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Tag: 1900s Los Angeles

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“Let Us At Least Draw the Line at Neglect and Desecration of the Cemeteries”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 3, 2026
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Wo/Men at Work, Labor Day Edition: A Photograph of California Portland Cement Company Workers, Colton, ca. 1900

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 7, 2026
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  • Biographies

Treading the Boards With a Program from the Unique Theatre, Los Angeles, the Week of 6 August 1906

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 6, 2026
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  • Architecture & Decoration

“A Model of Architectural Beauty and Well Calculated to Meet the Needs of the Work to be Done There”: The Construction of First African Methodist Episcopal Church, 8th Street and Towne Avenue, Los Angeles, 1903-1904

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 19, 2026
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

“A Luster Undimmed by the Tears of the Innocent Victims of the Earth’s Greatest Curse”: Prohibition as Patriotism in the Rev. Ervin S. Chapman’s “A Stainless Flag,” 1907, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 17, 2026
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  • Biographies

“A Luster Undimmed by the Tears of the Innocent Victims of the Earth’s Greatest Curse”: Prohibition as Patriotism in the Rev. Ervin S. Chapman’s “A Stainless Flag,” 1907, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 14, 2026June 14, 2026
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  • Law & Crime

“Something Should Be Done to Head Off These Fanatics Who Would Keep Our City in a Turmoil All the Time”: A Postcard by Michael Rieder on the Angel City Anti-Saloon Election of Spring 1905, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 3, 2026June 4, 2026
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  • Biographies

“Have You Seen This Boy?”: A Press Photo of the Missing Walter Collins, 19 April 1928, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 19, 2026April 19, 2026
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  • Agriculture

Temples of Trade Through the Viewfinder: A Photo of the Charles C. Chapman (Los Angeles Investment Company) Building, Broadway and 8th, Los Angeles, ca. 1924, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 26, 2026March 29, 2026
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  • Disasters

Wo/men at Work Through the Viewfinder With A Photo of Firefighters With Los Angeles Fire Department Engine Company #21, 11 March 1908

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 11, 2026
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  • “In The Old But Noted City, With Its Unsurpassed Almost Tropical Climate”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860
  • “All the Dignity of Former Days Has Departed, Leaving Tumbling Tombs and Caving Crypts to the Small Sympathy of Beast and Insect”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Five
  • “Old Calvary Has Become More Valuable to the Living Than to the Dead, And the March of Civilization is Soon to Overwhelm It”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Four
  • “The Family Legend of an Ancestor Being Lost in America”: Seeking George W. Pflugradt, 1819-1857
  • “Before This Historical Graveyard is Past All Hope of Preservation”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Three

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