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Tag: 1860s Los Angeles history

  • Agriculture

Shell Game, Part Three: Some Early History of Walnuts in Los Angeles, January-February 1867

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 26, 2025September 28, 2025
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County, 1850-1900, Presentation Postview: Implementing the 15th Amendment in Los Angeles, 1870

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 17, 2023July 22, 2024
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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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  • Places & Communities

A Changing Silhouette Postview: The Wedding Dress of Maria E. Boyle Workman, 1867

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 20, 2023March 21, 2023
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  • Economics

Wool Worth: Working the Land With A Contract Between F.P.F. Temple and Andrew Kittilson, 4 February 1869

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 5, 2023
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  • Agriculture

Here Comes the Flood: The Deluge of December 1861-January 1862 in Greater Los Angeles

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 10, 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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  • Agriculture

“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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  • Agriculture

“Nature Has Done Everything For It, And Man Very Little”: A Description of Greater Los Angeles in the New-York Semi-Weekly Times, 8 November 1867, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 9, 2022
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  • Agriculture

“Nature Has Done Everything For It, And Man Very Little”: A Description of Greater Los Angeles in the New-York Semi-Weekly Times, 8 November 1867, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 8, 2022
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