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The War Against Vice
Official confirmation of California’s high-quality, wide-spread gold deposits sent an electric jolt around the world. Thousands of...

Cheryl Anne Stapp
May 73 min read
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Mary Pickford
In a career that spanned several decades, her various nicknames included “Goldielocks,” “The Girl with the Curls,” and most of all,...

Cheryl Anne Stapp
Mar 27, 20243 min read
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Architect Lilian J. Rice
She died young but her influence endures, not least because several of her works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places....

Cheryl Anne Stapp
Mar 20, 20242 min read
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Doña Francisca Vallejo
A dark-eyed beauty, Francisca Carrillo was born in San Diego when California was still a province of Imperial Spain, and raised in the...

Cheryl Anne Stapp
Mar 13, 20243 min read
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Poet Laureate Ina Coolbrith
She was a poet, an editor, a teacher, a librarian, and a prominent figure in San Francisco’s literary community in the 19th and early...

Cheryl Anne Stapp
Mar 6, 20243 min read
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