Rails Through The Orange Groves

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Rails Through The Orange Groves

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Author : Stephen E. Donaldson
language : en
Publisher: Interurban Press
Release Date : 1989-07-01

Rails Through The Orange Groves written by Stephen E. Donaldson and has been published by Interurban Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-07-01 with Business & Economics categories.

Errata And Footnotes For Rails Through The Orange Groves Volumes I Ii

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Author : Stephen E. Donaldson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991

Errata And Footnotes For Rails Through The Orange Groves Volumes I Ii written by Stephen E. Donaldson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Railroads categories.

Octopus S Garden

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Author : Benjamin T. Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2023-07-10

Octopus S Garden written by Benjamin T. Jenkins and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-10 with History categories.

As Southern California recovered from the collapse of the cattle industry in the 1860s, the arrival of railroads—attacked by newspapers as the greedy “octopus”—and the expansion of citrus agriculture transformed the struggling region into a vast, idealized, and prosperous garden. New groves of the latest citrus varieties and new towns like Riverside quickly grew directly along the tracks of transcontinental railroads. The influx of capital, industrial technology, and workers, especially people of color, energized Southern California and tied it more closely to the economy and culture of the United States than ever before. Benjamin Jenkins’s Octopus’s Garden argues that citrus agriculture and railroads together shaped the economy, landscape, labor systems, and popular image of Southern California. Orange and lemon growing boomed in the 1870s and 1880s while railroads linked the region to markets across North America and ended centuries of geographic isolation for the West Coast. Railroads competed over the shipment of citrus fruits from multiple counties engulfed by the orange empire, resulting in an extensive rail network that generated lucrative returns for grove owners and railroad businessmen in Southern California from the 1890s to the 1950s. While investment from white Americans, particularly wealthy New Englanders, formed the financial backbone of the Octopus’s Garden, citrus and railroads would not have thrived in Southern California without the labor of people of color. Many workers of color took advantage of the commercial developments offered by railroads and citrus to economically advance their families and communities; however, these people also suffered greatly under the constant realities of bodily harm, low wages, and political and social exclusion. Promoters of the railroads and citrus cooperatives touted California as paradise for white Americans and minimized the roles of non-white laborers by stereotyping them in advertisements and publications. These practices fostered conceptions of California’s racial hierarchy by praising privileged whites and maligning the workers who made them prosper. The Octopus’s Garden continues to shape Southern Californians’ understanding of their past. In bringing together multiple storylines, Jenkins provides a complex and fresh perspective on the impact of citrus agriculturalists and railroad companies in Southern Californian history.

Rails Across Dixie

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Author : Jim Cox
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2010-11-17

Rails Across Dixie written by Jim Cox and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-17 with Transportation categories.

Covering legendary and obscure intercity passenger trains in a dozen Southeastern states, this book details the golden age of train travel. The story begins with the inception of steam locomotives in 1830 in Charleston, South Carolina, continuing through the mid-1930s changeover to diesel and the debut of Amtrak in 1971 to the present. Throughout, the book explores the technological achievements, the romance and the economic impact of traveling on the tracks. Other topics include contemporary museums and excursion trains; the development of commuter rails, monorails, light rails, and other intracity transit trains; the social impact of train travel; and historical rail terminals and facilities. The book is supplemented with more than 160 images and 10 appendices.

Orange County Chronicles

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Author : Phil Brigandi
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2013-10-22

Orange County Chronicles written by Phil Brigandi and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-22 with History categories.

Orange County is one of the best-known, yet least understood, counties in California. The popular image of beautiful people in beach cities is certainly accurate. But the Orange County that is often overlooked includes workaday lives in Anaheim, the barrios of Santa Ana, townhouse living in Brea and the diverse communities of Little Saigon, Little Texas, Los Rios, La Habra and Silverado Canyon. Modern Orange County offers very little sense of history, and it sometimes seems as if the urbanization of the 1960s is all that defines the place. Orange County historian Phil Brigandi fills in the gaps with this collection of essays that explores the very creation of the county, as well as pressing issues of race, citrus, attractions and annexation.

Orange Groves

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Author : William Fernie Stirling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1934

Orange Groves written by William Fernie Stirling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1934 with categories.

Extractives Manufacturing And Services

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Author : David O. Whitten
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1997-04-22

Extractives Manufacturing And Services written by David O. Whitten and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-22 with Business & Economics categories.

The second volume in the Handbook of American Business History series, this book offers concise histories of extractive, manufacturing, and service industries as well as extensive bibliographic essays pointing to the leading sources on each industry and bibliographic checklists. Supplementing other bibliographic materials in business history, this volume provides researchers with a much needed path through the vast array of material available in the library and on the Internet. Indicating which resources to check and which to bypass, the book is a guide to a sometimes overwhelming amount of information. Each of the book's chapters provides a concise industry history, beginning with the industry's rise to importance in the U.S. and continuing to the present. The bibliographic essays provide a narrative outline of the leading sources published or made available in archives, libraries, or museum collections since 1971, when Lovett's American Economic and Business History Information Sources was published. Each discussion concludes with a bibliographic checklist of the titles mentioned in the essay as well as other titles. In a rapidly expanding information society, researchers, teachers, and students may be easily overwhelmed by the exhaustive material available in print and electronically. What is useful and what can be ignored is a strategic question, and few know where to begin. This book provides a guide.

Railfan Railroad

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Railfan Railroad written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Periodicals categories.

An Encyclopaedia Of Gardening Comprehending The Theory And Practice Of Horticulture Floriculture Arboriculture And Landscape Gardening Including A General History Of Gardening In All Countries Etc

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Author : John Claudius Loudon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1822

An Encyclopaedia Of Gardening Comprehending The Theory And Practice Of Horticulture Floriculture Arboriculture And Landscape Gardening Including A General History Of Gardening In All Countries Etc written by John Claudius Loudon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1822 with categories.

Railroads And Depots Of Orange County

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Author : Rob Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2010

Railroads And Depots Of Orange County written by Rob Richardson and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.

Railroads have been a part of Orange County for over 130 years. The great names of American railroading--Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe; Southern Pacific; and Union Pacific--were firmly planted here by the early 1920s and linked with the largest interurban rail system in the United States, the famed Pacific Electric Railway. Thousands of people passed through Orange County's depots during the 1940s as they came to serve at the many military bases located here during World War II. The names have since changed, and yet the county's rail scene remains as dynamic as ever, with Amtrak, Metrolink, and amusement park railroads joining the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific. Railroad depots, new and old, are located across Orange County and continue on both as vital parts of history and the future of transportation for America's fifth most populated county.