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Category: Holidays & Celebrations

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Getting Schooled With Helen M. Pierce’s “The Graduate School Days” Scrapbook, Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, 1917

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 25, 2023
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

Take It On Faith With a Press Photo of the Easter Sunrise Service at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, 4 April 1926

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  • Posted on April 9, 2023April 10, 2023
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“All Hail to King Orange” With a Postcard for Orange Day, 20 March 1915

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 21, 2023March 21, 2023
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“A Community Unparalleled in the Manifold Fusions of Races or Combinations of Men”: The “Birth-Day of California” in Littell’s Living Age, 15 March 1851

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 15, 2023March 16, 2023
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Herald, 11 March 1875

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 11, 2023March 11, 2023
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“One of the Most Famous Private Pleasure Places in Southern California”: The Homestead and the Elks Fraternal Order, 1920-1921

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 11, 2023February 12, 2023
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“States and Nations in Flowers”: The 39th Annual Tournament of Roses, Pasadena, 2 January 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 2, 2023January 2, 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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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Herald, 27 December 1874

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  • Posted on December 27, 2022
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The Evolution of Christmas: Selling the Holiday in Los Angeles with a Bullock’s “For the Men’s Christmas” Catalog, Los Angeles, circa 1914

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 23, 2022
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  • Take It On Faith: “Buried With Christ in Baptism by Immersion” by Aimee Semple McPherson, Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, 28 May 1925
  • “His Sole Dependence for His Future Maintenance”: A Report to the United States Senate on the Memorial of William Money of Los Angeles, 27 May 1852
  • “The Fact That This Class of People Are Buying in This Property Speaks for Itself”: Letters Regarding North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 25-26 May 1913
  • Getting Schooled With Helen M. Pierce’s “The Graduate School Days” Scrapbook, Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, 1917
  • Treading the Boards with a Program for “Beau Brummel,” Belasco Theatre, Los Angeles, the Week of 24 May 1909

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Being in CA, we often think that slavery didn’t happen here, but after an enlightening and thought-provoking afternoon with Dr. Kevin Waite @kevinwaite yesterday discussing his book West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire all in attendance learned the true story. His book tackles the often untold history of how and why Southern slaveholders infiltrated the American West in the years leading up to the Civil War and how they kept a stranglehold there for decades to come.
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