Los Angeles, an illustrated history / by Bruce Henstell.

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Henstell, Bruce.

Title & Author:

Los Angeles, an illustrated history / by Bruce Henstell.

Publication:

New York : Knopf, 1980.

Description:

223 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-223) and index.
I. A fair and glorious land -- II. The Halcyon years -- III. The boom of the eighties -- IV. The gay nineties -- V. Before the war -- VI. Los Angeles in color -- VII. The depression decade -- IX. The war years -- X. The new boom -- XI. Modern mecca.
Also issued online.

Summary:

With its more than 400 superb photographs, paintings and drawings, twenty-six of them in ful color, many never before published, with its richly informative text and captions, this book celebrates a great American city. Here the spectacular visual variety and richness of Los Angeles is fully projected in a single volume.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0394509412 :
9780394509419

Subject:

Los Angeles (Calif.) History Pictorial works.
Los Angeles (Calif.) Pictorial works.
California Los Angeles

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 16052
Call No.: 6538; ID:87-B4838
Status: Available

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