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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), suggested that studies such as Schwartz's "have substantiated the prejudiced nature of much of the frontier population." ...

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/75summer/br-blackjack.htm
...Black Jack Davidson, A Cavalry Commander on the Western Frontier:...
...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....

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/97spring/southbay.htm
...Through tales and photos in black and white, South Bay Monogatari highlights development of the Nikkei (persons of Japanese ancestry living in the US) community emergent in the South Bay region of San Diego County, particularly around Chula Vista and National City, since the 1890s....
...An isolated and unexplored reference (p. 102) to a racial pecking order elevating Nisei soldiers to a privileged position over black soldiers vis a vis white GIs is another opportunity missed....

History Societies & Museums-San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/links/societies.htm
History museums and historical societies in the San Diego area, includes Old Town and Balboa Park.
...Black Hawk Smithy & Stable Old Town State Historic Park ...
...Gaslamp Black Historical Society 908 Market Street San Diego, CA 92101 (619) 685-7215 ...
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Antony di Gesu
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/digesu/digesu2.htm
Photographic portraits by Antony di Gesu
...White shirt, white background. Black suit, black background....

Panama-California Expo, San Diego 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/sdexpo14.htm
...Maria invented her well-known black-on-black pottery with matte designs in 1919. Crescencio Martinez, a member of the group, was a talented painter in water colors....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/86spring/dogholes.htm
...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 and ships Mogul and Clark of London. ...
...Archaeological excavations in New Zealand revealed English Staffordshire ceramics, bone and china buttons, "black glass" ale bottles, cheap clay pipes, gin bottles, beads, and slate. 37 ...
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Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/89spring/br-hoover.htm
...Stevens interwines the experiences and fortunes of the three principal groups who came together in Black Canyon....
...The author's best moments in this book are when he gives names and faces to some of these individuals and their families, none of whom secured anything from Black Canyon beyond a bit of pride and a sense of survival. ...

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/94winter/br-destruction.htm
...Reviewed by Gerald Horn, Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara....
...Those concerned about black-brown issues and/or Asian and African-American conflict in San Diego County and elsewhere should examine this chapter....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/94winter/juandiego.htm
...To a friend she wrote, "there is not in all the Century of Dishonor, so black a chapter as the story of the Mission Indians . . . driven off their lands like foxes and wolves." 18 She even volunteered to serve as a special-agent to report on the condition of the native peoples of Southern California. ...
...A heavy-featured, strong-jawed, th'ck-nostriled, broad-browed, coarse-lipped, keen-eyed, self-indulgent face, crowned with a head of coal-black hair, dominated a strong, well-set, muscular body of some five and a half feet in height....
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Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1939.htm
...July 7, 1939, San Diego Union, II, 1:5. Rare animals from Taronga Zoological Park, Sydney, Australia in ship's cargo for San Diego Zoo; the Limerick, first vessel to call here direct from Australia in more than two decades; shipment consists of a Tasmanian devil, eight tiger snakes, eight black snakes, 10 water dragons, three rock lizards, 12 blue-tongued lizards, six long-necked turtles and two...
...At the end of the regular class period they must produce black-and-white results of their study....

Pourade: The Silver Dons
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/silver/silverchapter14.htm
...They feel mighty bad and I hope the result may physic them until they are purged thoroughly of their Black Republicanism . . ....
...I have all those fellows here spotted who voted the Black Republican ticket and shall see that they are hereafter kept from . . . having any voice in our Democratic meetings....

Pourade: The Silver Dons
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/silver/silverchapter3.htm
...Fitch and other foreigners, were George Nidever and Allen Light, the Negro deserter from the Pilgrim, who was known as "Black Steward."...
...The next day five canoes of otter hunters, two Americans in each ca-noe, including George Nidever and "Black Steward," sought refuge aboard with $4000 worth of furs....

Pourade: Time of the Bells
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/time/timechapter8.htm
...Its jet black or deep velvety brown fur cost the lives of hundreds of men, the loss of many ships, and brought nations to the brink of war....
...a "black sailor" at his own request, and then stopped at San Buenaventura, to leave an Irish sailor who liked what he had seen of California....

