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Tag: 1850s Los Angeles history

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“The Instrument of Rescuing from Oblivion a Portion of the Early History of our Country”: An Historical Sketch of Los Angeles County, California, November 1876, Part Six

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 27, 2022
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“The Instrument of Rescuing from Oblivion a Portion of the Early History of our Country”: An Historical Sketch of Los Angeles County, California, November 1876, Part Five

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 26, 2022
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“The Instrument of Rescuing from Oblivion a Portion of the Early History of our Country”: An Historical Sketch of Los Angeles County, California, November 1876, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 23, 2022November 24, 2022
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Take It to the Bank: A Temple and Workman Bank Check for Joseph Walter Drown, 16 September 1872, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 16, 2022September 17, 2022
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Read All about It: News from Los Angeles in the New York Spectator, 14 August 1851

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 14, 2022August 14, 2022
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from John H. Bancroft to F.P.F. Temple, 2 August 1856

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 2, 2022August 3, 2022
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At Our Leisure: The Early History of Switzer’s Camp in the Arroyo Seco, San Gabriel Mountains, 1885

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 30, 2022July 1, 2022
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“One of the Most Startling Transactions that Has Ever Come Within Our Knowledge”: Lynch Law at Lexington and El Monte, May/June 1855

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 25, 2022June 26, 2022
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In the Abstract: Jonathan Temple and the Future International Savings and Exchange Bank Property, Los Angeles, 1839-1866

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 22, 2022June 23, 2022
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Reading Between the Lines in a Trio of Letters to William Workman by Volney E. Howard, 1854-1861

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 20, 2022September 16, 2023
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