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Read All About it While Drilling for Black Gold in “California Oil World,” 13 September 1923

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  • Posted on September 13, 2026September 13, 2026
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Doors Open California Preview: La Casa Nueva Contractor Sylvester J. Cook (1856-1950)

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  • Posted on September 12, 2026
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From Kleptomaniac Maid to Maternity Hospital Matron: A Press Photo of Etta Bell Heil, Los Angeles, 10 September 1925

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  • Posted on September 10, 2026September 11, 2026
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Trails, Tracks and Thoroughfares: Routes of Travel Through the San Gabriel Valley, 1851-1926, Part Two

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  • Posted on August 30, 2026
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Trails, Tracks and Thoroughfares: Routes of Travel Through the San Gabriel Valley, 1851-1926, Part One

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  • Posted on August 29, 2026
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“Our Business Here is to Keep Cool and Self Possessed”: The Failure of the Bank of California in San Francisco and the Banks of Los Angeles, 26 August 1875, Part Two

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  • Posted on August 28, 2026
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“Los Angeles Never Stood So Well As She Does Now”: The Failure of the Bank of California in San Francisco and the Banks of Los Angeles, 26 August 1875, Part One

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  • Posted on August 27, 2026
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“She Is Dead Now, But I Still Love Her and I Don’t Care What Becomes of Me”: The Death of Theresa Weinstein Moers by Boxer Kid McCoy, August 1924, Part Two

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  • Posted on August 20, 2026
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“It Ain’t Right, Judge, When a Woman Slaps You and the Dogs Keep the House in an Uproar”: The Death of Theresa Weinstein Moers by Boxer Kid McCoy, August 1924, Part One

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  • Posted on August 18, 2026August 20, 2026
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Drilling for Black Gold With the Union Oil Company of California Bulletin, August 1922

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  • Posted on August 17, 2026August 18, 2026
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  • Read All About it While Drilling for Black Gold in “California Oil World,” 13 September 1923
  • Doors Open California Preview: La Casa Nueva Contractor Sylvester J. Cook (1856-1950)
  • From Kleptomaniac Maid to Maternity Hospital Matron: A Press Photo of Etta Bell Heil, Los Angeles, 10 September 1925
  • “The Destiny of California Will Be Upward and Onward”: California Admission Day in Los Angeles Newspapers, 1871-1880
  • “It Isn’t Strange the Laymen Are Wondering What is the Matter With Our Code of Criminal Procedure”: The Death of Theresa Weinstein Moers by Boxer Kid McCoy, August 1924, Part Twelve

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