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Category: Biographies

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From Point A to Point B: Ross M.G. Phillips and the Golden State Motor Car, Los Angeles, 1905-1907

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 3, 2022June 4, 2022
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That’s a Wrap in the Portrait Gallery with a Studio Portrait of Screenwriter and Director Harry O. Hoyt, 1925

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 21, 2022May 22, 2022
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“Romance Never Dies in Old San Gabriel”: A New Donation of Artifacts Related to the Mission Play, 1910s-1930s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 19, 2022
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Reading Between the Lines in Letters from Jeanette Friend de Temple to Laura González and Francisca Valenzuela, 1893-1894

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 11, 2022
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“The Old Customs and Happy, Care-Free Days Have Passed Away”: Mattie Laura Jodon’s “The Old Puente Rancho” in The Land of Sunshine, May 1898

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 5, 2022May 5, 2022
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“I Shall Not Play a One-String Fiddle If I Am Elected”: A Campaign Pamphlet for Mayoral Candidate Bert L. Farmer, Los Angeles, Spring 1923

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 2, 2022
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“As Fine a Collection of Young America As One Would Care to See”: A Pass for the Pasadena-San Gabriel Valley Council Boy Scout Exposition, 27-28 April 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 30, 2022
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A Friend Indeed: A Conveyance of “Mission Tract” Land at El Monte from Volney E. Howard to William Workman, 20 April 1863, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 26, 2022
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A Friend Indeed: A Conveyance of “Mission Tract” Land at El Monte from Volney E. Howard to William Workman, 20 April 1863, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 25, 2022April 26, 2022
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Sharing the History of L. Paul Grant and his Valparaiso Recreation Center

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 18, 2022
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Recent Posts

  • Treading the Boards with a Program from the Majestic Theatre for “The Desert Song,” 3-9 July 1928
  • “The Most Glorious Crusade in All History”: The Patriotic War Number of the Los Angeles Times for Independence Day 1898
  • “Probably a Record Unequaled On a Property of This Kind in the History of California”: A Quartet of Letters Concerning North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 3 July 1914
  • “The Greatest Attraction in the Southwest This Year”: The Opening of the American Historical Review and Motion Picture Industrial Exposition, Los Angeles, 2 July 1923
  • “The Climatic Capital of the New World”: A Pamphlet on “Los Angeles: The Metropolis of the Southwest,” 1 July 1926

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