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Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles. Annual Report of the Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Fiscal Year July 1, 1927 to June 30, 1928.
Los Angeles, CA: Board of Harbor Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles, 1928 First Edition Collectible: Very Good
FIRST EDITION of the 1928 Annual Report. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 inches. 95, [1 blank] pp. Index, list and portraits of the Board of Harbor Commissioners, maps, numerous black-and-white photographs, tables, charts, large folding color map mounted inside the rear cover; text clean, unmarked. Color pictorial wrappers, added mylar jacket; binding square and tight, rubbed, small nick at foot of spine on front cover, toned. Ex library rubber stamps at foot of title page and at the head of index page (3), the only library markings. Very Good. In the early twentieth century the City of Los Angeles experienced unparalleled population growth and city leaders recognized the importance of a harbor for the city's future growth. The Board of Harbor Commissioners was created on December 9, 1907, marking the official founding of the Port of Los Angeles. San Pedro and Wilmington were annexed to the City of Los Angeles on August 28, 1909, making the Port of Los Angeles an official Department of the City of Los Angeles. With the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, Los Angeles became the nearest major American port northwest of the Canal, and a major port-of-call for most transpacific and coastal traffic. The 1920s was a decade of dynamic growth for the Port, marked by a boom in the petroleum, lumber, and citrus trades. For the first time in history, Los Angeles surpassed San Francisco as the West Coast's busiest seaport and ranked second only to New York in foreign export tonnage.
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135.00 USD
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Central Pacific Railroad Company. Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Central Pacific Railroad Company to the Stockholders. For the Year Ending December 31st, 1872.
Sacramento: Record Book and Job Printing House, 1873 First Edition Paperback Collectible: Very Good Paperback
8vo. 9 x 5 5/8 inches. 68 pp. Tables; occasional soiling within the text. Light mauve printed wrappers, text block sewn; binding square and tight, covers soiled with light use wear. Very Good. This is the first in a series of Annual Reports produced for the Central Pacific Railroad Company. It includes the statement of Leland Stanford, President, the General Superintendent's Report by A. N. Towne, the Secretary's Report by E. H. Miller, Jr., and the Chief Engineer's Report by S. S. Montague. The Central Pacific Railroad is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah that formed part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" in North America. It is now part of the Union Pacific Railroad. The Central Pacific Railroad was authorized by Congress in 1862; it was financed and built through "The Big Four;" Sacramento, California businessmen Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins. The "Golden Spike" connecting the western railroad to the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah, was hammered on May 10, 1869. Coast-to-coast train travel in eight days became possible, replacing months-long sea voyages and lengthy, hazardous travel by wagon trains.
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350.00 USD
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Fred Massarik, editor Advances in Organizational Development, Volume 3
Praeger 1995 1567501028 / 9781567501025 Hardcover Used: Like New None Hardcover
From the private collection of Fred Massarik. 8vo. 311 pp. 14 essays on organizational Development, including Massarik's "The Invented and Described Organism: IDO as Organizational Metaphor." Indexes; text clean, un-marked. Boards; binding square and tight. Excellent! Your order receives my personal attention.
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6.00 USD
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Henry Kraus. Gold Was the Mortar: The Economics of Cathedral Building.
New York: Barnes Noble, 1994 1566194210 / 9781566194211 Hardcover Used: Like New Like New Hardcover
8vo. 292 pp. 40 black-and-white illustrations, glossary, index; text clean, unmarked. Quarter cloth, boards, gilt titled spine, dust-jacket; binding square and tight. Fine. "Gold Was the Mortar" tells the stories of the creation of eight medieval cathedrals; and how they were financed.
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30.00 USD
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James C. Williams Energy and the Making of Modern California
Akron, OH University of Akron Press 1997 188483616X / 9781884836169 First Edition Paperback Used: Like New Paperback
2nd printing. Series on Technology and the Environment. Trade Paperback. xviii, 465 pp. Black-and-white figures, maps, tables, index; text clean, un-marked. Pictorial wrappers; binding square and tight. Bookplate of the Burndy Library inside front cover, small "released" rubber stamp inside rear cover. A beautiful, un-read, un-circulated copy. Excellent! Your order receives my personal attention.
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12.00 USD
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Trade Union Educational League Railroad Unionists Come to the Big Meeting for Amalgamation!
Chicago: Trade Union Educational League, 1921 First Edition Paperback Collectible: Very Good Paperback
Handbill. 9 x 6 inches. Printed on one side within a ruled border, folded twice, the paper is brown, but this may be the color as originally issued; text clean, unmarked. SCARCE. Very Good. This handbill announces a meeting to take place at Ashland Auditorium at Ashland Blvd. & Van Buren Street in Chicago on April 11th at 8 pm (no year, but circa 1920 or 1921). Good Speakers, including, H. Brown, Member of Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; Wm. Ross Knudsen, International Association of Machinists; and Wm. Z. Foster, member of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen and founder of the Trade Union Educational League. The Trade Union Educational League was established by William Z. Foster in 1920 as a means of uniting radicals within various trade unions for a common plan of action. The organization sought to both fund itself and spread its ideas through the sale of pamphlets and circulation of a monthly magazine. The group was marginalized by the unions of the American Federation of Labor, which objected to its strategy of "boring from within" existing unions in order to depose sitting union leadership. In 1929 the organization became the Trade Union United League which sought to establish radical dual unions in competition with existing labor organizations. The only copy currently in the trade; no copies in Worldcat.
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Union Pacific System. California and the Expositions. Yellowstone National Park. How to Go and What to See Enroute.
Omaha, NE: Union Pacific System, 1915 Paperback Collectible: Very Good Paperback
Pamphlet. 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. 64 pp. Black-and-white photographic illustrations throughout, map of the Union Pacific System from the Mississippi to the Pacific and from Mexico to Canada, table with "Cost of Transportation," list of Union Pacific travel agencies, form for requesting "Supplementary Information;" text clean, unmarked. Color pictorial wrappers, stapled; binding square and tight, very light soiling to wrappers. Fine. A very handsomely preserved travel brochure which "deals with the various routes that may be taken direct to the 1915 Exposition cities [San Francisco and San Diego] and outlines tours that cover diverse routes so that the traveler may plan his itinerary to include a trip through the entire West seeing the most possible with minimum expenditure of both time and money."
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100.00 USD
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