placita Olvera one of the first establishments in California, Los Angeles. It contains images of a cultural event that takes place every year. The images depict folklore dancers as well as the architecture in the surrounding area. Besides showing the cultural aspect the images also show the religious side of the great people performing and living in Los Angeles.
Author : William David Estrada
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0292782098
2008 — Gold Award in Californiana – California Book Awards – Commonwealth Club of California 2010 — NACCS Book Award – National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies City plazas worldwide are centers of cultural expression and artistic display. They are settings for everyday urban life where daily interactions, economic exchanges, and informal conversations occur, thereby creating a socially meaningful place at the core of a city. At the heart of historic Los Angeles, the Plaza represents a quintessential public space where real and imagined narratives overlap and provide as many questions as answers about the development of the city and what it means to be an Angeleno. The author, a social and cultural historian who specializes in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Los Angeles, is well suited to explore the complex history and modern-day relevance of the Los Angeles Plaza. From its indigenous and colonial origins to the present day, Estrada explores the subject from an interdisciplinary and multiethnic perspective, delving into the pages of local newspapers, diaries and letters, and the personal memories of former and present Plaza residents, in order to examine the spatial and social dimensions of the Plaza over an extended period of time. The author contributes to the growing historiography of Los Angeles by providing a groundbreaking analysis of the original core of the city that covers a long span of time, space, and social relations. He examines the impact of change on the lives of ordinary people in a specific place, and how this change reflects the larger story of the city.