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Tag: 1890s Los Angeles

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Reading Between the Lines in Letters from Jeanette Friend de Temple to Laura González and Francisca Valenzuela, 1893-1894

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 11, 2022
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Through the Viewfinder: A Panoramic Negative of Main and First Streets, Los Angeles, 1901

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 18, 2021
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Through the Viewfinder: A Cabinet Card Photograph of Sixth Street Park (Pershing Square) and St. Paul’s Episcopalian Church, Los Angeles, ca. early 1890s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 13, 2021September 14, 2021
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A Vintage Artifact: A Trade Card From Paul Wack’s Hillside Winery, Los Angeles, 1 September 1890

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 1, 2021September 2, 2021
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“The Geologic Mother of Southern California”: The Mountain Number of “The Land of Sunshine,” August 1895

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  • Posted on August 3, 2021
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“It is No Fool’s Paradise, Nor Boomer’s Dream”: Los Angeles as “The Metropolis of the Southwest” in Land of Sunshine Magazine, June 1895

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  • Posted on June 1, 2021
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“In Oriental Splendor and Asiatic Beauty”: The “Paralyzing Monster” of the Chinese Dragon, La Fiesta de Los Angeles, late 1890s

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  • Posted on May 13, 2021February 18, 2022
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Through the Viewfinder: Marchessault Street West from Juan Street, Chinatown, Los Angeles, ca. 1898

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 6, 2021
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“A Halo of Romance”: The Program for La Fiesta de Los Angeles, 20-24 April 1897

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  • Posted on April 24, 2021
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Well Marbled: A Letter from The National Bank of California’s President, John M.C. Marble, Los Angeles, 2 April 1890

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  • Posted on April 2, 2021
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Here's a photo of our demonstration vineyard at the museum! It's located just outside the decorated bedroom in our previous photo.
Check out this bedroom in the Workman House! Photo courtesy of @dlnguyenphoto.
FEMALE JUSTICE: Maud Kafitz
Come join us for our Open Air Art Day today!!! We've already had several artistic masterpieces created today. We'll be here until 4.
Aerial view of the grounds: Walter P. Temple, Jr., whose family owned the Homestead in the 1920s, later became an enthusiastic amateur painter and this aerial view of the ranch, made from the photograph below, shows what he once said in an oral history that it was something of a mini-Disneyland for a teenager! (he also has this sentence paired with the aerial view photo.
Painting by Wally Temple

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