Photo Collection, San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/photocollect/clist2.htm
...Organized by subject. This collection consists of glass lantern slides'many hand-colored although some are black and white....
...The collection contains 4x5 and 8x10 black and white negatives and color transparencies....
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/97winter/soundleg.htm
...11. Jack Hinton came to San Diego in 1858. For a number of years he owned and operated the Black Hawk Livery in Old Town, but he eventually sold his business to another Old Towner, Albert Seeley in the early 1870s. ...
...18. Capt. J. C. Bogart first visited San Diego in 1834 aboard the Black Warrior....

Pourade: The Explorers
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/explorers/explorerschapter10.htm
...After about one more league of 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....
...Their chief made us a harangue, and when it was concluded they sat down as though they had always known us. One of the heathen came smoking a pipe of black clay, well made....

Pourade: The Glory Years
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/glory/glorychapter15.htm
...Other men-of-war followed suit. The crowds on the beach gasped in wonder as the thousands of electric lights against a black velvet sky revealed the fleet anchored close in, bow on stern....
...Though in his late eighties, he liked to don his black frock coat and high silk hat and go down to the waterfront and meet the steamers, just as he had done in the days when the railroad barons were arriving and departing and promising so much, and welcome the passengers to "our beautiful San Diego." ...

Pourade: Gold in the Sun
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/gold/goldchapter4.htm
...A citizen was standing on the nearby Commercial wharf when he heard a muffled explosion and saw a large column of black smoke rise high above the masts and then envelop the ship completely....
...The black smoke was succeeded by clouds of steam, through which he could see running figures in various stages of undress, leaping into the water to escape the scalding vapor....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/69winter/part1.htm
...26. BLACK HAWK LIVERY STABLE Operated by Johnny Hinton....
...Hinton was the proprietor of the Black Hawk Livery Stable....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/71fall/davis.htm
...Samuel F. Black, in his San Diego County, California, Vol. 1, page 219, (1913) wrote ...
...According to Black, the building was not moved until after the county offices were removed to New San Diego, which was in 1871, thus contradicting Smythe's statement that it was moved in 1855, and further confirming the photographic evidence....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/74summer/alliance.htm
...Every vare in dish happy little blace, at all de cornersh, in all de shtores, in all de offiches you shee de beautiful cuivelinear nosesh, de arching lips and lovely black air of de shildren of Zion....
...While this hoax is in the style of the native humor of the period, with its exaggeration and outlandishness, the "letter" engenders the spectre of a crude and greedy people with "de beautiful cuivelinear nosesh, de arching lips and lovely black air. . . ."...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/76summer/naval.htm
...19. In 1961, Asa M. Bushnell claimed to have been rowing near the gunboat when she blew up. Bushnell and 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....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/77fall/mccoy.htm
...Samuel F. Black, San Diego County, 2 vols....
...6. Black, San Diego County, 2:25, The City and County of San Diego, p. 102, An Illustrated History of Southern California. p. 148. ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/78fall/garrisons.htm
...Standard black hats and black silk scarves were issued, as well as blue jackets with red collars, cuffs, and lapels....
...There were only two mestizos; seven were classed as coyotes, in California usually meaning persons of one-quarter Spanish ancestry, and either three-quarters Indian, or half Indian and one-quarter black....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/80winter/police.htm
...Page 44. Both patrolman and horse were nearing the end of police service when this photograph was taken of Alfred D. Schnepp and his mount Black Dan....
...Although retired they remained together on Schnepp's ranch in Escondido until Black Dan's death....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/80spring/derby.htm
...Of Derby's three children, Daisy, a noted beauty, married William H. Black, became a Washington socialite - and committed suicide when her little son Roger was four years old. 52 Mary Townsend, or Mamie, as her family called her, died, unmarried, at the age of thirty-five. 53 Derby's only son, George McClelland, graduated first in his class at West Point and had a distinguished...
...52. Interview with Helen Gray. Mrs. Gray is the daughter of Roger Derby Black. ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/83spring/riviera.htm
...and international conventions were often held at the Riviera's monumental ballroom; the Presidents of Mexico were always received at the hotel; and a tradition of gentility which belonged to Ensenada alone, among the cities of Baja California, led the way to beautiful concerts, literary gatherings, and the famous "Black and White Ball," organized every year in the month of August by the wives of...
...One night, in 1956, precisely the night on which the "Black and White Ball" was held at the hotel, the curtain came down....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84winter/war.htm
...Captain ("Black Jack") Henry Naglee and 114 recruits detached from Companies C and D of the First Regiment of the New York Volunteers arrived at La Paz on March 22 on the storeship Isabella....
...Some objected to "Black Jack" Naglee's stern discipline and harsh punishments....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/86fall/heilbron.htm
...3. Samuel F. Black, San Diego County California, Volume 11 (Chicago:...
...Black's San Diego . . ., states he left the family in "very comfortable circumstances," while Heilbron's History. . ., said Mrs. Heilbron was "burdened with the responsibility of ten young children, and very little means, . . ."...

