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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/75fall/blacks.htm
... became a part of the United States in 1850, its black population increased at about the same rate as the white population, but remained only about 1 percent of the total. 1 During the first years of the Gold Rush, most blacks, ...
... A third peculiarity of the black population of San Diego County (and indeed of Southern California as a whole) in this period was the relatively large number born in slave states. In Northern California, especially San Francisco ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/96spring/ritchey.htm
..." Ritchey played an important role in the development of the black community in San Diego in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Born in San Diego in 1909, when his family was living at the southwest corner of Front and F Streets, ...
... thereafter and practiced successfully for two decades, mainly in the black community. Ritchey also made many contributions to the wider community, serving on the boards of Children's Hospital, the YMCA, and the original San Diego Stadium Authority, among others. ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/73spring/walker.htm
... Black Prejudice in San Diego, 1866 By Henry Schwartz Images from the article On the morning of July 5, 1865, a sidewheel steamer from San Francisco looped around the lofty cape ...
..., especially a school teacher, would openly associate with a black person. Action was demanded of the School Trustees, and many parents of children in Miss Walker's class took independent steps. Complaints were lodged with E. W. Morse, senior ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/93spring/border.htm
... There, first white and later black soldiers guarded the region's communications and transportation links that were vital to San Diego and also prepared to stop an invasion that military strategists feared might come through Mexico. The black soldiers faced ...
... The black soldiers faced an added dimension to their service in San Diego's back country -the harsh reality of institutionalized segregation. The history of Camp Lockett in Campo, the last cavalry base built in ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/81spring/blacks.htm
... Black Pioneers in San Diego 1880 - 1920 By Gail Madyun and Larry Malone With an essay by Robert Fikes, Jr. Senior Assistant Librarian San Diego State University Images from the article ...
... San Diego's Black Pioneers: A Statement of Who We Are Actually, the black presence in what is now San Diego County was established long before whites from the United States began arriving in numbers. ...
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Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/81summer/br-black.htm
... The Development of Leadership and Organization Building in the Black Community of Los Angeles from 1900 Through World War II. By E. Frederick Anderson. Saratoga, California: Century Twenty One Publishing, 1980. Bibliography. Appendices. Table. 159 ...
... Black Los Angeles: The Maturing of the Ghetto, 1940-1950. By Keith E. Collins. Saratoga, California: Century Twenty One Publishing, 1980. Bibliography. Appendices. Tables. 120 ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/78spring/people.htm
... Thurston Black. We can follow Black's career through listings in the San Diego Business Directories and notices in the San Diego Union. First mention of Black is made in 1885 in the Union: ...
... Thurston Black of New York City, is now in San Diego for a short time and would be pleased to show a few specimens of his work to those who would favor him with a call ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/81winter/mud.htm
... Purdy, Three Peaks, Black Butte, or just plain Black Mountain). Complex interaction between the Pacific and North American Plates is indicated by the young spreading center in the Gulf of California, the northwest trending ...
... The principal craters are in ponds of very liquid black mud, one containing three or four cones of an oval form and the others only a few yards across. The principal one bubbles all the time, but every ten or 15 minutes ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/74summer/granite.htm
... an area which possessed one of the few deposits of rare black granite in the entire world. 3 This industry would provide stone for roads, buildings, dams, and jetties in San Diego. Today, little is known about the history of the ...
... It was not until 1921 that the more currently important black granite began being quarried extensively. In 1922, Robert J. Magee produced black granite in Pala, which is located in northern San Diego County. John Stridsburg began quarrying black granite in ...
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Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1929.htm
... Black, passenger chief for the Santa Fe railroad, says in an interview in The San Diego Union of March 19, 1929, "Create attractions. You can' t have too many ...
... Black could with much profit to the community have gone still farther and said, "Create attractions. But keep and support those you have." The register of visitors to the zoological ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/83summer/maiolica.htm
... introduces other colors (yellow, green, brown, and black) 1650-1800, the Chinese Blue Period; and 1800-1860 the Pueblan Period polychromes of Italian maiolists. Goggin's (1968) system divides the production of maiolica into chronologic periods with the type names derived ...
... to Puebla Blueon-White but with one or two thin black or coffee brown bands outlining one wide blue band on the rim. From these lines is a pendant border of dots of various sizes. The central medallion motif is a large deer or ...
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Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/75winter/br-black.htm
... California' s Black Pioneers: A Brief Historical Survey. By Kenneth G. Goode. Santa Barbara: Mcnally& Loftin, 1974. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. 222 pages. $6.95. Softbound ...
... State University, Fullerton, author of various articles on Western black history, including the prize winning "The City of Black Angels: Emergence of the Los Angeles Ghetto, 1890-1930," Pacific Historical Review, August, 1970. This work is the ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/83winter/logan.htm
... For many years the center of San Diego's black and Mexican American populations, Logan Heights now shares that distinction with areas to the east and southeast and, to a lesser extent, with several other parts of the San Diego metropolitan area ...
