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The Port of Los Angeles : from wilderness to world port / historical text by Charles F. Queenan.
LIBRA HE554.L7 Q44 1983
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Queenan, Charles F., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.)--History.
- Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.).
- California--Los Angeles Harbor.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schuyler, Robert L., 1947- (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 206 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Los Angeles, Calif.] : Los Angeles Harbor Department, 1983.
- Contents:
- The beginning
- 1542-1850
- The Banning era
- 1851-1885
- The great free-harbor fight
- 1880-1900
- Birth of a port
- 1901-1920
- Port industries
- The growing years
- 1921-1945
- The post war era
- 1946-1960
- The container age
- 1961-1970
- Challenge of the '70s
- Into the '80s
- The port today.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 203) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Queenan, Charles F. Port of Los Angeles.
- OCLC:
- 10059060
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