1903 CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES SAN DIEGO SANTA BARBARA

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1903 CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES SAN DIEGO SANTA BARBARA Description: From 1903, this is a volume from a 10-volume set titled John L. Stoddard's Lectures, published by Balch Brothers, Boston. This volume contains hundreds of rare photographs on Southern California and Los Angeles, The Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park. If you are interested in what Southern California, Los Angeles, Pasadena, the San Gabriel Valley, Santa Monica, San Diego, Santa Barbara and other towns looked like over 100 years ago, this is your book. Indians not treated well her: There's a picture of one California Indian with the caption, A Degenerate. Bound in green cloth, gilt titles, printed on high quality coated stock paper. Sized 9x6 inches, over 300 pages. Great condition. John Lawson Stoddard (1850-1931) was an American writer, hymn writer and lecturer who gained popularity through his travelogues. Stoddard was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1850. In 1871 he graduated from Williams College, then two years of theology at Yale Divinity School. After that he taught Latin and French at Boston Latin School. He began traveling around the world in 1874, and published Red-Letter Days Abroad in 1884. He turned his experiences into a series of popular lectures delivered throughout North America. These lectures were periodically published in book form read more

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