... have been a factor, and the location of a nearby black church further encouraged this clustering. 23 A more plausible reason, however, was the increased use of restrictive covenants in housing contracts. These covenants were effected in many areas of the city ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/74spring/light.htm
... A BLACK AMERICAN IN MEXICAN SAN DIEGO TWO RECENTLY RECOVERED DOCUMENTS Edited and Translated By David J. Weber The current archaeological restoration being done in San Diego's Old Town has yielded numerous artifacts which more ...
..." The great black abolitionist, Frederick Douglas, described these papers as being of considerable importance because they could substitute for the "free papers" which most states required blacks to carry. In his autobiography. ...
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Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1973.htm
... Black tie dinner and reception last night honoring Major Reuben H. Fleet, major donor of the Space Theater and Science Center; Center opens to public today (illus.). March ...
... Sunbathers push effort to "Save Black' s Beach," by Tom Blair. September 7, 1973, (San Diego) Evening Tribune. EDITORIAL: Prop. A would give` backbone" to San Diego ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/89winter/prostitutes.htm
... It is, however, important to note the appearance of black women in 1910 and the "disappearance" of Orientals. Chinese women may have refused to answer the door when census enumerators came by. Table 1 Ethnic Composition Ethnic 1900 1910 ...
... shift in prostitutes from the South might reflect the movement of black women in San Diego. The percentage of women from the Northeast or Midwest remained fairly constant. The birthplace of parents adds another factor that should be mentioned. In 1900 all of the ...
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Journal Index 1975-1989
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/index/1975-1989.htm
... "Black and White Ball," 29:2:83 Black Bart, 28:4:217 Black Dan, illus., 26:1:44 Black, Elizabeth, ...
... Black Jack Davidson. A Cavalry Commander on the Western Frontier: The Life of General John W. Davidson, by Homer K.davidson, reviewed, 21:3:60-6 Black, Justice, ...
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Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2001-4/br-soul.htm
... Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore, and author of Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s, (1998) Jacqueline Dje Dje and Eddie Meadows have taken a major step toward bridging the gap between African American musical universes within the continental ...
... Topics include the impact of Black migration on San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego; the effect of segregation and discrimination on the economic and cultural development of Black communities and individuals; the influence of class ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/59october/oldtown.htm
... backed out of the Chevvy red heels foremost, cumbersome long black skirts just clearing the door space. It was an awkward scramble over the dirt curb. "You'll come down for the celebration? The Plaza at noon?" "Maybe ...
... "In black?" "Black is right today and will be right tomorrow." "Then I'll do. Will I?" I wore a full silk skirt, as stiff ...
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Panama-California Exposition 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/cardlist/list790.htm
... GM790 ANONYMOUS, TITLES IN VERTICAL BLACK BOX ON LEFT FRONT Lower white border is wider than rest Back: Cyko paper Emergency Hospital P.c.expo* Laurel St Entrance* Looking up the Plaza 1-24-15 (toward Sacramento ...

Panama-California Exposition 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/cardlist/list770.htm
... GM 770 ANONYMOUS REAL PHOTOS - BLACK/WHITE ON TAN PAPER WITH WIDE WHITE BORDER no titles or subtitles front or back printed on Velox paper with diamonds in corner of stamp box (southwest arcade entrance to Foreign ...

Panama-California Exposition 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/cardlist/list540.htm
... GM540 SEAGRAVE FIRE APPARATUS (BLACK/WHITE) Motor Driven Apparatus Note: "Panama California Exposition San Diego 1915" on front Exposition Home| Postcard Tour| Postcard Index| Expo Map| History| Acknowledgements ...

Panama-California Exposition 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/cardlist/list531.htm
... GM531 SCHELLENBERG - REAL PHOTOS OF WHITE STATUES WITH BLACK BACKGROUND Panama California International Exposition on back 722 Maternity (mother embracing child) PC4-207 731 (statue of boy and girl on bench admiring ring) 752 ..arita ...

Panama-California Exposition 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/cardlist/list390.htm
... GM390 PAINTED DESERT - BY FRED HARVEY - BLACK/WHITE "Published by Fred. Harvey." on back Same views as GM400 (hand colored) (869) The Estufa in the Pueblo Village, The Painted Desert ...

Panama-California Exposition 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/cardlist/list130.htm
... - REAL PHOTOS OF WHITE STATUES WITH BLACK BACKGROUND 722 Maternity (mother embracing child) PC4-207 731 (statue of boy and girl on bench admiring ring) 752 ..arita (statue of boy seated) PC4-206 ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84fall/start.htm
... William Thurston Black arrived in the summer of 1885 expecting only to make a brief visit. Details of Black's early life are sketchy. Born in New Jersey in the 1810s, he is known to have ...
... After residing briefly in Los Angeles, Black made his way to San Diego. By July of 1885 he had set up a studio in the Backesto Block and announced his ability to paint portraits from life or from "photographs of ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/88winter/midst.htm
... The war had wrought many changes within the black population of San Diego. Its numbers had increased from 1,190 in 1920 to 4,413 in 1940. 1 Much of this increase was due to the military and warrelated industry. Prior to 1942 ...
... By 1945 the presence of black soldiers, sailors and members of the famous 10th Cavalry had become commonplace on Imperial Avenue. 2 One individual who significantly altered the quality of life for African Americans in San Diego in ...
