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Category: Biographies

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No Place Like Home: The Best Laid Plans of Architect Anton W. Riewe for Antonio Merlo’s Proposed House, Avocado Heights, ca. 1920s

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  • Posted on May 31, 2023June 1, 2023
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A Memorial Day Observance of San Gabriel Valley Soldiers Who Sacrificed Their Lives from “The Upper San Gabriel Valley In The [First World] War”, 1919

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 29, 2023
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“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

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  • Posted on May 27, 2023
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Getting Schooled With Helen M. Pierce’s “The Graduate School Days” Scrapbook, Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, 1917

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  • Posted on May 25, 2023
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Treading the Boards with a Program for “Beau Brummel,” Belasco Theatre, Los Angeles, the Week of 24 May 1909

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  • Posted on May 24, 2023
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Through the Viewfinder with Snapshots of the Will Keith Kellogg Ranch, Spadra (Pomona), ca. 1925

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 23, 2023May 24, 2023
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Sharing History with the Chino Valley Historical Society about Antonio María Lugo (1778-1860)

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  • Posted on May 21, 2023
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“Almost as Good as Stumbling Over Lumps of Gold”: Arpad Haraszthy’s “Wine-Making in California” in The Overland Monthly, December 1871, Part One

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  • Posted on May 19, 2023
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Sharing History with the Civil War Roundtable of Orange County: Charles M. Jenkins and His Postwar Years in Los Angeles, 1865-1933

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  • Posted on May 16, 2023May 16, 2023
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No Place Like Home with The Architectural Digest, 1925, Part Three

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  • Posted on May 12, 2023May 13, 2023
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Recent Posts

  • “Valuable Services of an Executive and Business Nature”: An Agreement Regarding the Temple Estate Company, 2 June 1924
  • “To Promote in the Study of the Development of Civilization in England and America”: The Third Annual Report of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1929-1930, Part Two
  • “To Promote in the Study of the Development of Civilization in England and America”: The Third Annual Report of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1929-1930, Part One
  • No Place Like Home: The Best Laid Plans of Architect Anton W. Riewe for Antonio Merlo’s Proposed House, Avocado Heights, ca. 1920s
  • At Our Leisure with Photos from Switzer’s Camp, San Gabriel Mountains, 30 May 1921

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Happy #nationaltrailsday ! Here's a photo from 1906 featuring a man atop a mule while traveling Mt. Wilson. Do you have a local trail you love to walk?
Check out these then and now photos of our Mission Walkway. The top picture is from 1925 and features Thomas Temple!
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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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