Founded in 1868, Davis 's history is divided into an
initial "village " period (1860s -1900s), a middle
four-decade "town " period (1910s -1940s), and a
current and on-going "city " period (1950s to present). Much of what people think of as quintessential "Davis " was created in the middle, town period. About 1910 and with the start of the University of California experimental farm, Davis began to grow and become a striving and thriving town. Focusing on the four decades of the 1910s to the 1940s, this book contains over two hundred images of Davis, including downtown streetscapes...