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Category: Holidays & Celebrations

  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Read All About It While Drilling for Black Gold in “California Oil World,” 27 December 1923

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 27, 2023December 27, 2023
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

The Evolution of Christmas: Selling the Holiday in Los Angeles With a Letter from the Office of Santa Claus, Bullock’s Department Store, December 1922

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 23, 2023
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

The Evolution of Christmas: Selling the Holiday with “Gifts for Everyone” from The Broadway Department Store, Los Angeles, 1922

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  • Posted on December 17, 2023
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  • Biographies

The Evolution of Christmas: Selling the Holiday with Christopher’s Candies Shop, Los Angeles, ca. 1908

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 10, 2023December 11, 2023
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The Evolution of Christmas: Selling the Holiday in Los Angeles with “Treasures” from Brock and Company Jewelers, December 1928

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  • Posted on December 2, 2023
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

The Temples’ Ties To Thanksgiving, 1903-1929

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  • Posted on November 22, 2023
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

“The Voice of the Veterans”: Commemorating Veterans Day with “The Dugout” Magazine, 1919, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 11, 2023
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

“There Will be ‘Something Doing’ Among the Young Folks of the Land Tonight”: Halloween Celebrations in Los Angeles in 1900

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 31, 2023September 30, 2025
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

La La Landscapes: A Photo of the 3rd Annual Chrysanthemum Fair, Los Angeles, October 1891

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  • Posted on October 25, 2023
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  • Agriculture

Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Thomas Van Deusen to William Workman, 5 October 1856

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  • Posted on October 5, 2023
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  • “A Luster Undimmed by the Tears of the Innocent Victims of the Earth’s Greatest Curse”: Prohibition as Patriotism in the Rev. Ervin S. Chapman’s “A Stainless Flag,” 1907, Part Three
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  • Ascending Spanish Steps With a Postcard of the Gainsborough Heath Sales Office, San Marino, postmarked 11 June 1929, Part Four

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