Commerce & Manufacturing The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: Mining Media References to African-Americans in the 1850s by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 23, 2025 Read More
Biographies Through the Viewfinder: A Stereographic Photograph, “Part of Los Angeles from Franklin St. hill,” ca. 1875, Part Two by homesteadmuseum Posted on January 6, 2024 Read More
Biographies “The Picture of Los Angeles That He Paints Closely Approximates Truth”: Horace Bell and the “Black Angels” of 1850s Los Angeles in Touring Topics Magazine, September 1927, Part Two by homesteadmuseum Posted on September 12, 2023 Read More
Law & Crime “All of Us Will Once Again Live in Harmony . . . Let’s Discard All Feelings of Pain From the Past”: The Trial of William W. Jenkins for the Killing of Antonio Ruiz, August 1856, Part Four by homesteadmuseum Posted on August 26, 2023August 26, 2023 Read More
Law & Crime “There Needs to be Unity in This Town So That There Can Be Security”: The Trial of William W. Jenkins for the Killing of Antonio Ruiz, August 1856, Part Two by homesteadmuseum Posted on August 24, 2023 Read More
Law & Crime “We Want Peace to be Restored; That Justice Fulfills its Obligations”: The Killing of Antonio Ruiz by Deputy Constable William W. Jenkins, Los Angeles, 19 July 1856, Part Four by homesteadmuseum Posted on July 25, 2023 Read More
Law & Crime “I Hope That All Good Citizens Will Consider it Their Duty to Calm Public Opinion”: The Killing of Antonio Ruiz by Deputy Constable William W. Jenkins, Los Angeles, 19 July 1856, Part Two by homesteadmuseum Posted on July 23, 2023 Read More
Law & Crime “Shall Powerful Friends and Money, Color and Race and Legal Nothingisms Continue to Neutralize Our Judiciary?”: The Legal and Extralegal Executions of Felipe Alvitre and David Brown, 12 January 1855, Part One by homesteadmuseum Posted on January 11, 2023January 12, 2023 Read More
