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Category: Transportation & Infrastructure

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Raze and Means: The Demolition of the Old City Hall, Los Angeles, 1929

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 21, 2023January 22, 2023
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  • Places & Communities

“California is an Empire in the Making”: A “Report of the Joint Committee of the Senate and Assembly Dealing With the Water Problems of the State,” 18 January 1929

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 18, 2023
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

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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At Our Leisure: Winter Frolics in a Pair of Press Photographs from Big Pines Recreation Camp, 28 and 31 December 1927

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 30, 2022
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Portrait Gallery: Cartes de Visites of Fredrick G. and Agnes Lambie Yapp, ca. late 1870s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 26, 2022December 27, 2022
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Herald, 20 December 1874

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  • Posted on December 20, 2022December 21, 2022
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“Influences That Mastered and Destroyed the Strong Man That Has Just Fallen”: The Tragedy of Damien Marchessault, 1818-1868

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 13, 2022December 14, 2022
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From Point A to Point B Along the Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Railroad, 1883-1888

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 11, 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

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  • Posted on December 6, 2022
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“The Instrument of Rescuing from Oblivion a Portion of the Early History of our Country”: An Historical Sketch of Los Angeles County, California, November 1876, Part Seven

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 28, 2022
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  • Reading Between the Lines in Letters to F.P.F. Temple From his Sister Clarinda Bancroft and Niece Lucinda Sanborn, 30 January 1842
  • “In Defending This People From Danger”: The Barton Massacre of 23 January 1857, Part Six
  • “For Revenge on the Ones Who Have Slain Them”: The Barton Massacre of 23 January 1857, Part Five
  • “Go Forth in the Names of the Brave Men They’ve Killed”: The Barton Massacre of 23 January 1857, Part Four
  • “Rest Not Untill You Have Destroyed Them”: The Barton Massacre of 23 January 1857, Part Three

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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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