Documents tagged with california history

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Born to Bondage

The story of the incredible Biddy Mason. Brought to California as a slave and freed by a landmark legal judgement before the Civil War, at her death 36 years later Biddy was one of the richest blac...
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  • jcdavison published this 06 / 03 / 2009
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Marin City Memories

Stories of African-Americans who worked in Marinship during World War II.
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  • likelife published this 06 / 01 / 2009
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Pale Truth

Named Book of the Year for General Fiction by ForeWord Magazine From Publishers Weekly California joined the Union in 1850; just in time for the state's sesquicentennial comes this big, ambitious...
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  • Meta4 Publishing published this 05 / 23 / 2009
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excerpt from "The Land of Gold"

A page from an old book that can be found in Google books
  • thescotsman50 published this 04 / 15 / 2009
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"Monterey" poem

MONTEREY (from the Friendly Park monument) by Daniel O’Connell, 1900 In the mantle of old traditions, In the rime of a vanished day, The shrouded and silent city Sits by her crescent bay. The ruine...
  • thescotsman50 published this 03 / 28 / 2009
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Naruta and Teer 2006 -- Pre Quake Demographics -- San Franciso Chinatown

Anna Naruta and Jamille Teer, “Pre-quake Demographics,” a report on San Francisco Chinatown composition in 1900, and the Chinese, Japanese, and African American newspapers then operating there. In...
  • Anna_Naruta published this 01 / 17 / 2009
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1905-1906 attempt to dislocate San Franciso Chinatown

one of the set of exhibition handouts for Earthquake: The Chinatown Story, April 4 – December 15, 2006, CHSA Museum
  • Anna_Naruta published this 01 / 17 / 2009
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San Francisco Chinatown -- Selected Milestones 1906-2006

Anna Naruta “San Francisco Chinatown 1906-2006: Selected Milestones”, in Chinatown Rising: Since the Quake (San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America 2006) copyright 2006 Anna Naruta ...
  • Anna_Naruta published this 01 / 17 / 2009
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2008 CHSA Journal Special Issue -- Labor and San Franciso's Garment Industry -- Introduction

Introduction and table of contents for special thematic issue, Labor and San Francisco's Garment Industry
  • CHSAmuseum published this 01 / 17 / 2009
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Lew Hing's Pacific Coast Canning Company (Naruta 2005)

Anna Naruta “Lew Hing’s Pacific Coast Canning Company – A New Jobsite in West Oakland, 1905” Oakland Heritage Alliance News 25(1): 1, 3, 9 (Spring 2005) Lew Hing’s Pacific Coast Canning Company ...
  • Anna_Naruta published this 01 / 17 / 2009
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OaklandCA_1966SanPabloAve

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  • Anna_Naruta published this 01 / 17 / 2009
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Ghost Town News v1n5 June 1942

Ghost Town News for June, 1942 includes stories on the first emperor of the United States, Bullfrog Nevada, and Lillie Hitchcock Coit who paid for Coit Tower in San Francisco.
  • rhartill published this 10 / 22 / 2008
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Ghost Town News v2n7 October 1942

October 1942 issue of Ghost Town News, published by Knott's Berry Place, now known as Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park, California
  • rhartill published this 10 / 22 / 2008
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