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Category: Society

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The Charles M. Jenkins Diary: January 1865

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 20, 2016December 30, 2020
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  • Biographies

Newly Discovered Diary of Union Soldier Charles M. Jenkins

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 6, 2016December 30, 2020
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Artifact Spotlight: The Floods of 1914

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 18, 2015December 29, 2020
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The Safe End of the Rope: The Alvitre/Brown Affair of 1855

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 15, 2015December 28, 2020
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Office work, Los Angeles, 1924.
  • Women

Women in the wartime workplace

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 17, 2014January 8, 2021
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Campaign button, Alfred Smith and Joseph Robinson, 1928. From the Homestead Museum collection.
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Election Day is coming!

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 3, 2014January 8, 2021
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Magazine, Modern Priscilla, October 1928.
  • Women

Women & Beauty in the 1920s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 23, 2014January 8, 2021
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Catarrah Balsam, manufactured by Dr. J.B. Lynas & Son, Logansport, IN, 1920s.
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It’s almost “grippe” season!

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 25, 2014January 8, 2021
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  • Staff & Events

On corsets, crinolines, and cinching

  • by lhc123
  • Posted on June 10, 2014January 8, 2021
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Postcard of Glendale Sanitarium, ca. 1910s.
  • Health & Medicine

California: A Health-Seeker’s Paradise?

  • by lhc123
  • Posted on April 22, 2014January 8, 2021
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