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Twists and Turns in the Twenties Postview: La Casa Nueva Architect Roy Seldon Price (1889-1940)

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  • Posted on April 16, 2023April 17, 2023
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Making a Statement: A “Report of Receipts and Expenditures” for Walter P. Temple, 18 February to 17 March 1921

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  • Posted on March 17, 2023March 17, 2023
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Striking a Chord with “The Overture,” 15 February 1925

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  • Posted on February 15, 2023February 16, 2023
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That’s a Wrap with a Press Photo of the Bullet Used in the Murder of Film Director William Desmond Taylor, 8 February 1922

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  • Posted on February 8, 2023February 8, 2023
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Games People Play: William W. Temple and Early California Baseball, 1867-1875

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  • Posted on February 3, 2023
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“Aye, Revenge on Their Murderers!”: The Barton Massacre of 23 January 1857, Part One

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  • Posted on January 23, 2023January 23, 2023
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“Where It is Always Afternoon to the Lover of the Cycle”: Charles Fuller Gates’ “Cycling in Southern California” in The Land of Sunshine, June 1896

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  • Posted on June 1, 2022May 31, 2023
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Walter P. Temple to Thomas W. Temple II, 15 March 1929

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  • Posted on March 15, 2022
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“While there is Life there’s Hope”: Sophisticated Humor and Current Affairs in “Life” Magazine, 1 March 1928

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  • Posted on March 1, 2022March 2, 2022
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“The Accomplishment of an Ideal”: The Opening of the Temple Theater, Alhambra, 23 December 1921

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  • Posted on December 23, 2021December 24, 2021
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  • “Valuable Services of an Executive and Business Nature”: An Agreement Regarding the Temple Estate Company, 2 June 1924
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  • “To Promote in the Study of the Development of Civilization in England and America”: The Third Annual Report of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1929-1930, Part One
  • No Place Like Home: The Best Laid Plans of Architect Anton W. Riewe for Antonio Merlo’s Proposed House, Avocado Heights, ca. 1920s
  • At Our Leisure with Photos from Switzer’s Camp, San Gabriel Mountains, 30 May 1921

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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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