Praetzellis, Adrianhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.1/7662024-03-29T00:23:09Z2024-03-29T00:23:09ZA Shtetl in Petaluma, Review of "Comrades and Chicken Ranchers" by Kenneth KannPraetzellis, Adrianhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1371062015-03-20T04:48:27Z1993-01-01T00:00:00ZA Shtetl in Petaluma, Review of "Comrades and Chicken Ranchers" by Kenneth Kann
Praetzellis, Adrian
It's an unlikely-sounding story:
Eastern European Jews, socialists for
the most part, escape the poverty
and the pogroms of turn-of-the-century
Russia and Poland and find a
new home - in Petaluma!
Hollywood will never buy the
film rights, but that doesn't worry
oral historian Kenneth Kann, whose
new book has captured the essence
not only of the place and time but a process of cultural change among three generations of this vigorous
Jewish community.
1993-01-01T00:00:00ZArchaeology, Hitstory and a Hoag House MysteryPraetzellis, MaryPraetzellis, Adrianhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1371052019-12-12T20:37:04Z1985-01-01T00:00:00ZArchaeology, Hitstory and a Hoag House Mystery
Praetzellis, Mary; Praetzellis, Adrian
In January 1984, while the Hoag House
was still at its original location - up on
piers and ready to be moved Adrian
Praetzellis~ at the request of architect
Dan Peterson, excavated a trash-filled pit
beneath the structure. For a while, it
looked as if we had caught Obediah Hoag in
one of these contradictions between what
historical archaeologists call observed
behavior - Hoag as described by his - contemporaries and preserved behavior -
Hoag as reflected by his trash. This
article will present and resolve that
apparent contradiction and, in the
process, recount a good deal of Santa
Rosa's history.
1985-01-01T00:00:00Z"Sunshine Corner": Archaeology and the Domestic Reform Movement in West Oakland, CaliforniaPraetzellis, AdrianPraetzellis, MaryWoods, Aichahttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1369352015-03-18T04:44:01Z1996-01-01T00:00:00Z"Sunshine Corner": Archaeology and the Domestic Reform Movement in West Oakland, California
Praetzellis, Adrian; Praetzellis, Mary; Woods, Aicha
Domestic reformers described West Oakland as a "district of great ugliness," "a law-abiding workingman's district settled chiefly by hard-working foreigners, with a sprinkling of Americans." From the mid-1880s, local women's clubs worked in West Oakland founding a community center that included a kitchen garden, kindergarten, boys' club, mothers' club, Salvage Bureau (or household goods recycling center), and a School of Domestic Science. This community center was surrounded by 39 blocks that will be developed for reconstruction of the earthquake-damaged Cypress Freeway. The archaeological research design for this project addresses a variety of issues that are relevant to this 19th-and early 20th-century working-class neighborhood, including Victorian ideology that was supplemented by the progressive ideas and social activism of the domestic reform movements. While the movements' goals and activities in West Oakland are well documented, only archaeology can provide indications of its success in translating progressive, modern values to the area's culturally diverse families.
1996-01-01T00:00:00Z"Bury My Bones in California;" History and Archaeology of Yee Ah TyeFarkas, Lani Ah TyePraetzellis, Adrianhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1369192019-12-12T20:37:03Z2000-01-01T00:00:00Z"Bury My Bones in California;" History and Archaeology of Yee Ah Tye
Farkas, Lani Ah Tye; Praetzellis, Adrian
In this paper we combine family history and archaeology to present the life and times of California pioneer Yee Ah Tye. Not quite a '49er, Yee arrived in San Francisco from southern China in about 1852 and became an agent for the Sze Yup District Association, a role that he would continue in Sacramento and La Porte until his death in 1896. Archaeological excavations of Chinese district association houses in Sacramento and at the site of a Chinese gold miners' camp in Sierra County provide insights into Yee's role as association official, merchant, and middleman representing the interests of his community for over 40 years.
2000-01-01T00:00:00Z