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Getting Schooled: A Donation of a La Puente Grammar School Diploma for Hillard Cain Durfee, June 1919

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Getting Schooled with “The Sphinx,” An Ellis Villa College Newspaper, Los Angeles, 12 March 1885

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Getting Schooled with a Student Memory Book, Puente Union High School, 1925

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On This Day/Getting Schooled: “A Rural Life Survey of the La Puente School District,” 1930

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Getting Schooled/Read All About It Two-Fer with “The Siren,” Boyle Heights Junior High School, 18 January 1923

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Getting Schooled at Compton School, 1908

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Getting Schooled with Los Angeles County’s Public School Origins, 1854-1855

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Getting Schooled at Puente Union High School, 1928

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Getting Schooled at L.A. High, ca. late 1870s

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“Banish From This Sacred Precinct The Spirit That Kills Through Excessive, Heartless Doubt”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 10, 2026
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“The Tenderest Sentiments of the Human Heart, Excited by the Memory of the Dead”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 9, 2026October 9, 2026
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“We Have Proved That Northcott is a Fiend—One of the Most Depraved of Degenerates”: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Revealed, September 1928, Part Nine

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 5, 2026
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Tombstone Tales 2026: The Children of El Campo Santo, Part Two

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  • Posted on October 4, 2026
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Tombstone Tales 2026: The Children of El Campo Santo, Part One

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  • Posted on October 3, 2026
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“I Think There is Something Wrong With the Boy Mentally”: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Revealed, September 1928, Part Eight

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  • Posted on October 2, 2026
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“They Consider Me a Perfectly Normal Boy”: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Revealed, September 1928, Part Seven

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 1, 2026
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“I Look Just Like Any Other Young Fellow of Normal Mind and Disposition”: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Revealed, September 1928, Part Six

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 30, 2026
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“If It Is Not Disrespectful For Me To Speak Of A Client In This Way, I Thought He Was A ‘Nut.'”: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Revealed, September 1928, Part Five

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 28, 2026
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“It Is Just Too Much Money Tied Up For Me”: Bernard A. Whalen and La Casa Nueva Tile, 1924-1925

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 27, 2026
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  • “Banish From This Sacred Precinct The Spirit That Kills Through Excessive, Heartless Doubt”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part Two
  • “The Tenderest Sentiments of the Human Heart, Excited by the Memory of the Dead”: Some History of the Old Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1856-1896, Part One
  • “We Have Proved That Northcott is a Fiend—One of the Most Depraved of Degenerates”: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders Revealed, September 1928, Part Nine
  • Tombstone Tales 2026: The Children of El Campo Santo, Part Two
  • Tombstone Tales 2026: The Children of El Campo Santo, Part One

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