Earthquake Exodus, 1906
Title | Earthquake Exodus, 1906 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Schwartz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
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Earthquake Exodus, 1906 tells the story of the ten-week relief effort in the East Bay after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire. Within hours of the earthquake, the people of Berkeley began to organize a citizens' committee, knowing that terrified masses of stricken refuges would pour into their town within hours. By revisiting both their challenges--smallpox, fires, and keeping public order--and acts of grace, such as taking in the homeless, setting up temporary camps, and dispensing food, Richard Schwartz illuminates a nearly forgotten episode in Bay Area history. Containing many breathtaking photos and illustrations not seen for nearly one hundred years, this new visual history offers up singularly human details of one of the nation's most infamous disasters.
Earthquake 1906
Title | Earthquake 1906 PDF eBook |
Author | 1906 Earthquake Centennial Alliance |
Publisher | |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Earthquakes |
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Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley
Title | Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cutthroats of Old Berkeley PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Schwartz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
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The seventeen stories Schwartz tells here remond us of an often-overlooked reality: that the face of humanity of the past is the same as our own. Although the world of these colorful characters inhabit is in so many ways different from ours, their spirit rings true to our modern sensibilities, Eccentrics, Heroes, and Cuttthroats of Old Berkeley shows how deeply we share the emotions and motivations of our ancestors...whetehr she's a Native American girl trapped as a Berkeley domestic, a Civil War veteran gossiping and reminiscing his way down Shattuck Avenue in a horse-drawn wagon, or an African American dairyman whose keen observations and inventive skill bring him riches in a community that embraced him as a town founder. Schwartz brings forth these long-forgotten people from their resting place, and does so with such skill as a storyteller that we can, for a time, straddle two worlds and sense their profound continuity.
If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake
Title | If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Levine |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1992-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780808596769 |
For use in schools and libraries only. Describes the effects on San Francisco from the earthquake of 1906 and discusses the city's efforts to recover from the destruction.
Outrun the Moon
Title | Outrun the Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Stacey Heather Lee |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0399175415 |
"On the eve of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, Mercy Wong--daughter of Chinese immigrants--is struggling to hold her own among the spoiled heiresses at prestigious St. Clare's School. When tragedy strikes, everyone must band together to survive"--
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Of 1906
Title | The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Of 1906 PDF eBook |
Author | Louise Chipley Slavicek |
Publisher | Infobase Publishing |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Earthquakes |
ISBN | 1438118163 |
Examines the devastating earthquake that struck San Francisco in 1906 and the resulting fires that destroyed a large section of the city.
Berkeley 1900
Title | Berkeley 1900 PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Schwartz |
Publisher | R S B Books |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2009-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780967820446 |
"Berkeley 1900" transformed a stack of molding 100-year old newspapers into an extraordinary award winning compilation of everyday life at the turn of the century. The fascinating news articles are organized into thirty chapters. Each chapter examines a particular aspect of everyday life as the reporters of the day saw it.