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Old California Houses : Portraits and Stories by Marion Randall Parsons is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Old California Houses: Portraits and Stories by Marion Randall Parsons is both an art book and a work of historical imagination. Originating in a painter's sketching tour, the volume preserves vignettes of California's architectural and cultural past—old adobes, mission-era ranch houses, miners' boarding places, schools, churches, and grand mansions—through portraits paired with richly anecdotal narratives. Parsons deliberately moves beyond monuments marked for preservation, drawing instead on m
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Marion Randall Parsons
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520365728
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Arts
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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