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“A Curse and Scourge Upon the Most Magnificent Portions of the American Empire”: Government Letters Concerning Fraud in California Land Claims, 1858-1860

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 22, 2022
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Star, 28 April 1874

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  • Posted on April 28, 2022
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Reading Between the Lines in a Trio of Letters to William Workman by Volney E. Howard, 1854-1861

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  • Posted on April 20, 2022
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“The Fighting District Attorney”: A Press Photograph of Thomas Lee Woolwine, Los Angeles, 11 April 1919

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 10, 2022April 10, 2022
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Read All About It with Items on Indian Slavery and a Military Execution from California in the “New York Illustrated News,” 2 April 1853

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 3, 2022
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“A Concrete Illustration of the Value of Free Discussion”: The Southern California Branch of the ACLU’s “The Open Forum,” 30 March 1929

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  • Posted on March 30, 2022March 30, 2022
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“We Have Made a Number of Blunders During Our Career”: The Los Angeles Investment Company Building, 1912, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 26, 2022March 27, 2022
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“A Well-Known Character About Town”: Robert Turnbull, the Namesake of Turnbull Canyon, Puente Hills

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  • Posted on March 23, 2022
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“A Condensed and Systematic Review”: Local Conditions in State Engineer William Hammond Hall’s “Irrigation in Southern California,” 1888, Part Five

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  • Posted on March 7, 2022
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“The Boldest Gang of Bandits That Ever Infested The City”: The High Powered Rifle Bandit Gang Captured in Los Angeles, 28 February 1916

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  • Posted on February 28, 2022March 2, 2022
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Recent Posts

  • Getting Schooled with a Postcard from Heald’s Southern California Business College, Los Angeles, ca. 1910
  • “Destiny Decided Differently”: A Donation of the Diary of Louis Adrien Davoust, 1846-1847
  • Games People Play: The Los Angeles Athletic Club’s Weekly Magazine, “Mercury,” 23 May 1918.
  • “A Curse and Scourge Upon the Most Magnificent Portions of the American Empire”: Government Letters Concerning Fraud in California Land Claims, 1858-1860
  • 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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