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Category: Historic Preservation & Research

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Permanent Marker: Celebrating National Historic Marker Day with the Homestead’s State Historic Landmark Plaques

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 29, 2022April 29, 2022
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  • Historic Preservation & Research

Get the Picture? Letters from J. Perry Worden to Walter P. Temple and Milton Kauffman, 13 March 1926

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 13, 2022March 15, 2022
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  • Historic Preservation & Research

Taken for Granite: Photos of Restoration of Decorative Plaster at the Workman House, 1978

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 15, 2021
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  • Historic Preservation & Research

Behind the Scenes Preview: The Evolution of La Casa Nueva, 1922-1927

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 26, 2021
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  • Historic Preservation & Research

A Touch of Glass: Photos of the Original Stained Glass Windows of Thomas and Agnes Temple, La Casa Nueva, 20 November 1979

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 20, 2020December 30, 2020
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  • Historic Preservation & Research

A Half-Dozen Photos of Early Restoration Work at the Homestead, 8 November 1976

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 8, 2020December 30, 2020
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  • Historic Preservation & Research

Our Personal Connections with History

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 19, 2020December 30, 2020
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  • Historic Preservation & Research

A Diamond in the Rough: A Septet of Photos of the Homestead, 25 September 1976

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 25, 2020December 30, 2020
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  • Agriculture

The Unfurling Story of the Homestead’s Grapevines

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 27, 2020December 29, 2020
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  • Historic Preservation & Research

Going With the Flow: The Homestead’s Water Tower

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 31, 2020December 29, 2020
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  • Getting Schooled with a Postcard from Heald’s Southern California Business College, Los Angeles, ca. 1910
  • “Destiny Decided Differently”: A Donation of the Diary of Louis Adrien Davoust, 1846-1847
  • Games People Play: The Los Angeles Athletic Club’s Weekly Magazine, “Mercury,” 23 May 1918.
  • “A Curse and Scourge Upon the Most Magnificent Portions of the American Empire”: Government Letters Concerning Fraud in California Land Claims, 1858-1860
  • That’s a Wrap in the Portrait Gallery with a Studio Portrait of Screenwriter and Director Harry O. Hoyt, 1925

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Here's a photo of our demonstration vineyard at the museum! It's located just outside the decorated bedroom in our previous photo.
Check out this bedroom in the Workman House! Photo courtesy of @dlnguyenphoto.
FEMALE JUSTICE: Maud Kafitz
Come join us for our Open Air Art Day today!!! We've already had several artistic masterpieces created today. We'll be here until 4.
Aerial view of the grounds: Walter P. Temple, Jr., whose family owned the Homestead in the 1920s, later became an enthusiastic amateur painter and this aerial view of the ranch, made from the photograph below, shows what he once said in an oral history that it was something of a mini-Disneyland for a teenager! (he also has this sentence paired with the aerial view photo.
Painting by Wally Temple

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