The Lure of San Francisco
Author | : Elizabeth Gray Potter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Elizabeth Gray Potter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gray Elizabeth Potter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2007-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781428056305 |
Author | : Elizabeth Gray Potter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2009-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781409974789 |
"The average visitor considers California's claim to historic recognition as dating from the discovery of gold. Her children, both by birth and adoption, have a hazy pride in her Spanish origin but are too busy with today's interests to take much thought of it. They know that somewhere over in the Mission is the old adobe church. They rejoice that it escaped the fire but have no time to visit it. They will proudly tell their eastern friends of its existence and that the Presidio received its name from the Spaniards but further narration of the heritage is lost in exclamations over the beauty of the drives and the views, while the historic significance of Portsmouth Square is smothered in the delight over Chinese embroideries, bronzes and cloisonne. "
Author | : Elizabeth Gray Potter |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2016-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781371570088 |
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Author | : Elizabeth Gray Potter |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781334456121 |
Excerpt from The Lure of San Francisco: A Romance Amid Old Landmarks The average visitor considers California's claim to historic recognition as dating from the discovery of gold. Her children, both by birth and adoption, have a hazy pride in her Spanish origin but are too busy with today's interests to take much thought of it. They know that somewhere over in the Mission is the old adobe church. They rejoice that it escaped the fire but have no time to visit it. They will proudly tell their eastern friends of its existence and that the Presidio received its name from the Spaniards but further nar ration oi the heritage is lost in exclamations over the beauty of the drives and the views, while the historic significance of Portsmouth Square is smothered in the delight over Chi nese embroideries, bronzes and cloisonne. 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."
Author | : Abigail M. Markwyn |
Publisher | : University of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2021-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496224906 |
When the more than eighteen million visitors poured into the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, they encountered a vision of the world born out of San Francisco’s particular local political and social climate. By seeking to please various constituent groups ranging from the government of Japan to local labor unions and neighborhood associations, fair organizers generated heated debate and conflict about who and what represented San Francisco, California, and the United States at the world’s fair. The Panama-Pacific International Exposition encapsulated the social and political tensions and conflicts of pre–World War I California and presaged the emergence of San Francisco as a cosmopolitan cultural and economic center of the Pacific Rim. Empress San Francisco offers a fresh examination of this, one of the largest and most influential world’s fairs, by considering the local social and political climate of Progressive Era San Francisco. Focusing on the influence exerted by women, Asians and Asian Americans, and working-class labor unions, among others, Abigail M. Markwyn offers a unique analysis both of this world’s fair and the social construction of pre–World War I America and the West.
Author | : Catherine Cocks |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2001-09-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520227468 |
This fascinating cultural history, studded with vivid details bringing the experience of Victorian-era travel alive, explores the beginnings of urban tourism, and sets the phenomenon within a larger cultural transformation that encompassed fundamental changes in urban life and national identity.".
Author | : Ocean Howell |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2015-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022629028X |
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, residents of the city’s iconic Mission District bucked the city-wide development plan, defiantly announcing that in their neighborhood, they would be calling the shots. Ever since, the Mission has become known as a city within a city, and a place where residents have, over the last century, organized and reorganized themselves to make the neighborhood in their own image. In Making the Mission, Ocean Howell tells the story of how residents of the Mission District organized to claim the right to plan their own neighborhood and how they mobilized a politics of place and ethnicity to create a strong, often racialized identity—a pattern that would repeat itself again and again throughout the twentieth century. Surveying the perspectives of formal and informal groups, city officials and district residents, local and federal agencies, Howell articulates how these actors worked with and against one another to establish the very ideas of the public and the public interest, as well as to negotiate and renegotiate what the neighborhood wanted. In the process, he shows that national narratives about how cities grow and change are fundamentally insufficient; everything is always shaped by local actors and concerns.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1046 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Catherine Cocks |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2013-04-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0812244990 |
Tropical Whites explains how the tropical beach resort came to symbolize the iconic vacation landscape. Catherine Cocks argues that the tourism industry romanticized and commodified tropical nature in the global South, ultimately legitimizing cultural pluralism and concepts of modern identity.