Journalism in California [and] Pacific Coast and Exposition Biographies

San Francisco: Chronicle Publishing Co., 1915 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. x, 362pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs; portraits. General index, biographical index. Gray cloth. Slightest of darkening to spine, else a fine copy. Quite comprehensive. Contains a wealth of material on the history of journalism in California, the history of the Chronicle, the newspaper press of San Francisco from the early 1850's, the 1856 Vigilance Committee, the Civil War period, the brothers Charles and M. H. de Young, stock gambling of the '70's, the Midwinter Exposition (1894), journalistic changes and policies prior to 1900, the 1906 fire and earthquake, and more, along with biographies of leading citizens including those associated with the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition..