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Planning and landscaping hillside homes

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Description: A collection of ideas for anyone wishing to buy, remodel, or landscape a hillside home. Includes a list of plants used for such varied landscaping purposes as wind resistance and fire and erosion control.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1965]
Call number: 654891
Provenance: Gift of Roger S. Hong, June 2006. From the Hong family library.
Dimensions: 28 cm
Associated people: Hong, You Chung, (1898-1977,); Hong, Mabel, (1907-1998,); Hong, Roger S., (1941-2006,)
Associated organizations: Sunset Books.; Sunset Magazine (Firm)
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Ideas for hillside homes

Rare Books

A collection of ideas for anyone wishing to buy, remodel, or landscape a hillside home. Includes a list of plants used for such varied landscaping purposes as wind resistance and fire and erosion control.

654892

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Hillside landscape

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A collection of photographs documenting miner Robert S. Watt and family living in the mountains of Los Angeles County at the turn of the 20th century. Views show daily activities and places visited; people hunting and living in cabins; horses; and a few group portraits, such as Los Angeles County Hospital Nurses on a picnic (1905) with names written on back. Other views show ships and a harbor, possibly in San Pedro, California; Los Angeles buildings (Plaza Church and County Courthouse) and oil wells. Mining scenes include the Watt Mines Supply Co. building in Los Angeles; men at an excavation; stamp mill machinery; a man standing at entrance to mine; and mule teams with supplies. There is also a group of photographs of Alaska, showing trappers, roadhouses, scenery, and a miner staking a claim on a river. There are also two U.S. citizenship certificates for Robert S. Watt (1890) and Alexander Barrie (1901), emigrants from Scotland.

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Our home on the hillside, Dansville, Liv. Co. N.Y. : The largest hygienic water cure in the world

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Image of an elevated street view of the four-story hydrotherapy spa Our Home on the Hill Side and nearby houses on a verdant hillside in Dansville in Livingston County, New York, with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages on the street below.

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Landscaping for Jean Lawson: Clark residence

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Landscaping at a house including a bottle glass half wall and a patio with shelves for displaying potted plants.

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This single-circuit transmission tower stands on a hillside overlooking Dam #7 and Redinger Lake

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This single-circuit transmission tower stands on a hillside overlooking Dam #7 and Redinger Lake in the background. Towers of this design were pioneered in 1913 for the original Big Creek development. Today, 220kV transmission lines on several different rights-of-way feed Big Creek power into the Edison system.

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Southern California Hudson-Essex dealers barbecue group portrait, Hillside Farm. 1925

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Over one hundred men pose for this panoramic photograph of the Southern California Hudson-Essex dealers barbecue at Hillside Farm. The men sit and stand in an area with American flags and a long Hudson-Essex banner hung overhead. Picnic tables and food servers are in the background on the far right. The ms. note on the negative spells barbecue "barbacue".

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