The Journal of San Diego History
SAN DIEGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY
Spring 1981, Volume 27, Number 2

Main Articles

The Selling of a City: Oceanside, 1920-1930
By Brian Wiersema and Mary Taschner
Black Pioneers in San Diego: 1880-1920
By Gail Madyun and Larry Malone
The Founding of San Diego’s Red Cross
By Ralph E. Hughes and Laurel Davis Scott
Ships and Sherds: Ceramics at the San Diego Presidio
By Jean Krase

Book Reviews

The California to Remember.
Sketches by Eugene Gilbert, Text by Richard F. Pourade. Reviewed by Clare W. McKanna.
The Shoshoni Indians of Inyo County: The Kerr Manuscript.
Edited, annotated, and with introductory preface by Charles N. Irwin. Reviewed by Stephen A. Colston.
King of the Missions: A Documentary History of San Luis Rey de Francia.
Compiled and edited by Msgr. Francis J. Weber. Reviewed by John E. Baur.
The Proto Mission: A Documentary History of San Diego de Alcalá.
Compiled and edited by Msgr. Francis J. Weber. Reviewed by Dr. James Robert Moriarty, III.
Ancient Wisdom Revived: A History of the Theosophical Movement.
By Bruce F. Campbell. Reviewed by Emmett A. Greenwalt.