Places & Communities “One of the Most Extensive Projects in Water-Supply Engineering That Has Been Undertaken in This Country”: A Review of “Preliminary Work on the Los Angeles Aqueduct” from “The Engineering Record,” 8 February 1908 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 8, 2022February 9, 2022 Read More
Law & Crime “An Expression of the Determined Spirit of Local Citizens”: A Reward Poster by the City of San Gabriel After the Murder of Police Officer Elmer H. Griffin, 7 February 1926 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 7, 2022July 25, 2023 Read More
Biographies Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Frank Hervey Pettingell of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange to Maximilian F. Ihmsen of the “Los Angeles Examiner,” 6 February 1917 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 6, 2022February 7, 2022 Read More
Biographies “Along Those Lines Conducive to the Uplift of Humanity”: Eulogizing Dr. Norman Bridge in “The Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Medical Association,” 5 February 1925 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 5, 2022February 7, 2022 Read More
Architecture & Decoration “A Crown Jewel Ablaze on the Urban Bosom”: The Orpheum Theater of Los Angeles in “The American Architect,” 4 February 1914 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 4, 2022February 5, 2022 Read More
Places & Communities “When California Was the Happiest Land in All the World”: A Pamphlet for “The Mission Play,” San Gabriel, 1923 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 3, 2022 Read More
Places & Communities “A Just and Honorable Peace, And Not Conquest, Being Our Purpose”: A Message from President James K. Polk to the United States Senate, 4 August 1846 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 2, 2022February 3, 2022 Read More
Places & Communities “From Its Present Dominion Into the Hands of Another Race”: A Call for the Purchase of California from México by the United States in “Littell’s Living Age,” 31 January 1846, Part Two by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 1, 2022February 3, 2022 Read More
