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A Pacific Legacy, a Century of Maritime Photography 1850-1950 Manuscript and Proofs
One copy of the manuscript, "A Pacific legacy: a century of maritime photography 1850-1950" and 1 set of proofs titled "A Pacific legacy," made in conjunction with the publishing of Wayne Bonnett's book by that name.
Bracing for Disaster
“The first history of seismic engineering in San Francisco . . . spiced with survivor and eyewitness accounts. ”—Midwest Book Review For the past one hundred and fifty years, architects and engineers have quietly been learning from each quake and designing newer earthquake-resistant building techniques and applying them in an ongoing effort to save San Francisco. Bracing for Disaster is a fresh appraisal of a city responding to repeated devastation. In the language of a skilled teacher, Tobriner examines what really happened during the city’s earthquakes—which buildings were damaged, which survived, and who were the unsung heroes. Filled with more than two hundred photographs, diag...
A Pacific Legacy
Exquisite collection of photos from the Museum Archives of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Many were made with old large (and slow) film resulting in extraordinary detail and contrast. Most of the text is confined to lengthy captions that place the vessel and frequently provide its history. Chapters begin with a page of introduction to such subjects as ports of the Pacific, shipbuilding, the navy. Aside from its obvious place in history collections, this book will grace photography libraries. Chronicle Books grows more admirable with each season. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Recollections of the War with Mexico
"Major John Henshaw's firsthand account of the American invasion of Mexico includes not only narratives of the war's major battles but also forceful critiques of military leadership and strategies and vivid descriptions of Mexico's countryside, cities, and people. Editor Gary Kurutz provides extensive annotations of Henshaw's journals and letters"--Provided by publisher.
Empire on Display
The world’s fair of 1915 celebrated both the completion of the Panama Canal and the rebuilding of San Francisco following the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire. The exposition spotlighted the canal and the city as gateways to the Pacific, where the American empire could now expand after its victory in the Spanish-American War. Empire on Display is the first book to examine the Panama-Pacific International Exposition through the lenses of art history and cultural studies, focusing on the event’s expansionist and masculinist symbolism. The exposition displayed evidence—visual, spatial, geographic, cartographic, and ideological—of America’s imperial ambitions and accomplishments. R...
San Francisco's Chinatown
Since the Gold Rush, San Francisco's Chinatown has been a destination for sojourners, immigrants, locals, and tourists. Despite laws restricting Chinese immigration, Chinatown has thrived as a residential and commercial center. Designed for tourists and bearing little resemblance to real Chinese cityscapes, the streets and buildings have nonetheless been extensively documented in picture postcards, as have the residents, particularly from the 1890s to 1930s, the "Golden Age of Postcards." The cards, relatively few of which survive, were kept as visual souvenirs and mementos, or were mailed to family and friends. Book jacket.
Golden Dreams
Explores the social, cultural, and economic history of California from 1950 through 1963, and discusses such topics as demography, water, freeways, development in the major cities and suburban areas, race relations, and more.
Taber, a Photographic Legacy, 1870-1900
The bulk of the collection features individual and group portraits of I.W. Taber, his wife, his daughters Daisy and Louise, views of his Oakland, Calif., residence, and of his photographic parlors. Porcelain dishes are illustrated with views of Yosemite Valley.
Seaway to the Future
Realizing the century-old dream of a passage to India, the building of the Panama Canal was an engineering feat of colossal dimensions, a construction site filled not only with mud and water but with interpretations, meanings, and social visions. Alexander Missal’s Seaway to the Future unfolds a cultural history of the Panama Canal project, revealed in the texts and images of the era’s policymakers and commentators. Observing its creation, journalists, travel writers, and officials interpreted the Canal and its environs as a perfect society under an efficient, authoritarian management featuring innovations in technology, work, health, and consumption. For their middle-class audience in t...
