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Tag: 1880s Los Angeles history

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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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Posted on September 21, 2022September 22, 2022
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Take It to the Bank: A Temple and Workman Bank Check for Joseph Walter Drown, 16 September 1872, Part Two

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  • Posted on September 17, 2022
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Through the Viewfinder: A Stereoscopic Photograph of the Los Angeles County Courthouse, ca. early 1880s

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  • Posted on September 14, 2022September 15, 2022
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“All That Goes to Make Up the Sum Total of Human Happiness”: Selling Greater Los Angeles in a Letter and Literature from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 24 July 1928

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  • Posted on July 24, 2022
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What’s In Store: A Letter from A. Hamburger & Sons, Inc., Los Angeles, 9 July 1913.

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  • Posted on July 9, 2022July 10, 2022
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Hail to the Chief: William Mulholland’s Rise as Los Angeles’ Water Guru, 1877-1902

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  • Posted on July 8, 2022July 9, 2022
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At Our Leisure: The Early History of Switzer’s Camp in the Arroyo Seco, San Gabriel Mountains, 1885

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  • Posted on June 30, 2022July 1, 2022
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  • “Spirit of the Savage Sensing the Approach of his White Conquerors”: Treading the Boards with a Program for the Mission Play, San Gabriel, 1913
  • From Point A to Point B with the Los Angeles Railway’s Azuride Pocket Newsletter, 1 February 1929
  • Read All About It in the Los Angeles Herald, 31 January 1875
  • Reading Between the Lines in Letters to F.P.F. Temple From his Sister Clarinda Bancroft and Niece Lucinda Sanborn, 30 January 1842
  • “In Defending This People From Danger”: The Barton Massacre of 23 January 1857, Part Six

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(Left) Historic photo of original Agnes Temple window in La Casa Nueva's Main Hall, ca. 1927
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