1912 Booklet GILROY Home Of The Prune SANTA CLARA COUNTY California MAP

Description

1912
Booklet
GILROY
Home Of The Prune
SANTA CLARA COUNTY
California
MAP
DESCRIPTION:
Circa 1912
promotional
booklet
GILROY:
Home Of The Prune
Santa Clara County
California;
Gilroy Chamber of Commerce, Gilroy, California;
stapled 20-page booklet [pamphlet]; size 9 x 6 inches; Art nouveau designed covers with California Poppies;
full page illustrations in and around
Gilroy:
including buildings, homesteads, agriculture, a beautiful modern
Arts and Crafts Movement
style bungalow; a double-page scene of recreation on the
Uvas river
near
Gilroy,
the
Gilroy Hot Springs,
and a full-page
MAP
inside back cover.
DATE:
The
Gilroy High
School
was built in
1912
and the text says that
“the High School was recently completed”
.
CONDITION:
Very good,
mild wear to covers
[see scans].
SECURITY:
ARGUS BOOKS
[or other wording] in
PINK
may have been super-imposed over the images for security or informational reasons and are not on the actual item.
HISTORY: Gilroy
is a city in Northern California's Santa Clara County, south of Morgan Hill and north of San Benito County. Gilroy is the southernmost city in the San Francisco Bay Area. Gilroy's origins lie in the village of San Ysidro that grew in the early 19th century out of Rancho San Ysidro, granted to Californio ranchero Ygnacio Ortega in 1809. Following Ygnacio's death in 1833, his daughter Clara Ortega de Gilroy and son-in-law John Gilroy inherited the largest portion of the rancho and began developing the settlement. When the town was incorporated in 1868, it was renamed in honor of John Gilroy, a Scotsman who had emigrated to California in 1814, naturalized as a Mexican citizen, adopted the Spanish language, and converted to Catholicism, taking the name of Juan Bautista Gilroy. Gilroy is known for its garlic crop and the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival, featuring various garlicky foods such as garlic ice cream, leading to the city's nickname, the Garlic Capital of the World. It is also known for boutique wine production, mostly consisting of family vineyards around the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains to the west.
SHIPPING:
All paper items [broadsides, labels, pamphlets, brochures, photos, etc.] that are 1/4 of an inch thick or less are shipped between two double-walled pieces of cardboard [equal to 4 sheets of cardboard and are virtually impossible to bend] by USPS Media mail [unless other arrangements have been made with seller].
[PL – B1 – S4
(code to locate the item)
]