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Category: Politics & Government

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“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

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  • Posted on May 27, 2023
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Sharing History with the Civil War Roundtable of Orange County: Charles M. Jenkins and His Postwar Years in Los Angeles, 1865-1933

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  • Posted on May 16, 2023May 16, 2023
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Sharing History with the San Gabriel Historical Association on the Workman and Temple Family and Their “Mission City Affinity”

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  • Posted on May 15, 2023May 16, 2023
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 12 May 1874

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  • Posted on May 13, 2023May 14, 2023
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“We Are the Legitimate Outgrowth of American Character and Ideals”: Saturday Night Magazine, Los Angeles, 26 April 1924

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  • Posted on April 26, 2023April 27, 2023
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“The Appreciation by the Public That I Was Worthy of Trust”: A Receipt from William H. Workman, City Treasurer, Los Angeles, 22 April 1903

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  • Posted on April 22, 2023April 23, 2023
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“A Pacific Railroad is . . . Worthy of a Great and Powerful Nation”: A Report by the Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad, House of Representatives, 13 April 1860, Part Four

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  • Posted on April 19, 2023April 19, 2023
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“A Pacific Railroad is . . . Worthy of a Great and Powerful Nation”: A Report by the Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad, House of Representatives, 13 April 1860, Part Three

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  • Posted on April 17, 2023April 18, 2023
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“A Pacific Railroad is . . . Worthy of a Great and Powerful Nation”: A Report by the Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad, House of Representatives, 13 April 1860, Part Two

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  • Posted on April 15, 2023
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“A Pacific Railroad is . . . Worthy of a Great and Powerful Nation”: A Report by the Select Committee on the Pacific Railroad, House of Representatives, 13 April 1860, Part One

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  • Posted on April 13, 2023April 13, 2023
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  • “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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We're joining the Archive Babies hashtag today with a couple of photos from our collection!
Sunday, May 7, from 12-4 p.m.
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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