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The health seekers of Southern California, 1870-1900 / by John E. Baur ; introduction to the second edition by Robert G. Frank Jr.

Title
The health seekers of Southern California, 1870-1900 / by John E. Baur ; introduction to the second edition by Robert G. Frank Jr.
Author
Baur, John E.
Publication
San Marino, Calif. : Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, [2010]

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Additional Authors
Frank, Robert Gregg, 1943-
Description
xliii, 202 p.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Huntington Library classics
Uniform Title
Huntington classics
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Health Resorts
  • Health Resorts > history
  • Health resorts > California, Southern > History > 19th century
  • California
  • California, Southern > Climate
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Originally published: San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, c1959.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Building a health legend -- Advertising the resorts -- Los Angeles, capital of the "Sanitarium Belt" -- Town building -- Medicine and pseudo-medicine -- Faith and charity -- Mineral waters -- Prescription : agriculture -- Those who came -- The role of government -- Climax and anticlimax.
ISBN
  • 9780873282253 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0873282256 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008027840
OCLC
  • 232647332
  • SCSB-10748559
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library