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Of Pigeons and Polygamy: The Strange Saga of J.Y. Johnson’s Los Angeles Pigeon Farm, 1898-1914

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  • Posted on January 18, 2020December 28, 2020
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Here Comes the Flood: A United States Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper, “Southern California Floods of January, 1916,” 1918

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  • Posted on January 11, 2020December 28, 2020
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From Point A to Point B: Photos of a Pickwick Airways Crash, Los Angeles, 7 August 1929

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 7, 2019December 30, 2020
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Shake, Rattle and Roll: A Report on “Earthquakes and Earthquake Insurance in California,” July 1928

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  • Posted on July 17, 2019January 7, 2021
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On This Day: Flood Photos from South Los Angeles, 29 March 1925

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  • Posted on March 29, 2019December 29, 2020
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Noah’s Flood in an ARkStorm on the San Gabriel River/Rio Hondo in Whittier Narrows

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  • Posted on February 23, 2019January 7, 2021
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Here Comes the Flood: The Deluge of January and February 1914

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  • Posted on January 17, 2019January 29, 2022
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The Fire at the Belmont Hotel, Los Angeles, 16 December 1887

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  • Posted on December 16, 2018January 16, 2021
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From Point A to Point B: The Los Angeles Auto Show of 1929

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 2, 2018December 30, 2020
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Reading Photographs Differently: Re-Viewing an Image of the Inglewood Earthquake of 1920

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  • Posted on August 28, 2018January 8, 2021
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Recent Posts

  • “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
  • “The Fact That This Class of People Are Buying in This Property Speaks for Itself”: Letters Regarding North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 25-26 May 1913
  • Getting Schooled With Helen M. Pierce’s “The Graduate School Days” Scrapbook, Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, 1917
  • Treading the Boards with a Program for “Beau Brummel,” Belasco Theatre, Los Angeles, the Week of 24 May 1909
  • Through the Viewfinder with Snapshots of the Will Keith Kellogg Ranch, Spadra (Pomona), ca. 1925

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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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