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Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/78summer/br-blacks.htm
... what emerges from this work is a rather detailed picture of black Americans in the California gold rush decade. The book looks at Negro life during the 1850s in three broad areas. In the mines blacks worked as both free men and as slaves ...
... of gold leveled off and the rush of humanity slowed, black Californians began to establish a community life, particularly in the growing urban areas of San Francisco and Sacramento. Racism again hovered over their efforts to begin businesses, establish churches, and struggle ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/96fall/warners.htm
... well stocked buffet, the excellent beds, down to the Black Forest clock, which I was surprised to find in this country. The owner, Don Tom Yorba, was known everywhere for his hospitality. He combined polite frankness with modest dignity, ...
... Esther Boulton Black, Rancho Cucamonga and Dona Merced (Redlands: San Bernardino County Museum, 1975), 98; Northrop, Spanish American Families, 279-280; and M. L. Walker, The ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/77summer/journey.htm
... I however saw the black hare ( Lepus californicus or L. richardsoni or L. bennetti 49 ) which occurs here in the wild state. In the evening we moved southward and anchored in the Ensenada de la ...
... It is a favorite hiding place for black hares, wild pigeons and woodpeckers ( Centurus uorpygialis). I examined a number of caves in the southern wall, but without success. Sep da, who had taken another direction, ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/81fall/fitch.htm
... Fitch sold part of a large invoice, including blue and black cloth, Canton cloth, cotton handkerchiefs, chintz, cognac, gin, wine, cordials, glass vases, white and painted crockery, and iron bars. Further sales were made at ...
... drilling, white cottons, brown cottons, blue nankeens, black and scarlet fancy prints, blue black Italian silk, and colored velvet. Wearing apparel included crepe and satin shawls, gloves, fancy aprons, taffeta ribbons, lace handkerchiefs, ivory combs ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/99fall/china.htm
... patterns of green, blue, yellow, white, and black. In each of their pilasters, set in green and black tile on a blue background, is the famous cross and logo emblem of the Santa Fe Railway. Other decorative features include ...
... Small white circled red dots, interconnected by matte black lines, showed the larger cites and important junction points. The names of the cities and towns, projecting slightly from the map's surface, were in heavy brown black colored tile, with ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/62april/plant.htm
... marked route) is (31) Acacia melanoxylon, the Black Acacia. This is a large, vigorous tree which is sometimes called the tree without leaves; what seem to be leaves are actually phyllodes, or leaf like extensions of the stems. ...
... Across the wide path from the Black Acacia is (32) Quercus agrifolia, Hollyleaf or Coast Live Oak. This native of San Diego County and northern Baja California belongs to the family Fagaceae. A spreading, round topped ...
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Smythe: History of San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/smythe/5-1.htm
... the thighs, and their bodies were painted with white and black,, the groundwork being laid on in broad horizontal bands. The Dieguenos wore red, black, and white paint in fantastic designs; the groundwork being red and the decorations black and ...
... the groundwork being red and the decorations black and white. Each wore on his head a dress of eagle feathers and a few had a single, tall, straight eagle plume. Their arms con -sisted of bows and arrows ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84spring/sweet.htm
... Black in his history of San Diego County wrote of A.H. Sweet: "He is a strong and forceful advocate well versed in the underlying principles of his profession and with a broad general ...
... inquire, which he did, which got him on the black list suspect because he was inquiring about sending food to Germany." When Sweet fell seriously ill, Madame Schumann Heink visited, and she told him she arose at 5:30 ...
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Journal of San Diego History Volume 36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/90fall/amero.htm
... A formal succession of clipped black acacias in front of the buildings introduced order amid the tumult of colors and blooms. Roses, clematis, jasmine, and honeysuckle growing inside the grass covered patios of the Science and Education ...
... At night the stunning daytime colors gave way to black and white chiaroscuro. Electric lights outlined the silhouette of the Spreckels Organ Pavilion. Along the main avenue over 1,000 lamps with pear shaped globes on stately pillars, and bracket lamps and braziers ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/98fall/palomar.htm
... the telescope, on a day that would be remembered as Black Tuesday, the stock market collapsed. The immediate impact was on speculators and those who had been lured to invest on margin. But within a year the effects of the collapsing market spread ...
... frames a second, to create a "movie" of black holes swallowing matter inside our galaxy. And even as larger telescopes come into service, the 200-inch Hale telescope remains a unique symbol. After a half century of journalism and documentaries, ...
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Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1923.htm
... the king snakes is banded with brilliant markings of red, black and yellow. Copperheads from down east; flat, stubby moccasins from the swamps of the south; and many varieties of rattlesnakes, including the western diamond from Texas, the Pacific ...
..., coyotes, wildcats, badgers, coons, porcupines, black bear, right tailed cats and skunks, all from the United States; monkeys, catemondas, kinkajou, lemurs, apes, hyenas, etc. from the tropical regions of this and ...
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Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1912.htm
... will see the business section of the city, its streets black with men and women, thousands of automobiles darting here and there. To one side is one of the residence sections, glimpses of the houses being seen through masses of flowers and palms ...
... dress shirt is as aggravating as a red flag to a black bull. San Diego Union, March 2, 1912, 13:1. Gallant rank conferred on Collier; Order of Panama bestows highest degree for distinguished services; 25 members admitted ...
