Research Catalog

Title

Paradise promoted : the booster campaign that created Los Angeles, 1870-1930 / by Tom Zimmerman ; design by Amy Inouye.

Author

Zimmerman, Tom.

Publication

Santa Monica, Calif. : Angel City Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Inouye, Amy
• Angel City Press publisher.

Description

207 p.; 24 cm x 24 cm.

Summary

"With more than 500 photographs and rare ephemera, all collected by author Tom Zimmerman, Paradise promoted is the first book to showcase the era from 1870 to 1930 when boosters developed the small town of Los Angeles into the city that would become Americas most cutting-edge metropolis"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• 1800-1999
• City promotion > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century
• City promotion > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century
• City promotion > United States > Case studies
• Cities and towns > United States > Growth > Case studies
• Los Angeles (Calif.) > Economic conditions > 19th century
• Los Angeles (Calif.) > Economic conditions > 20th century
• Los Angeles (Calif.) > History > Pictorial works
• Los Angeles (Calif.) > History > Sources

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• History
• Pictorial works
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A flower in the golden land of Los Angeles -- California south of Tehachapi -- A few nuts and how to crack them -- Where nature helps industry most -- Red cars of empire -- Movie studios -- Airplanes will take land values up -- Southern California all the year -- Don't come here looking for a job.

ISBN

9781883318642 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007044790

OCLC

• 182056626
• SCSB-11669910

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library