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Tag: 1850s California

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California Admission Day in Los Angeles Newspapers, 1854-1869

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 9, 2025
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“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
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“A Series of Interesting Sketches and Scenes in California” in Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, 30 October 1852

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 30, 2024
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“Much Ignorance, Misapprehension, and Misconception”: A Memorial of California’s Senators and Representatives Asking for Admission to the Union, 18 March 1850

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 18, 2021
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The Inaugural Address of California Governor J. Neely Johnson, 9 January 1856

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 9, 2019December 29, 2020
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  • “The Manner of Her Paying is a Thing to Make Women Pause”: The Death of Theresa Weinstein Moers by Boxer Kid McCoy, August 1924, Part Three
  • “She Is Dead Now, But I Still Love Her and I Don’t Care What Becomes of Me”: The Death of Theresa Weinstein Moers by Boxer Kid McCoy, August 1924, Part Two
  • “It Ain’t Right, Judge, When a Woman Slaps You and the Dogs Keep the House in an Uproar”: The Death of Theresa Weinstein Moers by Boxer Kid McCoy, August 1924, Part One
  • Drilling for Black Gold With the Union Oil Company of California Bulletin, August 1922
  • No Place Like Home With a Photo of La Casa Nueva’s Courtyard Under Construction, 16 August 1924

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