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San Francisco's golden era, a picture story of San Francisco before the fire / by Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia F869.S3 B3 1960
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beebe, Lucius, 1902-1966.
- Clegg, Charles, 1916-1979, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- San Francisco (Calif.)--History--Pictorial works.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel--Views.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Endpapers (Binding)
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : Howell-North, 1960.
- Contents:
- Foreword: early history, the waterfront, vigilante times, Terry-Broderick duel
- The Comstock: Sutter's mill, mother lode, Adolph Sutro, Darius O. Mills, William Ralston, Montgomery Street excitements, the Bank of California
- The age of leisurely transport: carriages and bicycles, stages and horsecars, the ferries, river steamers, funerals and burials
- The cables
- Promontory: railroads from the East
- Wells, Fargo & Co.
- Night life: Barbary Coast, saloons, Cliff House, San Francisco stage
- Lucky Baldwin
- Newspapers: California Police Gazette
- Fire department
- Resorts: Woodward's Gardens, Golden Gate Park
- The palace
- Public and private luxury: dandy manners and clothes, Rincon Hill, Emperor Norton
- Chinatown.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Illustrated lining-papers.
- OCLC:
- 1386578
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