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Tag: 1880s Los Angeles history

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The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: R.C.O. Benjamin, California’s First African-American Practicing Attorney, Part Six

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 21, 2025August 21, 2025
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Drilling for Black Gold: Sharing Early Olinda (Brea) Oil History With the Orange County Historical Society, 1865-1889, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 18, 2025
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  • Biographies

Drilling for Black Gold: Sharing Early Olinda (Brea) Oil History With the Orange County Historical Society, 1865-1889, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 17, 2025
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  • Architecture & Decoration

Take It On Faith Through the Viewfinder: The Fort Street (First) Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, ca. 1882

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 11, 2023June 12, 2023
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“The Higher Possibilities of our City by the Sunset Sea”: George Wharton James and his “A Vision for Los Angeles,” Out West Magazine, May 1913, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 4, 2023
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Herald, 12 April 1890

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 12, 2023
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  • Places & Communities

From Point A to Point B Along the Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Railroad, 1883-1888

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 11, 2022
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  • Biographies

Reading Between the Lines While Working the Land: A Letter from Nicolasa Urioste de Workman to Richard Garvey, 21 November 1880

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 12, 2022November 13, 2022
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Yet Another Bird’s-Eye View of Los Angeles: The Westlake Park Area, 14 October 1925 and Some Early History of the Park, 1887-1890

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 14, 2022October 15, 2022
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Fraternal Odds and Ends with the 64th Annual Communication of the International Order of Odd Fellows, Los Angeles, 17-21 September 1888

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 21, 2022September 22, 2022
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