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California Ranchos, Second Edition (Paperback)
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California Ranchos, Second Edition (Paperback)
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Loot Price R565
Discovery Miles 5 650
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The original volume from which this book is taken, Burgess McK.
Shumway's "Ranchos of California: Patented Private Land Grants
Listed by County," was one of a series of noteworthy research
projects produced by the Federal Writ-ers Project of the Works
Project Administration. The WPA was a Depression-era attempt by the
administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide paying
jobs for the nation's unemployed workers, including out-of-work
artists, writers, and other creative individuals. The FWP took
these unemployed authors and set them to producing state and city
travel guides, county records manuals, census indexes, local and
regional histories, and a great many other projects of interest to
the historian and researcher. Regrettably, many of the projected
series were never finished, having been terminated with the outset
of World War II. Also unfortunately, more than half of the books
which did appear were published in mimeographed form only, in
editions of no more than 250 copies, with poor typography (often
typed copy), inferior paper, and cheap bindings. Few copies survive
today, and most of these are brittle, faded, and difficult to read.
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