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Category: Oil Industry

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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Star, 4 June 1874

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 4, 2026June 5, 2026
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Getting Schooled While Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Thomas W. Temple II to Walter P. Temple, Sr., 2 June 1927

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  • Posted on June 2, 2026June 3, 2026
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Youle Tide, Too: “Sixty-Three Years of Life in the Oil Fields” by William E. Youle in the Souvenir Number of the “Petroleum Reporter,” 21 May 1926, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 23, 2026
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Youle Tide, Too: “Sixty-Three Years of Life in the Oil Fields” by William E. Youle in the Souvenir Number of the “Petroleum Reporter,” 21 May 1926, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 22, 2026May 23, 2026
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Youle Tide, Too: “Sixty-Three Years of Life in the Oil Fields” by William E. Youle in the Souvenir Number of the “Petroleum Reporter,” 21 May 1926, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 21, 2026May 22, 2026
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Tres Hermanos Hike Postview: Some History of Tonner Canyon Namesake Patrick C. Tonner (1844-1900), Part Seven

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 5, 2026
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“Served Well in Army, Field and at Bar”: Some History of Alfred Beck Chapman (1829-1915), Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 11, 2026April 12, 2026
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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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 1, 2026
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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 Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 29, 2026
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From Braunschweig to Beverly Hills: Some History of Andrew H. Denker and Henry Hammel in Greater Los Angeles, 1856-1892, Part Two

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  • Posted on January 20, 2026
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