Holidays & Celebrations “This Silent But Eloquent Expression of the Feeling That Should Exist in Everyone’s Hearts”: Decoration (Memorial) Day in Los Angeles, 1870-1875 by homesteadmuseum Posted on May 26, 2025May 25, 2026 Read More
Holidays & Celebrations “One of the Picturesque Observances of Modern Life”: Celebrating Mother’s Day in Greater Los Angeles, 9 May 1915 by homesteadmuseum Posted on May 11, 2025 Read More
Holidays & Celebrations “These Priests . . . by the Help of the Aborigines, Made the Wilderness ‘Blossom Like the Rose'”: California Indians in Ballou’s Pictorial, 2 May 1857 by homesteadmuseum Posted on May 2, 2025 Read More
Biographies “The Tournament of Roses is a Fixture . . . No Future New Year’s Day Will be Complete Without It”: A Photo of a Parade Float for the Tournament of Roses, 1 January 1892 by homesteadmuseum Posted on January 1, 2025 Read More
Commerce & Manufacturing The Evolution of Christmas: Holiday Observations in Los Angeles Newspapers, 1866-1868 by homesteadmuseum Posted on December 23, 2024December 23, 2024 Read More
Commerce & Manufacturing The Evolution of Christmas: Holiday Observations in Los Angeles Newspapers, 1861-1865 by homesteadmuseum Posted on December 16, 2024December 17, 2024 Read More
Education Read All About It While Getting Schooled in “The Siren,” the Hollenbeck Heights Junior High Newspaper, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, 13 December 1923 by homesteadmuseum Posted on December 13, 2024 Read More
Biographies Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Hatter Daniel Desmond, Los Angeles, 10 December 1876 by homesteadmuseum Posted on December 10, 2024December 11, 2024 Read More
Biographies The Evolution of Christmas: Holiday Observations in Los Angeles Newspapers, 1857-1860 by homesteadmuseum Posted on December 9, 2024 Read More
Commerce & Manufacturing The Evolution of Christmas: Holiday Observations in Los Angeles Newspapers, 1854-1856 by homesteadmuseum Posted on December 2, 2024 Read More