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/91fall/temecula.htm
...13. Esther Boulton Black, Rancho Cucamonga and Dona Merced (Redlands, CA:...
...46. Black, Rancho Cucamonga, 239. ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/96spring/cargo.htm
...He filed his first claim, the Grand Mogul, in November 1883. He soon filed a series of additional claims that included the Little Mary in January 1884 and the Black Butte, Three Sisters, Little Pete, Alice Mary, and Carbonate in March of the same year. 32 Assays of ore from the Black Butte were valued at $130 per ton....
...In the Black Butte excavation had exposed a body of ore 40 feet thick and 600 feet in length....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/98fall/oz.htm
...W.W. Denslow drew its severe, monotonous landscape in gray, in contrast to his color pictures of Oz, 1 and the 1939 MGM film mimicked his technique by presenting Kansas in black-and-white and Oz in color....
...Baum located Trot's house on these bluffs, which stand above Black's Beach....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/2001-3/overview.htm
...Ex-Detroit, Nashville, and New York City portrait painter William Thurston Black (circa 1810 -1893), was a local resident by 1885. 4 His influence appears to have been limited and his fame rests upon his portrait of modern San Diego founder Alonzo Horton, now in the collection of the San Diego Historical Society....
...4. For biographical background on William Thurston Black see:...

House of Hospitality Building
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/bpbuildings/hospitality.htm
...Extant black and white photographs do not show the extent of the lighting on the Plaza de Panama....
...Black and white photographs of the interiors of the Sala de Oro, the Flamingo Room, upstairs loggias, and downstairs salons give only glimpses of their furnishings and say nothing about the colors....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/67october/began.htm
...In 1602 Sebastian Viz-ca noted that the men went "naked and be-smeared with black and white paint . . . wearing many feathers."...
...The black-smith toiled long hours repairing guns, sharpening swords, and manu-facturing the favorite weapon of Cali-fornians, the makeshift lance....
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Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/94summer/rocle.htm
...In an unidentified clipping in the Rocle scrapbook, Katharine Morrison Kahle (McClinton) wrote "A restrained handling of grays and pale yellows, together, with black, is particularly notable in this picture." ...
...Mrs. Rocle's work evidences a decorative use of her palette, which is especially noticeable in her painting, 'Concarneau Market,' which depicts a group of peasant women, in their black frocks topped by glistening white coiffes, amid stands of brilliant orange carrots and other equally colorful vegetables and fruits. ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/97summer/lilla.htm
...24. Marston was referring here to the stock market crash on September 3, 1873, otherwise known as "Black Friday."...
...25. Following "Black Friday" and the collapse of financing for railroads a long depression set in across the country....

Balboa Park, Federal Building
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/bpbuildings/federal.htm
...The Indians were painted in red hues with other colors being black and white....
...If it cannot be proven that colors can be definitely identified from a black and white photograph and no color photo exists, staff recommends that since the mural could not be accurately reproduced, the applicant should not be required to provide it and the original clear glass clerestory is acceptable. ...

Smythe: History of San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/smythe/6-2.htm
...The central section was completed and the building publicly dedicated on May 1, 1899, with a program arranged by President Black and the board of trustees....
...The faculty consists of Samuel T. Black, president, who has served in that capacity ever since the school was opened;...

