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“Shall Powerful Friends and Money, Color and Race and Legal Nothingisms Continue to Neutralize Our Judiciary?”: The Legal and Extralegal Executions of Felipe Alvitre and David Brown, 12 January 1855, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 11, 2023January 12, 2023
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“The Instrument of Rescuing from Oblivion a Portion of the Early History of our Country”: An Historical Sketch of Los Angeles County, California, November 1876, Part Five

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 26, 2022
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“The Instrument of Rescuing from Oblivion a Portion of the Early History of our Country”: An Historical Sketch of Los Angeles County, California, November 1876, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 24, 2022November 24, 2022
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“The Instrument of Rescuing from Oblivion a Portion of the Early History of our Country”: An Historical Sketch of Los Angeles County, California, November 1876, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 23, 2022November 24, 2022
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“Nature Has Done Everything For It, And Man Very Little”: A Description of Greater Los Angeles in the New-York Semi-Weekly Times, 8 November 1867, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 8, 2022
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“Though Pumpkins Make Faces and Dance on Tombstones”: Hallowe’en-Related Artifacts From the Homestead’s Collection, 1911-1930

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 31, 2022March 1, 2023
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  • Economics

Read All About It: California Gold Rush Coverage in the New York Weekly Tribune, 13 October 1849, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 16, 2022
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Read All About It: California Gold Rush Coverage in the New York Weekly Tribune, 13 October 1849, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 15, 2022
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“The Stock Market Gives Every Indication of ‘Finding’ Itself”: Saturday Night Magazine, Los Angeles, 12 October 1929

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 12, 2022
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Read All About It: The McDonald Murder in the Los Angeles Express, 29 September 1874

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 30, 2022
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  • Treading the Boards with a Program from the Mason Opera House, Los Angeles, 30 March-1 April 1905
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  • Treading the Boards with a Program for “Desire Under the Elms,” Wilkes’ Orange Grove Theatre, Los Angeles, 28 March 1926
  • Striking a Chord with a Press Photo of Opera Singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink, February 1928
  • From Point A to Point B: Planning for the National Air Races at Los Angeles in Aviation Magazine, 26 March 1928

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A press photograph of Mary E. Foy, 1920. Foy was the first female head librarian of Los Angeles in 1880. Foy was honored by the democratic national committee in her work fighting for suffrage for women in California.
Sunday, March 19 at 2 p.m.
Gathering the Sparks of LA's Jewish Past with Edmon J. Rodman
Historic photo of Agnes Temple at the front door of La Casa Nueva ca. 1926 vs today.
A Memorial to the Pioneer Temple Family”: The Early History of Temple City, 1923-1930
Love Letters Tour

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