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SCENES OF WONDER & CURIOSITY HUTCHINGS' CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE 1856 THROUGH 1861 Roger R. Olmsted 1962 1st ed Hardcover DJ Near Fine
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Berkeley, Howell-North, 1962, 1st edition. 413 pp, 300 b/w engravings of California life and scenery, mapped end papers. Tan cloth hardcover with black titles and decoration and dust jacket. Jacket has minor chipping. Near Fine.
Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine
was a magazine published between 1856 and 1861, in San Francisco, which played an important role in popularizing California in general, and to a large extent Yosemite National Park in particular. Publisher and promoter James Hutchings was born in Towcester, England, and in 1848 came to the United States along with a vast wave of Europeans that were escaping a maelstrom of economic, political and religious oppression in the late 1840s. Shortly after he arrived gold was found in the Sierra Nevada, and Hutchings decided to seek his fortune. His was a common story insofar as he did not make a good living mining gold, but what little he did make he invested.
In addition to attracting settlers to the west coast, the gold rush also brought technology, in particular printing presses, and Hutchings learned to make a moderately lucrative living publishing and selling letter sheets, which were printed broad sheets purposely left blank on the back so they could be used to write letters, something akin to large-format postcards.
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