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Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/76fall/br-powder.htm
... Black Powder and Hand Steel: Miners and Machines on the Old Western Frontier. By Otis E. Young, Jr., with the technical assistance of Robert Lenon. Norman: University of ...
... he gained the assistance of Buck O'donnell, an artist whose black and white sketches do an immense amount to clarify matters that can't easily be explained in words alone. After first testing himself with a locally published mining monograph, in 1970 Young produced ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/60october/zlac.htm
... The club uniform in 1895 was a black, ankle length woolen skirt topped with a matching middy blouse with yellow braid trim on the collar. A yellow tie and a black tam o' shanter completed the uniform. When the weather ...
... Engraved invitations with black and yellow ribbons affixed with sealing wax were' sent to well wishers. Then it was discovered, a few days before the launching, that the barge could not possibly be ready even though ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/83winter/aguirre.htm
... This pin would be used to hold the hood of Rosario's black silk lace mantilla in place. In time, when the jeweler had done exactly as he had been directed, he inscribed Rosario's initials on the back of the comb, and then, ...
... Sometimes Rosario carried a different parasol, all black, which had a handle that was hinged in the middle. In a mahogany wardrobe or in a trunk in her bedroom, Rosario kept her beautiful dresses, embroidered Chinese shawls, ...
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Donal Hord
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/hord/hordlist2.htm
Donal Hord, Donald Hord, San Diego, History
... black walnut 1928 29 Chumash Shaman mahogany 1928 30 Vieja mahogany 1928 31 Tezcatlipoca (Smoking Mirror Dance) tropical hardwood, 12" ...
... black diorite 1936-37 75 Study of Sam Lewis terra cotta 1937 Male nude figure pencil on paper 11" x 14" 1937 Male figure pencil ...
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Donal Hord
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/hord/hordtour.htm
... The black diorite sculpture is on the north side of the Munk Laboratory. San Diego County Administration Building Guardian of Water c.1937 -39 Granite House of Hospitality Balboa Park, San ...
... Black Diorite San Diego State University Dr. Edward Hardy Plaque 1935 Bronze San Diego Public Library Architectural Panels 1953 Cast Stone San Diego Embarcadero Marina Park/Seaport ...
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Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1919.htm
... Seton, whose Indian name is Chief Shuka Sapa (Black Wolf) will stage the ceremonial of organizing and conducting a woodcraft council of braves, after lighting the sacred fire by the primitive methods of rubbing sticks. He will give the woodcraft laws ...
..., and scouts from the Francis Parker school will assist Chief Black Wolf in aboriginal games and a caribou dance. The invitation is general to youngsters above 8 years of age. The program, which will consume about two hours beginning at 2: ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/62january/concord.htm
... the newly restored splendor of its rich red colored cab, black tufted upholstery, and lemon yellow under carriage and wheels, with red and black striping. Shiny black grill work adorns the top, and freshly applied gold lettering enhances the cab. ...
... eagle clutching the green olive branch in one talon and the black arrows of might in the other, enhancing the center panel of each of the cab doors. If for no other reason, the "Ooohs! " and "Aaahs! " of ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84summer/cabrillo.htm
... Strikingly clothed in black velvet with capes lined in yellow, Cabrillo and his two officers topped their costumes with black hats adorned with long white plumes. Completing the complement were six Spanish sailors, appropriately dressed in ...
... Completing the complement were six Spanish sailors, appropriately dressed in black outfits with white lace collars. They rowed the group from the "caravel" toward the anxiously awaiting shore bound crowd. Then, carrying the Spanish flag, the landing party stepped smartly ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/89winter/history.htm
... was emptied by electric locomotives into the sea, discoloring it black. The ultimate processing produced "blister copper" ingots of 20 2 6 inches, which were exported to Falmouth, England, in the beginning, and later to the United States to ...
... To preserve decorum the company demanded that its directors wear black tail coats to all formal occasions, and to preserve high spirits, three dances were organized each year: New Year's, Carnival Saturday, and Bastille Day (July 14). ...
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Panama-California Exposition Postcard Index
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/index.htm
... GM50 Book Lovers' Shop (black/white, gray back, Expo logo) GM60 Book Lovers' Shop (black/white, gray back, no logo) GM70 Book Lovers' Shop (hand colored, gray ...
... GM390 Painted Desert by Harvey (black/white) GM400 Painted Desert by Harvey (hand colored) GM410 Painted Desert by Harvey (colored with white border) GM420 Painted Desert - real photos GM425 Panama ...
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[PDF] JSDH vol 50 3&4
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/v50-3/bookreviews.pdf
... The fifty one remarkable black and white photographs reproduced in the book will engage all viewers. By the time readers reach page four, they have already encountered four illustrations. All contribute to Deloria's mission, but among ...
... Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America. By Douglas Flamming. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Bibliography, index, 5 maps, notes, and 40 b&w photos. 485 ...
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BALBOA PARK HISTORY
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1935new.htm
... Letter, April 10, 1935, Ben Black, Authorized Agent, Fanchon& Marco, Inc.& Kenneth Thomson, Executive Secretary, Screen Actors Guild, Inc. to California Pacific International Exposition Company, San Diego, Calif. ...
