San Francisco's mayors, 1850-1880 : including a missing mayor discovery /
Heintz, William F.
San Francisco's mayors, 1850-1880 : including a missing mayor discovery / by William F. Heintz ; research assistance by Gladys C. Hansen. - Woodside, Calif. : G. Richards Publications, c1975. - vi, 120 p. : ill. 28 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 111-116.
a community groping, sometimes ludicrously, for character, for "class." Meanwhile these inebriated toddlings were treated by the literati, both foreign and domestic, with a condescension that drew cries of resentment from chauvinistic San Franciscans. San Francisco's Mayors is a union of fact and fun, a romping reportage of the foibles of a small village projected into an adulthood without the benefit of a youth. It is a story of strong contrast--finery and filth, mink and mire, prudery and prostitution
Mayors--California--San Francisco
F 869.S353 / .H365 1975
San Francisco's mayors, 1850-1880 : including a missing mayor discovery / by William F. Heintz ; research assistance by Gladys C. Hansen. - Woodside, Calif. : G. Richards Publications, c1975. - vi, 120 p. : ill. 28 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 111-116.
a community groping, sometimes ludicrously, for character, for "class." Meanwhile these inebriated toddlings were treated by the literati, both foreign and domestic, with a condescension that drew cries of resentment from chauvinistic San Franciscans. San Francisco's Mayors is a union of fact and fun, a romping reportage of the foibles of a small village projected into an adulthood without the benefit of a youth. It is a story of strong contrast--finery and filth, mink and mire, prudery and prostitution
Mayors--California--San Francisco
F 869.S353 / .H365 1975
