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Category: Commerce & Manufacturing

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From Point A to Point B With a Stock Certificate from Pickwick Airways, Inc., Los Angeles, 14 January 1929

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 16, 2023
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“The Eyes of America Are Turned Toward the Pacific Coast”: Part 3 of the Los Angeles Times Annual Midwinter Number, 3 January 1928

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  • Posted on January 3, 2023
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The Evolution of Christmas: Selling the Holiday in Los Angeles with a Bullock’s “For the Men’s Christmas” Catalog, Los Angeles, circa 1914

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 23, 2022
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The Evolution of Christmas: Selling the Holiday in Los Angeles with a Montgomery Brothers Jewelers Catalog, December 1925

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  • Posted on December 17, 2022December 18, 2022
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The Evolution of Christmas: Selling the Holiday in Los Angeles with The Elite Caterers and Confectioners, 1924

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 10, 2022December 10, 2022
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from J. Perry Worden to Thomas W. Temple II, 8 December 1927

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  • Posted on December 8, 2022December 9, 2022
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 4 December 1874

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  • Posted on December 4, 2022
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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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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Herald, 22 October 1874

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  • Posted on October 22, 2022
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“It is Our Aim to Place Within the Reach of the Consumer the Genuine Article at Reasonable Figures”: A Letter from the Germain Fruit Company Wine Department, Los Angeles, 20 October 1893

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  • Posted on October 21, 2022
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Check out these amazing gouache paintings done by the talented Megan R.! We are always delighted when someone creates art of our site!!!
Transformation in the Teens: The Workman and Temple Families in 1910s Los Angeles
Happy National Milk Day!
Behind-the-Scenes Tours
An ad for a horse race at the Santa Anita Park. Taken from a Mason House program from 1908.
We're always excited when our collection is used in someone's research! Check out this photo from our collection of Los Angeles Mayor Damien Marchessault, which was used by Annick Foucrier, a historian from Paris, in an article on the French in California.

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