Historic Photos Of Oakland

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Publisher : Turner
ISBN 13 : 9781684420858
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Historic Photos of Oakland written by and published by Turner. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its place directly opposite San Francisco Bay from one of the world's most visited cities has left Oakland to struggle against comparison from the start. It has greeted that challenge by asserting its identity as an effervescent international port city with a richly diverse, uniquely creative, and highly resilient population. Oakland consistently finds itself at the forefront of the rapid pace of change that California has helped to drive, with its history of daring experiments in social, scientific, and cultural innovation. The camera has preserved glimpses into the impacts of that change--and the ways in which Oakland has adapted to sustain itself as a charming and welcoming gateway to the Pacific. Historic Photos of Oakland collects a small fraction of the record the cameras have left behind, providing a compelling view of the colorful past of the "second" City by the Bay.

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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1618584162
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Photos of Oakland written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its place directly opposite San Francisco Bay from one of the world’s most visited cities has left Oakland to struggle against comparison from the start. It has greeted that challenge by asserting its identity as an effervescent international port city with a richly diverse, uniquely creative, and highly resilient population. Oakland consistently finds itself at the forefront of the rapid pace of change that California has helped to drive, with its history of daring experiments in social, scientific, and cultural innovation. The camera has preserved glimpses into the impacts of that change—and the ways in which Oakland has adapted to sustain itself as a charming and welcoming gateway to the Pacific. Historic Photos of Oakland collects a small fraction of the record the cameras have left behind, providing a compelling view of the colorful past of the "second” City by the Bay.

Author : Lois Rather
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oakland's Image written by Lois Rather and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738535821
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oakland written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, Oakland was both a bustling industrial village and a rural farming community. The town was home to busy ax factories, a railway complex built for tourists and trade, an electric power company, a waterfall nearly as high as Niagara Falls, oxen plowing fields, and a Civil War memorial to rival any in the state of Maine. Today, Oakland is a quiet suburban town for most of the year. Its downtown does not draw the shoppers it once did, and its factories and farms can be counted on two hands. Even after two hundred years of change, Oakland continues to rebuild and transform itself for the twenty-first century.

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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1618584340
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Photos of the Chinese in California written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese were a visible current in the tidal wave of humanity that rushed through San Francisco’s Golden Gate in the mid-nineteenth century. Known to their countrymen as Gam Saan Haak (guests of Gold Mountain), Chinese immigrants sought great fortune. Most found only hostility and hard work, often braving the most dangerous and loathsome jobs. They endured violence and injustice, yet clung to this land with tenacity and patience and made it their own. With nearly 200 historic photographs gathered from notable collections, this book explores a century of Chinese progress in California. Retracing the immigrants’ steps—from the gold fields to the high Sierra railroad camps, to lettuce fields and olive groves, and to the Monterey coast—we visit Chinese enclaves throughout the state. We linger in San Francisco’s old Chinatown, home to cherished children and notorious tong gangs, where new arrivals first found refuge and familiar goods, and tourists later found exotic merchandise spilling from aging storefronts. These historic images recall a time when the Chinese community in California was still a world apart.

Author : Kevin Heffernan
Publisher : History Press (SC)
ISBN 13 : 9781596293342
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Oakland written by Kevin Heffernan and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tucked away in the northwestern corner of Bergen County, Oakland was for years a peacefully undiscovered outpost. Yet as Kevin Heffernan chronicles in A History of Oakland, the town's placid, easygoing character belies a fascinating and deeply engrossing history. From the interactions between the earliest Dutch settlers and the area's Lenape Indians, to the surprising pro-slavery attitudes of mid-nineteenth-century northern New Jersey, to the radical--and, to some, wrenching--changes wrought by late twentieth-century commercial development, Heffernan provides a definitive account of the life and times of this once-sleepy town.

Author : Oakland Museum
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9780877015888
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picturing California written by Oakland Museum and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1989 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Wong
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439630801
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oakland's Chinatown written by William Wong and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-10-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oaklands Chinatown has a history every bit as compelling as its more famous neighbor across San Francisco Bay. Chinese have been a presence in Oakland since the 1850s, bringing with them a rich and complex tradition that survived legalized discrimination that lingered until the 1950s. Once confined to a small area of downtown where restaurants stir-fried, laundries steamed, and vegetable stands crowded the sidewalks, Chinese gradually moved out into every area of Oakland, and the stands evolved into corner groceries that cemented entire neighborhoods. Chinese helped Oakland grow into a modern business and cultural center and have gained prominence in every aspect of the citys commerce, politics, and arts.

Author : James Miller Guinn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the State of California and Biographical Record to Oakland and Environs written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Sallee
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439637873
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book Oakland Park written by Anne Sallee and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oakland Park was named for the massive stand of trees that lined the Middle River. Our first permanent settlers were the Whidby family, who came from Georgia to South Florida in 1901, when the area was known as Colahatchee. By 1918, other farming families had moved into the area, and bean and pepper fields were abundant. In 1923, a Miami development company initiated the Oakland Park subdivision with one of the biggest barbecues ever held in Broward County, with an estimated attendance of 5,000 people from Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties. The city was incorporated first as Floranada in early 1925 by the American-British Improvement Company, a group of international investors. Plans for the resort included two 18-hole golf courses, a polo field, an aviation field, tennis courts, and a yacht club. It was intended to rival Palm Beach, but this vision was carried away with hurricane winds on September 18, 1926. Bankruptcy and devastating damage brought the development to an end. Despite offers from Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach, the citizens of Oakland Park agreed that the community could be run more efficiently as an independent city. The city was reorganized and reincorporated as Oakland Park on July 1, 1929.