Victorian San Francisco: The 1895 Illustrated Directory

Arts & Photography

Bonnett, Wayne

Photography & Video

California State Library

Western Americana in the California State Library

Reference

Almanacs & Yearbooks

Graphic Standards and Public Relations Manual (Partnerships for Change Series ; No. 1)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Márquez

Keller, Shelly G.

Psychology & Counseling

Seismic Safety Standards for Library Shelving: Manual of Recommended Practice

Shelton, John A.

Essays on the collections of eight key donors to the Stanford University Libraries during their first fifty years. Published by the California State Library Foundation, PO Box 942837, Sacramento, CA 94237, in an edition of 1,000 copies. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Book Collectors of Stanford: An Eclectic Eight Who Shaped the Stanford University Libraries

Biographies & Memoirs

Cole, John Young

Arts & Literature

Graphic Standards and Public Relations Manual

Business & Money

Marketing & Sales

<p>Alfred A. Hart documented the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad during the years 1864-1869. Although the book contains a great deal about railroading, the book focuses on the events and circumstances of railroading that are often over-looked or only briefly discussed. Among these are the vicissitudes of tunneling--with both nitroglycerin and black-powder techniques--in the brutally dense granite of the rugged California mountains, the question of how the workers were able to keep tunnels on a perfectly straight course while working from both sides of a mountain. Moreover, the book is an excellent primer on the general practices and problems attendant to wet-plate photography. Especially interesting is Mead's discourse on the ins-and-outs of commercial stereography in the American West during the 1860s. Mead has successfully collected nearly every known photograph ever taken by Hart of the Central Pacific Railroad. Moreover, he has made a special point to visit most of the si</p>

The Railroad Photographs of Alfred A. Hart, Artist

Kibbey, Mead B.

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