Description

Historical Society of Southern California, 1895. Soft cover, 62 pp. Reprint made in 1966 for Dawson's Book Shop. Good/ NO dust jacket. Grey paper covers with black lettering. Light bumping and creasing to edges and corner and light overall aging and spotting. Binding tight. Pages are still unopened (uncut) along the top and fore edges and are bound somewhat unevenly. Pages are clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Includes articles on Origin of the Historical Society of So. Cal, Recollections of Capt. Alex. Bell and the Bell Block, A History of University Town, Memorial Sketch of Col. J. J. Warner, From Arizona to California in the Early '70s, Ship Building at San Gabriel, The Plan of Old Los Angeles, The Recent Origin of Man, Date of the First Discovery of Gold in California. The Historical Society of Southern California was founded in 1883 by a group of Los Angeles citizens to preserve and promote the history of Southern California. The Society's primary focus has been to collect historical documents, photographs, and artifacts while fostering historical research and education about the region. Its flagship publication, The Southern California Quarterly, originally known as Annual Publications and later as The Quarterly, has been in continuous publication since 1884, offering scholarly articles on a wide range of topics related to Southern California history.