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Tag: 1920s Los Angeles history

  • Holidays & Celebrations

At Our Leisure: Winter Frolics in a Pair of Press Photographs from Big Pines Recreation Camp, 28 and 31 December 1927

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  • Posted on December 30, 2022
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  • Biographies

Take It on Faith: Soup, Soap and Salvation in Hell’s Half-Acre at The Midnight Mission, Los Angeles, 1917-1929

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  • Posted on December 29, 2022December 30, 2022
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  • Architecture & Decoration

An Apex for the Elite: A Press Photo of the Jonathan Club Building, December 1925

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  • Posted on December 22, 2022December 23, 2022
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  • Biographies

The Evolution of Christmas: Selling the Holiday in Los Angeles with The Elite Caterers and Confectioners, 1924

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 10, 2022December 10, 2022
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from J. Perry Worden to Thomas W. Temple II, 8 December 1927

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  • Posted on December 8, 2022December 3, 2025
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  • Oil Industry

All Over the Map While Drilling for Black Gold with a “Map of the Montebello—Whittier Oil Fields,” 1918/1921, Part One

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  • Posted on December 5, 2022December 6, 2022
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  • Places & Communities

That’s the Ticket With Games People Play for the U.S.C.—Washington State Football Game, 17 November 1928

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  • Posted on November 17, 2022
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  • Architecture & Decoration

No Place Like Home: The Shallow Brook Farm Estate of Adela Rogers St. Johns in “California Arts & Architecture,” November 1929

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 6, 2022
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

“Though Pumpkins Make Faces and Dance on Tombstones”: Hallowe’en-Related Artifacts From the Homestead’s Collection, 1911-1930

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  • Posted on October 31, 2022March 1, 2023
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  • Economics

“She Has Touched the Imagination of General Public Opinion as no Other City Has Touched the Millions”: Purple Prose Boosterism in “Why Los Angeles Will Become the World’s Greatest City,” 1923, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 28, 2022October 28, 2022
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