Smythe: History of San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/smythe/1-1.htm
...Captain Bogart first visited San Diego in the Black Warrior in 1834, 39 years ago. ...
...For the most part, they were naked, but their skins were daubed with black and white....

Finding Aids
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/findaid/ac128.htm
...OP16872/8 El Cerrito Black and Decker and Alumiwall displays. 1948? ...
...OP16872/9 El Cerrito Black and Decker portable electric tools. 1948? ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/87fall/justice.htm
...He walked up the stairs where the guard adjusted the rope then put a black hood over his head....
...Yet there is little doubt that in the nineteenth-century the indigent ethnic - Chinese, black, Hispanic, or Indian - had little chance of obtaining an appeal....

San Diego History Center
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/online_resources/knapp.html
...According to Lydia, he was a "tall Spanish type" and wore a heavy black beard by special dispensation....
...Horton, with his long flowing beard, dressed in a black frock coat and silk top hat, became San Diego's official greeter. ...

Balboa Park, San Diego
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/bpbuildings/fordbldg.htm
...This statement referred to the painterly "Maxfield Parrish" blue lighting of the building in 1936, not to the more precise, black-white sculptural treatment in 1935. To Teague, color and lighting were not ends, but means of attracting attention to more fundamental shapes and rhythms....
...The painting of the National Geographic Balloon Explorer II's twelve and one-half mile ascent, November 11, 1935, from the Black Hill in South Dakota on the wall of the south mezzanine lent interest to the actual gondola and instruments immediately beneath....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/64april/padres.htm
...After supper' they had lengthy discussions by the campfire, Father Ubach interspersing his comments with puffs on his thin black cigars and Rev....
...In company, he was cordial, sometimes humorous, but always impressive, and his black hair and beard were always noted....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/93fall/women.htm
..."If they patronized the black market, that was terrible, if they cheated on the rationing, that was awful.I...
...The first blackout was on December 7. Others followed days later when Japanese aircraft carriers were reported off the coast, followed with a report of a Japanese submarine near Point Loma. 53 Blackouts, later replaced with dimouts, took place until February of 1943. 54 Harriet Daum recalled "everyone putting up black, dark shades on their houses." 55 Johnston remembered walking past an ice-cream parlor...

Journal Index 1999
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/index/1999.htm
...Black, Samuel F., 45:142 Black, W. Thurston, 45:100 ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/95winter/gardens.htm
...Photographs, black and white and color. 323 pages. $39.95....

Donal Hord
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/hord/morning.htm
Donal Hord, Donald Hord, San Diego, History
...Hord began his last monumental work in black diorite in 1951, but did not complete the figure until 1956. This larger than life-size sculpture depicts a young man wearing a type of pants used in Mexico, tied at the ankles so insects and snakes couldn't crawl up his legs....

California-Pacific Expo, San Diego 1935-36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/cardlist/anon5.htm
..."California Pacific International Exposition San Diego" typeset in caps in white border on front some with artistic hand-printed subtitle glossy black and white photos on EKKP paper ...

California-Pacific Expo, San Diego 1935-36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/cardlist/anonfantasy.htm
...(black and white sketch of aerial view of Balboa Park-Ford Building in left foreground has spiral design) Exposition tours / Map / History / Postcard index ...

California-Pacific Expo, San Diego 1935-36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/cardlist/angreen.htm
...Color ranges from dark green to near black Some from photographs and some entirely art, such as this rendering of the Ford Building Subtitles and "San Diego Exposition" (SDE) in caps on front in white border...

California-Pacific Expo, San Diego 1935-36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/cardlist/sunny.htm
..."Pub. by Sunny Scenes, Inc." or "Pub. by Sunny Scenes, Inc., Winter Park, Fla." as divider in black on back of most ...

California-Pacific Expo, San Diego 1935-36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/cardlist/sirigo2.htm
...Set #2 includes 20 small (5x7 cm) black & white glossy photos in a gold cardboard mailing packet Not true postcards, these are identical (except for lack of numbers and occasional minor cropping) to Sirigo's real-photo postcards...

