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Tag: 1850s Los Angeles history

  • Economics

Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from John H. Bancroft to F.P.F. Temple, 2 March 1858

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 1, 2025March 1, 2025
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  • Places & Communities

“To Seek Your Fortune Among Strangers In a Strange Land”: Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Cynthia Temple to F.P.F. Temple, 15 July 1856

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 15, 2023July 15, 2023
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  • Biographies

“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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 27, 2023
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  • Law & Crime

“For Revenge on the Ones Who Have Slain Them”: The Barton Massacre of 23 January 1857, Part Five

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 28, 2023January 29, 2023
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  • Law & Crime

“God Grant That Our Citizens May Never Witness the Like Again”: The Legal and Extralegal Executions of Felipe Alvitre and David Brown, 12 January 1855, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 15, 2023
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  • Law & Crime

“Their Destinies Should Be United, and Live or Die Together”: The Legal and Extralegal Executions of Felipe Alvitre and David Brown, 12 January 1855, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 14, 2023
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  • Law & Crime

“Let Us Be Ready, When the Time Arrives, To Act”: The Legal and Extralegal Executions of Felipe Alvitre and David Brown, 12 January 1855, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 12, 2023January 13, 2023
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  • Law & Crime

“Shall Powerful Friends and Money, Color and Race and Legal Nothingisms Continue to Neutralize Our Judiciary?”: The Legal and Extralegal Executions of Felipe Alvitre and David Brown, 12 January 1855, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 11, 2023January 12, 2023
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  • Disasters

Shake, Rattle and Roll: The Last “Big One” in Southern California, The Fort Tejon Earthquake of 9 January 1857

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 9, 2023January 10, 2023
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  • Biographies

“Influences That Mastered and Destroyed the Strong Man That Has Just Fallen”: The Tragedy of Damien Marchessault, 1818-1868

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 13, 2022December 14, 2022
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