[Francis] Frank M. Zwart III arrived at the University of California, Santa Cruz as a student at Cowell College in 1967, when the campus was a mere two years old and the students were "walking across planks where pipe trenches were still open." Zwart…
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The McHenry Farm, Lompoc, California, 1912. Standing in front of the house in which Chancellor McHenry was born are, from left to right, his sister, Eunice Virginia; his brother Roy; his mother; the photographer’s wife, Mrs. Charles Bachelor; and…
Standing clockwise around the cow are Roy; Dean E. in the arms of his mother, Virginia Hilton McHenry; Mrs. Charles Bachelor holding a dog named Busy; and Eurnice Virginia. Seated in the foreground is Chancellor McHenry’s father, William Thomas…
When Upton Sinclair, famous author and lifetime Socialist, won the Democratic primary for governor of California in 1934 in a landslide--leading the greatest mass movement in the state's history--all hell broke loose there and across the country. To…
Identifier: crusadersorscene00keig
Title: The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Keightley, Thomas, 1789-1872
Subjects: Crusades
Publisher: London J.W. Parker
Contributing…
The cover is wrapped in a midnight blue leather. There are also wooden strips on the front and on the back. The front cover has 8 wooden pieces with 4 wooden strips on the bottom layer and then 4 layed over the top. Alternatively there are 9 wooden…