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Celebrating Earth Day With an Ink Blotter From the Pico Street Nursery of Joe M. Yoshida, ca. 1920s

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  • Posted on April 12, 2025April 13, 2025
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Through the Viewfinder: The Baker Block in “Los Angeles, Cal. Main Street,” Isaiah W. Taber, ca. 1883, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 9, 2025
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Sharing History With the Monrovia Historical Society: Some Early History of Monrovia, 1885-1886, Part Two

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  • Posted on April 8, 2025April 10, 2025
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Boyle Heights at 150 Postview: “A Residence District Highly Favored By Nature,” Los Angeles Herald, 3 June 1906, Part One

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  • Posted on April 1, 2025April 1, 2025
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“The Reputation of Our Wines is Favorably Increasing”: The Opening Address of Arpad Haraszthy at the Sixth Annual Viticultural Convention, 7 March 1888, Part Two

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  • Posted on March 8, 2025
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“We Are Only on the Eve of Greater Work”: The Opening Address of Arpad Haraszthy at the Sixth Annual Viticultural Convention, 7 March 1888, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 7, 2025
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Read All About It: A Grape Controversy With the Tarbox Brandy Distillery, Los Angeles, 1874-1878, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 3, 2025
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Read All About It: A Grape Controversy With the Tarbox Brandy Distillery, Los Angeles, 1874-1878, Part One

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  • Posted on March 2, 2025
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“The Question Appears to Me to Be Deserving of Careful Examination and Study, and I Recommend the Place as ‘Worthy of Improvement.'”: A Letter from the Secretary of War on A Survey of San Pedro Bay, California, 28 February 1888

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 28, 2025
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The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: Mining Media References to African-Americans in the 1860s

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  • Posted on February 24, 2025September 5, 2025
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Recent Posts

  • Double Checking the History of Frederick Lambourn (1837-1914), Tutor and Ranch Foreman for the Workman Family, Part One
  • Take It To The Bank Through the Viewfinder: A Press Photo of the Site of the Federal Reserve Bank Building, Los Angeles, early April 1929
  • Temples of Trade Through the Viewfinder: A Photo of the Charles C. Chapman (Los Angeles Investment Company) Building, Broadway and 8th, Los Angeles, ca. 1924, Part Five
  • Temples of Trade Through the Viewfinder: A Photo of the Charles C. Chapman (Los Angeles Investment Company) Building, Broadway and 8th, Los Angeles, ca. 1924, Part Four
  • Temples of Trade Through the Viewfinder: A Photo of the Charles C. Chapman (Los Angeles Investment Company) Building, Broadway and 8th, Los Angeles, ca. 1924, Part Three

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