...(signed) Ben Black (signed) Kenneth Thompson We agree to the foregoing. CALIFORNIA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION COMPANY. (signed) Zack J. Farmer (Transcription taken from letter kept ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/94winter/napoleons.htm
..., resilient metal able to withstand the repeated severe shocks of black powder exploding in the breach. A brief description will be helpful in appreciating this famous piece of ordnance. The U.S. piece weighs slightly more than 1200 pounds and was fired with ...
... and was fired with a service charge of 2-1/2 pounds of black cannon powder, giving a range of 1686 yards. It is approximately six feet long, is bored 63.6 inches deep and 4.62 inches in diameter, which is about the diameter of a ...
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Panama-California Exposition, San Diego 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/sdexpo33.htm
... Clipped black acacias in front of buildings imposed order on the riotous blooms. Rose, clematis, jasmine and honeysuckle, growing inside the grass covered patios of the Science and Education Building, entranced passersby ...
... At night the stunning daytime colors gave way to black and white chiaroscuro. Electric lights outlined the silhouette of the Spreckels Organ Pavilion. Along the main avenue, more than 1,000 lamps with pear shaped globes on stately pillars, and bracket lamps ...
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Photo Collection, San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/photocollect/palist.htm
..., school children lined up in black dress, a group in front of dinosaur bones??, Point Loma lighthouse and Theosophical Society, downtown scenes, Tent City in Coronado, hunting party, and people in the clothing ...
... PA 138 Black Oak Mine Photograph Album, ca. 1902. Photographs of buildings, work, and processes at the Black Oak Mine. Also portrait of Alice Mcalmond and man. PA 139 Duchy ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/96summer/cargo.htm
...) of the community while six Chinese males and a single black man employed as a porter represented 1.6 and 0.3 percent respectively of the inhabitants (Figure 1). The makeup of the Hispanic and Anglo American populations differed significantly (Tables 1& ...
... The single black porter constituted 2 percent of the skilled work force, three Chinese cooks made up 5 percent, and the Anglo American population, which constituted only 14 percent of the camp's inhabitants, held ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/72fall/sherman.htm
... Black, San Diego County, California (San Diego, 1913), 11, Pp. 48-52. 3. Born in Sumner, Maine, April 17, 1837, Augusta Barrett ...
... Black, op. cit. 4. The Golden Era (April, 1887), p. 251. 5 San Diego Union, December 15, 1872; 3:2 ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2002-2/filmography.htm
... The Black Sheep (Lubin, May 13, 1916). Coronado. 232. Sons of the Sea (Lubin, May 13, 1916). Coronado. 233. The Green Fairy ( ...
... Black Belt Angels (Showcase Entertainment, 1994). 609. Double Cross (Interglobal Productions, 1994). 610. El Jard del Ed /b> (1994). 611. ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/89summer/sculptors.htm
... Huston commissioned Isabelle to produce a bronze relief portrait of the black scientist. This was installed at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in May of 1931. In 1930, Isabelle visited relatives in California, and despite the growing Depression, decided to move ...
... Graduating in 1914, he wrote the senior play The Black Dragon Mine, which had a Chinese setting. The following year, Porter traveled to New York where he enrolled at the Art Students' League, studying drawing with George Bridgman and sculpture ...
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Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/99fall/justice.htm
... the Black or Latino male who has robbed or raped or murdered someone out of some supposedly biological imperative to do harm to others. While the "prison industrial complex" is largely understood to be ...
... heavily nuanced analysis of race -- particularly the treatment of Black women prisoners -- from the period 1865-1915 (the years immediately following the end of slavery), but does not give much consideration to the likelihood that incarceration rates and patterns for Black ...
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Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2001-4/br-racial.htm
... goes a long way to bringing the experiences and contributions of Black Americans into the mainstream of United States historiography. There are little known stories, such as the absorption of many African Americans into Native American cultures, as well as the better known accounts ...
... American cultures, as well as the better known accounts of Black farmers, cowboys, business owners, entertainers, and Buffalo soldiers. He also has explored the issue of African American freedom in the west, and the long, long struggle for personal ...
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Smythe: History of San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/smythe/2-5.htm
... her sister to the con -fessional, dressed in deep black. Nearly an hour intervened, when the great doors of the mission church opened, the bells rang out a loud, discordant peal, a private signal was run up for us by ...
..., dressed in her usual church costume, which was deep black; where the joining of hands took place towards morning, and, at a later hour, the church ceremonies were per -formed. Breakfast was served with considerable taste, a task ...
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Finding Aids
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/findaid/ac018.htm
... Folder 6 PA1 Album with 218 black andwhite snapshots from 1922. Documents various trips throughout California and San Diego County, including trips Helen Tulloch took with her first husband Leo Hurley to Eureka and Big Bear Lake. Also, ...
... Folder 7 PA2 Album with 40 black andwhite photographic prints, enlargements by Helen's mother Jessie S. Tulloch. Subjects include various family trips and outings throughout California and the West from 1922-1923, the "auto log" and General Sherman ...
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Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/72summer/br-hate.htm
... This study of the Black Legend (the idea that Spaniards are "uniquely cruel, bigoted, tyrannical, obscurantist, lazy, fanatical, greedy, and treacherous" p. 11), may seem a curious ...
