“A Detour Sign Reading ‘Guilty’ Had Been Posted on the Highway to Wealth”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Four

“The Charge of Grand Larceny . . . Won’t Hold Water for a Minute”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Three

“The Deal Was a Huge Bunco Game”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Two

“Accused of Being ‘Get-Rich-Quick-Wallingfords'”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part One

Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 28 May 1874

“Los Angeles Is Going Dry?”: A Postcard by Michael Rieder on the Angel City Anti-Saloon Election of Spring 1905, Part One

“Comrades, Rest, Your March is Done!”: Decoration/Memorial Day in Los Angeles, 1876-1880

Making a Statement With a Temple Townsite Company “Statement of Cash Received & Disbursed 5/15/26-5/22/26”

Youle Tide, Too: “Sixty-Three Years of Life in the Oil Fields” by William E. Youle in the Souvenir Number of the “Petroleum Reporter,” 21 May 1926, Part Three

Youle Tide, Too: “Sixty-Three Years of Life in the Oil Fields” by William E. Youle in the Souvenir Number of the “Petroleum Reporter,” 21 May 1926, Part Two

The Homestead Blog

At Our Leisure with Photos from Switzer’s Camp, San Gabriel Mountains, 30 May 1921

“I Stand Amid The Eternal Ways”: At Our Leisure with a Trio of Photographs of The Austin Family, Switzer’s Camp and A San Gabriel Mountains Panorama, August 1914

A(r)t Our Leisure: A Donation of Camp Baldy Real Photo Postcards Purchased by Artist Albert Clinton Conner, August 1920

At Our Leisure Through the Viewfinder: A Photo Album of Camping in Big Santa Anita Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, ca. 1910s

“This is Such a Glorious Place for Vacation”: Reading Between the Lines While At Our Leisure in a Letter from Thomas W. Temple II to Walter P. Temple, Sr., 23 July 1925

“Where It is Always Afternoon to the Lover of the Cycle”: Charles Fuller Gates’ “Cycling in Southern California” in The Land of Sunshine, June 1896

At Our Leisure: A Photo of Camp Rincon, The Gem of San Gabriel Canyon, July 1908

Games People Play: J.C. Wright, “Champion Mountain Climber of California,” at Inspiration Rock, Mt. Wilson, 7 July 1907

At Our Leisure: A Real Photo Postcard of a Sylvan Scene at Sturtevant Camp, San Gabriel Mountains, 21 July 1910

At Our Leisure: A Crowded Summer Day at Venice Beach, 1 August 1929

At Our Leisure: Hikers at Strawberry Peak, San Gabriel Mountains, 1920s

Striking a Chord: The Hollywood Bowl, ca. 1923

“A Detour Sign Reading ‘Guilty’ Had Been Posted on the Highway to Wealth”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Four

“The Charge of Grand Larceny . . . Won’t Hold Water for a Minute”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Three

“The Deal Was a Huge Bunco Game”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Two

“Accused of Being ‘Get-Rich-Quick-Wallingfords'”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part One

Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 28 May 1874

“Los Angeles Is Going Dry?”: A Postcard by Michael Rieder on the Angel City Anti-Saloon Election of Spring 1905, Part One

“Comrades, Rest, Your March is Done!”: Decoration/Memorial Day in Los Angeles, 1876-1880

Making a Statement With a Temple Townsite Company “Statement of Cash Received & Disbursed 5/15/26-5/22/26”

Youle Tide, Too: “Sixty-Three Years of Life in the Oil Fields” by William E. Youle in the Souvenir Number of the “Petroleum Reporter,” 21 May 1926, Part Three

Youle Tide, Too: “Sixty-Three Years of Life in the Oil Fields” by William E. Youle in the Souvenir Number of the “Petroleum Reporter,” 21 May 1926, Part Two