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Month: December 2022

  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from J. Perry Worden to Thomas W. Temple II, 8 December 1927

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 8, 2022December 3, 2025
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  • Oil Industry

All Over the Map While Drilling for Black Gold with a “Map of the Montebello—Whittier Oil Fields,” 1918/1921, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 7, 2022December 8, 2022
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  • Oil Industry

All Over the Map While Drilling for Black Gold with a “Map of the Montebello—Whittier Oil Fields,” 1918/1921, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 6, 2022
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  • Oil Industry

All Over the Map While Drilling for Black Gold with a “Map of the Montebello—Whittier Oil Fields,” 1918/1921, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 5, 2022December 6, 2022
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 4 December 1874

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 4, 2022
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  • Architecture & Decoration

The Evolution of Christmas: Selling the Holiday in Los Angeles With “Pleasing Homes” from Barker Brothers, December 1919

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 3, 2022
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  • “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
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  • Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 28 May 1874

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