Architecture & Decoration The Evolution of Christmas: Selling the Holiday in Los Angeles With “Pleasing Homes” from Barker Brothers, December 1919 by homesteadmuseum Posted on December 3, 2022 Read More
Holidays & Celebrations “Though Pumpkins Make Faces and Dance on Tombstones”: Hallowe’en-Related Artifacts From the Homestead’s Collection, 1911-1930 by homesteadmuseum Posted on October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Read More
Education “Their Improvement in Personal Appearance and Intelligence of Countenance is Really Thrilling”: The Report on An Experiment Made in Los Angeles in the Summer of 1917 for the Americanization of Foreign-born Women, Part Two by homesteadmuseum Posted on October 8, 2022 Read More
Biographies “Founded Upon the Cardinal Principles of Devotion to the Union and Love for the Flag”: A Program for a Roosevelt Mass Meeting by the Los Angeles Post of the American Legion, 13 September 1919 by homesteadmuseum Posted on September 13, 2022 Read More
Biographies “I Stand Amid The Eternal Ways”: At Our Leisure with a Trio of Photographs of The Austin Family, Switzer’s Camp and A San Gabriel Mountains Panorama, August 1914 by homesteadmuseum Posted on August 30, 2022August 31, 2022 Read More
Biographies Treading the Boards in the Portrait Gallery: Actor Lucretia del Valle from the Mission Play, 1913 by homesteadmuseum Posted on August 25, 2022September 15, 2022 Read More
Commerce & Manufacturing “A Magnificent Roadstead Out in the Ocean”: The Port of Los Angeles Breakwater in Scientific American Magazine, 24 August 1912 by homesteadmuseum Posted on August 24, 2022August 25, 2022 Read More
Biographies “Financial Facts for the Protection of the Investing Public”: The August 1920 issue of American Globe/ The Pacific Trade Review, Los Angeles by homesteadmuseum Posted on August 11, 2022August 15, 2022 Read More
Biographies Disconnected and Out of Service: A Press Photo of Los Angeles Mayor Frederic T. Woodman, ca. 1916 by homesteadmuseum Posted on August 9, 2022August 10, 2022 Read More
Agriculture “Shall We Allow the Narrow Minded Race Prejudice . . . to be Paramount?”: A Sociological Study of “The Japanese in Rural Los Angeles County,” 1920 by homesteadmuseum Posted on August 7, 2022 Read More
