San Francisco: a chronological & documentary history, 1542-1970 / compiled and edited by Robert Mayer
- Bib ID:
- 1818133
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mayer, Robert, 1934-
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- Description:
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- Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications, 1974
- v, 152 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0379006146
- Series:
- American cities chronology series
- Summary:
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A chronological history of San Francisco with selected pertinent documents.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: CHRONOLOGY 1
- The Spanish Period, 1542-1821 1
- The Mexican Period, 1821-1846. 4
- American Possession and Organization 1846-1848 8
- The Gold Rush, 1848-1860 10
- Era of Industrialization, 1860-1900 20
- The Turn of the Century, 1900-1906. 30
- The Earthquake and Reconstruction, 1906-1920. 31
- The 1920s 38
- Depression and Recovery, 1929-1941 40
- War and Peace, 1941-1952 43
- The Modern Period, 1952-1970 46
- DOCUMENTS 53
- The Discovery of San Francisco Bay, 1774 54
- The Founding of San Francisco, 1776 55
- Description of Conditions in San Francisco, 1816 60
- Description of San Francisco by the Russian Explorer
- Otto von Kotzebue, 1824 61
- Description of San Francisco by Frederick William
- Beechey, 1825. 62
- An American Visit to San Francisco, 1825 63
- San Francisco in 1835. 64
- Description of San Francisco, 1837 65
- The United States Takes Possession of San Francisco, 1846 66
- The Naming of San Francisco by Alcalde Bartlett, January 23,
- 1847 68
- Letter from Colonel R.B. Mason to George Hyde, July 15,
- 1847 69
- The Laws of the Town of San Francisco, 1847 70
- The Gold Rush, 1848 75
- First City Charter of San Francisco, 1850 76
- The Woman Problem, 1850. 79
- The Fire of May 4, 1851 81
- The San Francisco Fire Department of 1851 82
- The Increase and Impunity of Crime, 1851 83
- The County Jail, 1851 85
- The Constitution of the First Vigilance Committee, 1851 86
- The Execution of Jenkins, June 10, 1851 87
- The Vigilance Committee of 1853 89
- The Broderick-Terry Duel and The Slavery Issue,
- September, 1859 92
- The First Transcontinental Railroad, 1869 94
- The Barbary Coast, 1875. 95
- The Chinese Problem, 1879 97
- The Palace Hotel, 1875 98
- A Poem for San Francisco, 1870s 100
- The Cable Cars of San Francisco, 1889 101
- Anti-Chinese Prejudice, 1897 102
- Chinatown, 1900 103
- The City Charter of 1900 105
- The Great Earthquake, 1906 114
- New York Times Report of the Earthquake, 1906 116
- Proclamation by the Maybr Placing the City under Martial
- Law, 1906 119
- Bubonic Plague, 1907 120
- The Breaking of the Unions, 1916 122
- The Pagoda-Like Phone Exchange, 1929 127
- The City Charter of 1931 128
- Opposition to the 1931 Charter by Vested Interests 132
- Labor Violence, July 6, 1934 134
- Recommendations of the City Planning Committee, 1965 137
- The Hippie Subculture, 1967. 139
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 143
- NAMEINDEX 151.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 143-149.
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