Condition: Good. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. Pages: not written on, clean, bright, fade spots to back and front left, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, edges - very good. ABOUT THIS: UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE KINGS of Spain, the Spanish governors of California made a number of large land grants, often for no more than the asking. In 1797, Governor Diego de Borico granted title to a sizeable acreage to Jose Maria Verdugo, a humble Mexican soldier who was stationed at Mission San Gabriel. Since 1784, Verdugo had been grazing cattle and horses and raising a few vegetables on this tract by permission of a previous governor. This area included all of present-day Glendale. 

The growth and development of history-rich Glendale are chronicled in this new Centennial edition of Glendale: A Pictorial History by Katherine Peters Yamada. Taking up where previous editions by E. Caswell Perry, Shirley Catherine Berger, and Terri Jonisch left off, Yamada adds more than seventy photographs, illustrations and more than forty pages of text to bring Glendale's story up to its Centennial year. 

This moving pictorial tribute captures the emotion and spirit on which Glendale was built. It features the famous and not so famous people, events, institutions, and landmarks that are the foundation of the city's history. 

From the building of the interurban railroad from Los Angeles to Glendale, to the city's incorporation in 1906, to the influx of new home seekers during the 1920s and through two world wars, the Great Depression and the transition to an industrial and commercial economy, you will witness in words and pictures why Edward V. Emery proclaimed Glendale in 1910 as the "Jewel City."