California-Pacific Expo, San Diego 1935-36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/cardlist/sirigo1.htm
...Set #1 includes small (3 inch x 4 1/2 inch) black & white glossy photos, with blank back, in a gold cardboard mailing packet Not true postcards, many of these are identical (except for lack of numbers and occasional minor cropping) to Sirigo's real-photo postcards "Sirigo" on front with subtitles ...

California-Pacific Expo, San Diego 1935-36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/cardlist/santafe.htm
...Black and white real photos of model trains and scenes Back:...

California-Pacific Expo, San Diego 1935-36
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/calpac/cardlist/midget.htm
...Trinidad Rodriguez / Smallest Woman in the World / Midget Village / CPIE SD 1935 same photo as above; white border; writing in black at center bottom ...

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/95spring/destruction.htm
...Those concerned about black-brown issues and/or Asian and African-American conflict in San Diego county and elsewhere should examine this chapter. ...

Samuel Parsons Jr and Balboa Park
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/parsons/parsons14.htm
..."In a general way, I think, I can say the trees which will be used will be the eucalyptus, pepper, pines, black acacias, and figs....

Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1994.htm
...Memorial to honor black soldiers....

Balboa Park Research-Amero
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/amero/notes-1975.htm
...Building the theater will displace black acacias, but it is planned to replace twice the trees that must be removed for construction." ...
...Mr. Larry Black, architect, presented his proposed design for the subject improvements....
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Pourade: The Silver Dons
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/silver/silverchapter15.htm
...Shares of ownership were sold for as low as $315. The rancho was not finally patented to the heirs until 1871. When it came time to die, Dona Juliana Osuna instructed that for the wake her body was to be dressed in a black or blue wool dress and be stretched out on the hard earth instead of in bed or on a table....

Pourade: The Silver Dons
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/silver/silverchapter5.htm
...He was clad in a black velvet English hunting coat, black velvet trousers cut off at the knees, with white drawers showing, and wore long, clanking spurs....

Pourade: Time of the Bells
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/time/timeprologue.htm
...The old adobe walls and buildings have sunk back into the ground, and green grass and black asphalt now hide all traces of the graves of forgotten soldiers and settlers who died in a lonely and at times unfriendly land. ...

Lantern Slide Collection
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/collections/lantern/index.htm
...Each slide started as a black and white positive image on a glass base....

Panama-California Expo, San Diego 1915
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/sdexpo16.htm
...The Lily Pond At night the stunning daytime colors gave way to black and white chiaroscuro....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/97winter/haida.htm
...Argillite, a black stone used for carving, was found naturally near the Haida's home....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/97winter/whiteness.htm
...Viewers in Harlem cheered during outdoor screenings of Johnson's 1910 victory over James J. Jeffries; despite attempts to keep this fight film away from African-American audiences, clandestine showing were often mounted in black neighborhoods....

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/97fall/cass.htm
...Shortly after his confirmation the Secretary became totally embroiled in the Black Hawk War....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/95winter/luna.htm
...He was Black and spoke Spanish, because he played in Mexico for a long time as did Theolic Smith and Quincy Trouppe....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/95winter/west.htm
...Get money. No speak English." They'd hit him and he would laugh, "Me no get black and blue."...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/95winter/jensen.htm
...One day, Del Ballinger and I weren't playing and we got some of Cookie's [Trainer Les Cook] black cord that he used to lace up gloves....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/95winter/starr.htm
...But 1947 was the year Jackie Robinson came up. And I got to thinking, "What would happen if I searched out and found some capable black player?"...

Pourade: The Glory Years
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/glory/postoffices.htm
...Bernardo La Mesa Potrero Black Mountain La Presa Poway ...

Pourade: The Glory Years
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/glory/glorychrono.htm
...1873 "Black Friday" stock panic wipes out Texas & Pacific Railroad. ...

Pourade: Gold in the Sun
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/pourade/gold/goldchapter13.htm
...The approach to the gorge from Jacumba rounds a conical black lava hill and follows the green bed of Carrizo Creek, passing Arsenic Spring, Lone Tiger Spring and Camp Sizzle Spring. ...

