Item #24705 History of Pomona Valley California with Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the Valley Who Have Been Identified with its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present
History of Pomona Valley California with Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the Valley Who Have Been Identified with its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present
History of Pomona Valley California with Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the Valley Who Have Been Identified with its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present
History of Pomona Valley California with Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the Valley Who Have Been Identified with its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present

History of Pomona Valley California with Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the Valley Who Have Been Identified with its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present

Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1920.

Hardcover. Good+. 11" x 8", 818 pp, complete in one volume. Illustrated. Bound in original three-quarter leather and green cloth. Joints are cracked and boards a bit wobbly but cloth-reinforced hinges remain secure. Early ownership signature of S.E.[?] Howard of San Dimas, California, on front flyleaf, small inkstamp of M.E. Howard on pastedowns. Text clean. The first ca. 100 pages includes chapters on Mexican pioneers, life on the Ranchos in the 1840s, the Spanish settlement at San Jose Hills, beginnings of Pomona, water and power, industries of the valley, social and intellectual life, civic life, and the foothill cities along the Santa Fe Railroad line. The remainder of the text is taken up with biographical sketches of prominent citizens.

Item #24705

Price: $350.00

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