... Some readers will find especially illuminating Powell's discussion of how the Black Legend has endured to the present day in the United States through textbooks and popular literature. Thus, this study not only illuminates the Black Legend, but also adds dimension to our understanding ...
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San Diego History Timeline
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/timeline/timeline1.htm
... Local events are in black~ World and national events are in gray Early~ 1760~ 1780~ 1800~ 1820~ 1840~ 1860~ 1880~ 1900~ 1920~ 1940~ 1960~ 1980 ...
... Photo of Cosmopolitan Hotel in 1872 shows Seeley's Black Hawk livery stable at left. 1869 Alonzo Horton completes a wharf at the end of 5th Avenue, at a cost of about $45,000. On March 24, Horton sells $ ...
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Pourade: The Glory Years
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/glory/glorychapter8.htm
... It was "Black Friday." Tom Scott, the president of the Texas and Pacific Railroad, was in Europe. He had made arrangements with the leading financial houses of Paris to market $54,000,000 ...
... For more than a month after "Black Friday" San Diegans went on believing that Tom Scott and the Texas and Pacific had survived the financial disaster. The San Diego Union's telegraph stories told of Scott's success in placing the Texas ...
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Pourade: Time of the Bells
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/time/timechapter10.htm
... Their black hair, cut off to a length equal to half their height, floated over their shoulders. They came in a crowd to beg of us copper rings or pieces of money; and ...
..., he found the men large and well formed, thick black beards disclosing their Spanish origin, "but they do not reap all the advantage from their figure; the custom of being always on horseback causes them to acquire an awkward shape. They ...
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Pourade: The Explorers
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/explorers/explorerschapter6.htm
... The Dominicans or Black Friars, called the Order of Preachers of the Preaching Brothers, had a part in the last phases of mission building in Baja California. This order was founded in the 13th Century and ...
... The Society of Jesus - Jesuits or Black Robes - was founded by Ignatius Loyola, a Basque of noble birth, who lived from 1491 to 1556. Unlike the Franciscans and Dominicans, which were mendicant orders, the first followers ...
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Photo Collection, San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/photocollect/clist1.htm
... The collection consists of 2x3 and 4x5 black and white and color negatives and approximately 1000 small prints. Images include individual and group portraits, residences, businesses, street scenes, churches, weddings, sports, clubs, political or ...
..., funerals, weddings, Masonic/Eastern Star organizations and Black Muslim groups. Images of businesses include furniture stores, grocery stores, fashion modeling, auto supply stores, mortuaries, barbershops, hotels, upholstery shops, liquor stores, restaurants and other ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/68april/tradition.htm
... Below the knob were holes through which was drawn a black silk cord with tassles. This was the new mayor's symbol of his authority. From then on Juan Mar during his term of office, never appeared in public without this cane. ...
... his powdered wig, carrying his cane, and with his black robes trailing in the sandy streets, the little mayor patrolled his quaint community, exhorting the people in the name of the law -and on the basis of ordinances enacted by the city ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/69summer/part4.htm
... marked route) is (31) Acacia melanoxylon, the Black Acacia. This is a large, vigorous tree which is sometimes called the tree without leaves; what seem to be leaves are actually phyllodes, or leaf like extensions of the stems. ...
... Across the wide path from the Black Acacia is (32) Quercus agrifolia, Hollyleaf or Coast Live Oak. This native of San Diego County and northern Baja California belongs to the family Fagaceae. A spreading, round topped ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/82spring/oral.htm
... But they didn't have the number of black students that we have today. The great influx of blacks into southern California came with the war in 1942. But some of the better athletes in those days were black students, such ...
... But some of the better athletes in those days were black students, such as Bert Richey. He was a black ball player and a great, great athlete. He went on to USC and made an outstanding record for himself. Getting ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/95fall/moreno.htm
... Pipe& Supply Company, she sat with her heavy, black typewriter and wrote a guidebook on how to organize labor unions. She wanted others to avoid her mistakes. Slowly her project turned into an autobiographical narrative of her labor union activities. 33 ...
... On September 10, a trim Moreno in a black dress and white gloves took the witness stand and faced Senator Jack B. Tenney's Committee, a statewide precursor to the national Mccarthy led witch hunt of radicals. 42 The San Francisco ...
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History Societies & Museums-San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/links/oldtown.htm
History museums and historical societies in the San Diego area, includes Old Town and Balboa Park.
... Altamirano Pedrorena House Black Hawk Smithy& Stable Casa de Bandini Casa de Estudillo Casa de Machado y Silva Casa de Machado y Stewart Derby Pendleton House First San Diego Courthouse Light Freeman House Heritage Park Victorian Village Johnson ...
... Daily 10-4 Black Hawk Smithy& Stable J.B. Hinton launched this business in the 1860s, providing blacksmith services, coach repairs, feed and accommodations for horses and teamsters. Blacksmithing and other demonstrations. Hours ...
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History Societies & Museums-San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/links/societies.htm
... Black Hawk Smithy& Stable Old Town State Historic Park Bonita Museum& Cultural Center Bonita Historical Society 4355 Bonita Road Bonita, CA 91902 (619) 267-5141 The Bonita Historical Society is dedicated ...
