Law & Crime “The Enactment of Idiotic Laws Has Been a Monomania . . . to Force Us to Adopt the Most Restrictive Ideas of the Dark Ages”: The Primary Candidacy of Boyle Workman for Mayor of Los Angeles, 3 May 1921, Part Three by homesteadmuseum Posted on May 6, 2025May 6, 2025 Read More
Holidays & Celebrations “These Priests . . . by the Help of the Aborigines, Made the Wilderness ‘Blossom Like the Rose'”: California Indians in Ballou’s Pictorial, 2 May 1857 by homesteadmuseum Posted on May 2, 2025 Read More
Places & Communities “My Boyle Heights Property Is Just What You Want”: The Many and Varied Activities of William H. Workman in 1903, Part Two by homesteadmuseum Posted on April 27, 2025 Read More
Agriculture Celebrating Earth Day With a Real Photo Postcard of the Figueroa Street Nursery of Itsusuke (George) Zaima, Los Angeles, ca. 1910s by homesteadmuseum Posted on April 14, 2025 Read More
Biographies Celebrating Earth Day With an Ink Blotter From the Pico Street Nursery of Joe M. Yoshida, ca. 1920s by homesteadmuseum Posted on April 12, 2025April 13, 2025 Read More
Architecture & Decoration “This Stately Temple, in its Incomparable Beauty, is Their Monument . . . to California and its Hallowed Traditions”: A Program for the New Mission Playhouse, San Gabriel, 5 March 1927 by homesteadmuseum Posted on March 9, 2025March 9, 2025 Read More
Leisure/Entertainments Striking a Chord Among The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County With Concerts by the Tennessee Jubilee Singers, January 1876 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 25, 2025 Read More
Commerce & Manufacturing The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: Mining Media References to African-Americans in the 1860s by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 24, 2025September 5, 2025 Read More
Commerce & Manufacturing The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: Mining Media References to African-Americans in the 1850s by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 23, 2025 Read More
Film “The Great Spirit Took Mona, But in This Girl She Still Lives”: Sharing History in Alhambra About Josephine M. Workman as Early Film Star Princess Mona Darkfeather, 1911-1916 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 12, 2025February 15, 2025 Read More