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The Evolution of Christmas: Selling the Holiday in Los Angeles with The Elite Caterers and Confectioners, 1924

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 10, 2022December 10, 2022
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“Nature Has Done Everything For It, And Man Very Little”: A Description of Greater Los Angeles in the New-York Semi-Weekly Times, 8 November 1867, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 9, 2022
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“It is Our Aim to Place Within the Reach of the Consumer the Genuine Article at Reasonable Figures”: A Letter from the Germain Fruit Company Wine Department, Los Angeles, 20 October 1893

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 21, 2022
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Read All About It: The McDonald Murder in the Los Angeles Express, 29 September 1874

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  • Posted on September 30, 2022
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“Right Here, in Our Midst, a New Kind of Industry is Springing Up”: A Report on “The Wine-Growing Capacity of California” in the New York Weekly Tribune, 27 June 1866

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  • Posted on June 27, 2022
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Food for Thought While Looking Through the Viewfinder: The Vegetarian Cafeteria, Hill and 3rd Streets, Los Angeles, 1915

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  • Posted on June 12, 2022June 12, 2022
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That’s a Wrap At a Dinner by Louis B. Mayer for Marcus Loew and Richard A. Rowland, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 2 December 1922

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 2, 2021
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“The Glory of the California Soil and Climate Is Concentrated in the Grape”: The San Gabriel Wine Company Winery in “Harper’s Weekly,” 4 November 1899

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  • Posted on November 4, 2021
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Reading Between the Lines: A Letter from Giovanni Piuma to Walter P. Temple on a Winery License Election Measure in Los Angeles County, 2 November 1910

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  • Posted on November 2, 2021
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Wo/Men at Work, Labor Day Edition: Employees of the Los Angeles Creamery Company, Van Nuys/Panorama City, ca. 1925

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 6, 2021September 6, 2021
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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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