... Gaslamp Black Historical Society 908 Market Street San Diego, CA 92101 (619) 685-7215 Heritage of the Americas Museum Cuyamaca College 12110 Cuyamaca College Drive West El Cajon, CA 92019 (619) ...
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California Pacific Exposition
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/35expoh4.htm
... Mae applauded the "little woman," wearing a clinging black dress and a large brimmed hat, who swivelled her body into an hourglass shape and said, "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" at Midget Village. Upon ...
... Amphitheater, Shinto priests, wearing red robes and tight fitting black hats, venerated the spirits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. In the afternoon, musicians played Japanese flutes, guitars, and drums as 600 young women in flowing kimonos, 50 ...
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Pourade: Gold in the Sun
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/gold/goldchapter3.htm
... He had noted the presence of black tourmalines but not of colored ones. In that same year Henry Hamilton recognized colored tourmaline on a slope of Thomas Mountain at an altitude of 6500 feet in the San Jacinto Range in Riverside ...
... edge drops off into a deep rock gorge which runs into Black Canyon, through some of the most spectacular scenery in the county, and at its northeast edge rises to a peak that stands 1000 feet above the great Warner's valley. One of ...
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Panama-California Exposition, San Diego 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/sdexpo39.htm
... cliff house , whose walls looked as though they had been blackened by centuries of smoke, harkened back to the prehistoric Anasazi , who are believed to be the ancestors of Hopi and Pueblo Indians. The Navajo hogans were divided into summer and winter varieties ...
... Maria invented her well known blackon-black pottery with matte designs in 1919. Crescencio Martinez, a member of the group, was a talented painter in water colors. Considering that the Indian population of San Ildefonso in 1915 was ...
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Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1956.htm
... "Kismet" may put series in black despite the heavy losses sustained while "The California Story" was in progress. August 28, 1956, San Diego Union, A-11:7-8. Ferde Grofe to direct Symphony in ...
... San Diego Zoo - black Persian lamb on exhibit (illus.). October 28, 1956, San Diego Union, A-29:1-3. International exhibit plan studied for 1957 Fiesta here. October 30 ...
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Pourade: Time of the Bells
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/time/timechapter11.htm
... the con -tinent, visiting the Grand Canyon and the Black Canyon, wandering as far north as the Yellowstone, and back to Santa Fe, and into Mexico. At Santa Fe, we pick up a journey of the Patties and six companions ...
... Their lips were black, and their parched mouths wide open. Their unmoving posture and their sunken eyes so resembled death, that I ran in a fright to my father, thinking him, for a moment ...
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Pourade: Time of the Bells
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/time/timechapter9.htm
... California were of south Spanish stock -- first the reddish black grape of Los Angeles, rich in juice, and then the fruiter, bluish black Sonoma, which he said, yields a lighter wine. Other varieties were introduced as time went on ...
... He was dressed in black with a swallowtail coat and tall fur hat. Thus there was every indication he was some kind of a spy. However, he managed to establish friendly relations and eventually, in September ...

Pourade: The Explorers
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/explorers/explorerschapter10.htm
..., which ran a short way in the midst of some blackberry bushes, where we found another village which had only six women. We saw that they had some pots and jugs of baked clay, well made. We called this place the Spring ...
... travel we descended to another very green valley, with good black soil, and from this we entered still another, very green and with good land well covered with grass. In the last valley we made camp near a hill which has two springs ...
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Pourade: The Silver Dons
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/silver/silverchapter13.htm
... some were pure white, others black, still others of a lead color; or fancifully striped with tricolors, or with the bow red, blue, or green, while the rest of the craft would be of a ...
... Another inlet is named after the whaling ship Black Warrior, a familiar sight of old San Diego, which was lost trying to force an entrance. An article printed in the Boston Journal of Commerce, and preserved in the Whaling Museum ...

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/74winter/br-dustbowl.htm
... in the South's "Black Belt" were congested more than one million Black tenant farmers whose estimated annual per capita income averaged fewer than thirtyeight dollars; while in the Pacific West the United States Department of Agriculture counted ...

Panama-California Exposition 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/cardlist/list820.htm
... (woman in black dress on Cabrillo bridge; tower under construction) (man and automobile in front of Foreign Arts Building) (woman in black dress, woman and girl in white dress in ...

Panama-California Exposition 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/cardlist/list440.htm
..."Five Months Before the Opening" obliterated by black bar on front (ED 7-8-1915) ad overprinted on back "Why Not? The Orpheum Show / Tonight!..Spreckels Theatre" "Santa Fe - The Expo Line ...
... ad overprinted on back in black: "Mrs Simpson invites yourself and your friends to the opening of her circulating library, card and novelty shop at her new store Holland Hotel Building" Exposition Home| Postcard Tour| ...

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/73spring/br-racism.htm
..., there burst forth like an earthquake a revolutionary protest of Black rage. Since the Watts riot of 1965 there has been a stready stream of militant expressions of severe discontent by other minorities in California. The shooting of Ruben Salazar, who was covering ...
