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“They Are Our Brethren, of the Very Household of the Faith”: Mary Julia Workman and the Brownson Settlement House, Los Angeles, 1900-1920, Part Three

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  • Posted on January 6, 2023January 6, 2023
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Portrait Gallery: Cartes de Visites of Fredrick G. and Agnes Lambie Yapp, ca. late 1870s

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  • Posted on December 26, 2022December 27, 2022
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“She Has Touched the Imagination of General Public Opinion as no Other City Has Touched the Millions”: Purple Prose Boosterism in “Why Los Angeles Will Become the World’s Greatest City,” 1923, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 26, 2022
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“Their Improvement in Personal Appearance and Intelligence of Countenance is Really Thrilling”: The Report on An Experiment Made in Los Angeles in the Summer of 1917 for the Americanization of Foreign-born Women, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 8, 2022
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Treading the Boards with Wo/men at Work: An Orpheum Theater Circuit Contract with Ballet Dancer Simeon Karavaeff and His Four Stepping Sisters, Los Angeles, 2 October 1925

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  • Posted on October 2, 2022
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Take It to the Bank: A Temple and Workman Bank Check for Joseph Walter Drown, 16 September 1872, Part Two

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  • Posted on September 17, 2022
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Wo/men at Work, Labor Day Edition: A Photo of Black Contractor Charles S. Blodgett and Painters at the Hotel Darby, Los Angeles, 1909

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 5, 2022
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Read All About It In “The Greenbacker,” Los Angeles, 23 August 1879

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  • Posted on August 23, 2022
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Working the Land: The Day Book of Laura González for the Workman Homestead, Rancho La Puente, July-August 1887

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  • Posted on August 10, 2022August 11, 2022
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“Our Gains and Set-Backs in the U.S.A.”: The Southern California Branch of the ACLU’s “The Open Forum,” 28 June 1930

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 28, 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!
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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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