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Games People Play: The Los Angeles Athletic Club’s Weekly Magazine, “Mercury,” 23 May 1918.

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  • Posted on May 23, 2022May 24, 2022
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Through the Viewfinder with a Photo of Angelus Hospital, Los Angeles, 1906

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  • Posted on May 14, 2022
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No Place Like Home: Dr. Joseph P. Widney’s “Sanitary Defects in Houses and Manner of Living” from the Los Angeles Commercial, 8 May 1881

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  • Posted on May 8, 2022
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“While there is Life there’s Hope”: Sophisticated Humor and Current Affairs in “Life” Magazine, 1 March 1928

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  • Posted on March 1, 2022March 2, 2022
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“Along Those Lines Conducive to the Uplift of Humanity”: Eulogizing Dr. Norman Bridge in “The Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Medical Association,” 5 February 1925

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  • Posted on February 5, 2022February 7, 2022
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“We Have Drunk Deep of the Cup of Affliction”: Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Clarinda Temple Bancroft to F.P.F. Temple, 18 January 1857

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  • Posted on January 18, 2022February 3, 2022
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Portrait Gallery: James P. McFarland, Early Los Angeles Doctor and Druggist, ca. late 1850s

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  • Posted on December 1, 2021
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“It Is An Eminently Cheerful Region”: A Discussion of Southern California’s Climate and “Sanitary Conditions” in “The Medical Record,” 30 October 1886

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  • Posted on October 30, 2021
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“The Queen City of the Pacific Will Be Los Angeles”: The Promotion of Greater Los Angeles in the “Illustrated Los Angeles Herald,” September 1887, Part Two

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  • Posted on September 21, 2021
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Wo/men (In Training) at Work: The La Marillac Yearbook for the St. Vincent’s Hospital School of Nursing, Los Angeles, July 1928

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  • Posted on July 26, 2021July 26, 2021
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  • That’s a Wrap in the Portrait Gallery with a Studio Portrait of Screenwriter and Director Harry O. Hoyt, 1925

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Here's a photo of our demonstration vineyard at the museum! It's located just outside the decorated bedroom in our previous photo.
Check out this bedroom in the Workman House! Photo courtesy of @dlnguyenphoto.
FEMALE JUSTICE: Maud Kafitz
Come join us for our Open Air Art Day today!!! We've already had several artistic masterpieces created today. We'll be here until 4.
Aerial view of the grounds: Walter P. Temple, Jr., whose family owned the Homestead in the 1920s, later became an enthusiastic amateur painter and this aerial view of the ranch, made from the photograph below, shows what he once said in an oral history that it was something of a mini-Disneyland for a teenager! (he also has this sentence paired with the aerial view photo.
Painting by Wally Temple

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