..., which contained trite headnotes and gave virtually no coverage to Black or Chicano experiences. Another strength of this reader is its avoidance of shrill polemics, both in the articles included as well as the overall editorial tone. Yet it does not whitewash ...

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/75spring/letters.htm
... Black Prejudice in San Diego, 1866," published in 1973. Professor de Graaf, who was discussing the writing of Western Black History ( Pacific Historical Review, February, 1975), ...

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/75summer/br-blackjack.htm
... Black Jack Davidson, A Cavalry Commander on the Western Frontier: The Life of General John W. Davidson By Homer K. Davidson. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1974 ...
... The author believes that discrimination and the little credit given the black regiments, contributed to the lack of recognition accorded his grandfather in the post war period. Detached service and sick leave kept Davidson from joining his new regiment until early in 1872. He ...

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/77spring/losangeles.htm
... author of articles on Western Black History, including "Recognition, Racism and Reflections on the Writing of Western Black History," Pacific Historical Review, February, 1975. As Los Angeles approaches its bicentennial, scholars ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/86spring/dogholes.htm
... two letters by the captains of the whaleships Rebecca Adams and Black Warrior on the practicality of San Diego as a port for repairs and transshipping of otter skins and whale oil. 21 In 1856, the Eagle returned, followed by the brig Sarah Macfarland ...
... revealed English Staffordshire ceramics, bone and china buttons, "black glass" ale bottles, cheap clay pipes, gin bottles, beads, and slate. 37 The Twofold Bay station at New South Wales, Australia, did not reveal the squire ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/57april/firing.htm
... Black powder, varying in amounts according to the strength of the anvil and the explosion desired, was poured into the bottom of the anvil on the ground. Some anvil firers then placed a ...
... Into this round hole was poured enough black powder to form a firing train. Then the blacksmith heated a long, thin iron rod red hot in his forge, the men charging the anvil stood to one side, and the ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/58july/oaks.htm
... all over the San Diego area, but it is no Black Forest. Bertram B. Moore recalls that, during the construction of the present road out to the old lighthouse, no stumps were turned up. Where stumps only occur here and there ...
... in 1834, when he first arrived, in the whaler Black Warrior, and such was still the case when he returned in 1852 to be local representative for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. The reporter or the captain must have been building up a ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/64july/hoffman.htm
... pills and the yellow ointment, the red elixir and the black balsam. Without these, no doctor could hope to gain a following a hundred years ago. Confident and elated, he made his way past the comatose Mexican and asked for a room ...
... pills and the yellow ointment, the red elixir and the black balsam. He needed more of everything, particularly smallpox vaccine because smallpox was a constant threat. Back he went to San Francisco, and back he came to San Diego. Now the ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/81spring/blackimages.htm
... Black Pioneers in San Diego 1880 - 1920 Back to the Article San Diego's Black Pioneers: A Statement of Who We Are Page 92. Page 94. Amos and Cynthia ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/74fall/hortonplaza.htm
..., chosen for his resemblance to Cabrillo, was dressed in black velvet knee breeches, broad brimmed hat with long plumes. He stood on the Spanish caravel flying the orange and red of Aragon and Castile, as it came proudly up the channel to ...
... of two tribes, the Luisenos, whose bodies were painted black and white, and the Dieguenos in war paint of red and white. Each head was covered with a dress of eagle feathers and their faces were horribly painted. These Indians had set ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/76summer/naval.htm
... about their business, scrubbing down the ship which had been blackened by the delivery of almost 300 tons of coal the previous day. The crew had to be disappointed on this Friday morning, for on July 19, the Bennington had completed a rough ...
... his friend retrieved several men from the water, including a black man Bushnell identified as J. H. Turpin. Turpin was a black, but stated he swam ashore unassisted. Bushnell, "There Came Upon Me A Day of Trouble," ...
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/77winter/blochman.htm
... 12th and C Streets -with no scalpel in his little black bag -he borrowed his driver's penknife to open a dying man's chest to massage the heart. Dr. Brust taught the first aid courses, introduced in San Diego by his mother ...
... Black, History of San Diego County, California (Chicago: S. and Clarke, 1913), p. 44. 8. Letter, Lawrence G. Blochman to Phyllis Roos ...
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Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/89spring/br-hoover.htm
... and fortunes of the three principal groups who came together in Black Canyon. Owners of the famous Six Companies consortium financed and organized the project, and profited so well from it and subsequent federal contracts, that they went on to international fame and fortune ...
... individuals and their families, none of whom secured anything from Black Canyon beyond a bit of pride and a sense of survival. Stevens wants very much for the Hoover Dam adventure to be an uplifting, romantic battle between man and nature wherein the ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/81summer/index.htm
... Black Los Angeles: The Maturing of the Ghetto, 1940-1950 By E. Frederick Anderson. Reviewed by Theodore Kornweibel, Jr. Black Los Angeles: The Maturing of the Ghetto, 1940-1950 By ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84summer/capps.htm
... Black, History of San Diego County, Vol. 2, (Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913), pp. 403-404. 5. Black, History, pp ...
... Black, History, 403-404. 16. Ibid. 17. San Diego Union, June 7 through November 7, 1911, September 22, 1966. Shelley J. Higgins and ...

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