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/85summer/br-lost.htm
...That history, however, is not exclusive to Chicanos, and to lump Chicanos and Anglos alike into black-and-white images is to do a disservice to the many peoples and cultures who have settled in the Southwest and tried to make it a better place....

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/85fall/br-hoteldel.htm
...They range from old black and whites to modern color pictures and they are a visual and historical treat....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/55january/info.htm
...Considering John G. Capron's fame as a stage-driver, the Capron carriage black would be most appropriate....

Where California Began
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/wcb/wcb5.htm
...The untimely failure of the great railroad speculator Jay Cooke, and the Black Friday panic, discouraged the foreign investors upon whom all such developments depended....

Where California Began
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/books/wcb/wcb1.htm
...In 1602 Sebastian Vizcaino noted that the men went "naked and besmeared with black and white paint . wearing many feathers."...

San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/56january/return104.htm
..."Daddy!" cries Jimmy, "What is that big, black monster?" ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/99fall/cavebaja.htm
...The San Francisco style contains the large, vertically half-black and half-red, human figures ("monos") that are the best known of the Great Mural elements....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/57january/steamer.htm
...He would watch through long black binoculars for a wisp of smoke to appear over Point Loma....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/69winter/part1b.htm
...26. Black Hawk Livery Stable 73. Casa de Jose Antonio Serrano ...

Book Review
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/99fall/cuyamacas.htm
...For example, "Community Spirit," a detailed, fascinating essay in which Fetzer might have used diverse natural communities as a metaphor for diverse human communities, or mused about the complexity that is denied us in a world driven by black and white issues, concludes only by commenting that he resides in the best of three local "natural communities." ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/57october/better.htm
...On the morning following the great dinner at the hotel, the shores of Coronado Beach are black with spectators as a cigar-shaped airship, one hundred feet long by twenty feet wide, leaves its berth and rises to a height of seven thousand feet....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/57october/life.htm
...The next morning after you left I was at the Black smith shop and mised the anvill thought Some one had taken it but happened to think where Mr. Geddes was diggin I went there and throwed some dirt away and found it I did not see him put it there Concequently I put in another place . . ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/58april/store.htm
...Out on the back porch was a barrel which contained black molasses....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/58july/west.htm
...Axles and bolsters were made of tough hickory, and the hubs from black or sour gum, a fibrous wood with high resistance to splitting....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/58october/oldtown.htm
...It is true that good cloth lasted longer sometimes than those who wore it. A man had one good suit of black broadcloth that went into the grave with him....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/60january/histories.htm
...Black, Samuel F.: San Diego County, California, 1913. ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/60july/campo.htm
...The smallest flour sack weighed fifty pounds, so a clerk in those days was a real clerk, weighing, tying up packages, measuring cloth, kerosene, and black powder. ...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/61october/kettle.htm
...Wheels were red, striped in gold-leaf, and the boiler was shining black, with a fancy, nickle-plated smokestack....

San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/61october/trouble.htm
...We were not much more than fifty feet off her port side, amidships, when her boilers exploded with a deep, muffled roar; steel gratings flew to mast-head height, and steam and black smoke began pouring from her ventillators....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/64october/dietary.htm
.... That the State of the Blood, in the common Sea-scurvy, is of this Nature, appears from the stinking Breath of the Sick, their rather corroded Gums, high-coloured foetid Urine, sordid Ulcerts, black, blue and brown spots, and Eruptions on the Skin, frequent feverish Heats, foul Tongues, bilious and bloody Dysenteries, which more or less attend it. Now it is also well known, that...

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/65october/cannon.htm
...Additionally, black powder was used which is relatively slow in detonating when compared to modern cordite or smokeless powder....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/69winter/part5.htm
...But she remembered many details of the funeral; that it was a rainy day in February, and that eight black horses drew the hearse up the steep grade to the Mission Hills Cemetery....

Journal of San Diego History
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/69winter/part2.htm
...Isidora,Juan's youngest daughter, described by Lt. John McHenry Hollings worth as "the most perfect coquette I ever saw," leaned so far over the balcony to watch the procession of the American Black Dragoons, sent to protect the California missions, that she fell from the balcony into the arms of Colonel Cave Johnson Couts....

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