Title: Lost worlds of the San Francisco Bay Area /
Authors: Linsteadt, Sylvia
Year: 2017
Subjects: Industries California San Francisco History.; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) Description and travel.; San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) History.
Abstract: "A visual and literary exploration of "dewdrop worlds" of the San Francisco Bay Area--eras and industries that once flourished but have now disappeared."--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Point Molate Whaling Station -- Marinship -- Neptune Beach -- Fruit orchards of the Santa Clara Valley -- Arequipa Pottery -- Belgum Sanitarium -- Bohemia at Monkey Block -- The Emporium Department Store -- The Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway -- The sand dunes of old San Francisco -- Mount Diablo Coal Mines -- The Farallon Lighthouse -- Paddlewheel boats -- Shrimp fishing at China Camp -- The last days of Oakland's redwoods -- New Almaden Quicksilver Mine -- Fort Ross -- Ranchos of the Santa Clara Valley.