The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
Winter 1979, Volume 25, Number 1
Thomas L. Scharf, Managing Editor
Original Articles
- San Diego’s City Park 1902-1910: From Parsons To Balboa
- By Gregory Montes
- The Only Safe and Sane Method: The Curtiss School of Aviation
- By Gary F. Kurutz
- The Viceroy Marquis de Croix: A Biographical Sketch
- By Eric Beerman
Book Reviews
- Camp and Camino in Lower California
- By Arthur W. North. Reviewed by Lowell L. Blaisdell
- Baja California and Its Missions
- By Tomas Robertson. Reviewed by R. Coke Wood
- Tomol: Chumash Watercrafts as Described in the Ethnographic Notes of John P. Harrington
- Edited by Travid Hudson, Janice Timbrook and Melissa Rampe. Reviewed by Catherine A. Callaghan
- Manifesto to the Mexican Republic, which Brigadier General José Figueroa, Commandant and Political Chief of Upper California presents on his conduct and on that of José María de Híjar and José María Padrés as Directors of Colonization in 1834 and 1835
- Translated by C. Alan Hutchinson. Reviewed by David Johnson
- Fig Tree ]ohn: An Indian in Fact and Fiction
- By Peter G. Beidler. Reviewed by Priscilla Ann Russo
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Probing the Oceans, 1936-1976
- By Elizabeth Noble Shor. Reviewed by Robert E. Filner
- Polish Americans in California 1827-1977 and Who’s Who
- Edited by Jacek Przygoda. Reviewed by Daniel E. Weinberg
- Letters from North America and Travels in Southern California
- By John Xántus. Reviewed by Peter W. van der Pas
Cover: An art glass window depicting grapes and flowers in the Pink Room (Reception Room) of the Villa Montezuma. This and other colorful windows in the house represent the work of San Francisco craftsman John Mallon. Built in 1887 by author and musician Jesse Shepard, the Villa Montezuma was designed by architects Comstock and Trotsche and is a magnificent example of eclectic Victorian architecture. It has been operated as an historic house museum and community cultural center by the San Diego History Center since 1972.
