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Lost worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area / Sylvia Linsteadt ; foreword by Gary Kamiya.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linsteadt, Sylvia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industries.
- History.
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--Description and travel.
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.).
- Industries--California--San Francisco--History.
- San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)--History.
- California--San Francisco.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 207 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2017]
- Summary:
- "A visual and literary exploration of "dewdrop worlds" of the San Francisco Bay Area--eras and industries that once flourished but have now disappeared."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Point Molate Whaling Station
- Marinship
- Neptune Beach
- Fruit orchards of the Santa Clara Valley
- Arequipa Pottery
- Belgum Sanitarium
- Bohemia at Monkey Block
- The Emporium Department Store
- The Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway
- The sand dunes of old San Francisco
- Mount Diablo Coal Mines
- The Farallon Lighthouse
- Paddlewheel boats
- Shrimp fishing at China Camp
- The last days of Oakland's redwoods
- New Almaden Quicksilver Mine
- Fort Ross
- Ranchos of the Santa Clara Valley.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781597143912
- 159714391X
- OCLC:
- 954134283
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