La Reina, Los Angeles in Three Centuries, 1931
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La Reina, Los Angeles in Three Centuries, Laurance L. Hill. Security-First National bank: Los Angeles, 1931. Measures 9" x 6" inches. 208 pages. Front soft cover shows black and white photo of Spanish settlement with dirt roads and a single street lamp. Black and white photographs of the city's early history including major figures throughout. Originally published to commemorate the fortieth anniverary of the founding of the former security trust and savings bank of Los Angeles in 1889. The text is a tribute to Los Angeles history and to the state of California, "How marvelous are nature's laws which work to serve us! The thick blanket of perpetual snows on the distant Sierras, the genial, melting sun, the brawling streams, which empty into placid lakes; the urge of gravity, forcing the life-giving fluid down man-made channels, across gorges, through gigantic tubes of steel, under range after range in rock-lined bores, whirling in passing the spindles of giant turbines! How the waters sink into the thirsty soil, gather in the filtering sands beneath, and are again lifted by the power they themselves have generated, to arrive at last under pressure for the manifold use of a waiting people!" Text block intact but detached from covers. Shelfwear to covers and spine partially separated from covers. Pages clean and bright. Overall good condition.Item #18086
Price: $125.00
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