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Tag: Boom of the 1880s Los Angeles history

  • Architecture & Decoration

Getting Schooled With Photos from Occidental College, Los Angeles, February 1900

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 16, 2023
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  • Architecture & Decoration

Through the Viewfinder: A Trio of Views of the Los Angeles County Courthouse, 1890s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 17, 2022October 18, 2022
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  • Economics

“Undoubtedly Destined to be One of the Important Cities of the Continent, Taking Rank in Time With the Great Cities of the World”: The Californian Illustrated Magazine’s Article on the “New Los Angeles,” Part Two, October 1892

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 6, 2022
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  • Places & Communities

“The Excitement Was Raised to the Pitch of Madness”: The Californian Illustrated Magazine’s Article on the “New Los Angeles,” Part One, October 1892

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 5, 2022
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  • Agriculture

Take It to the Bank: A Temple and Workman Bank Check for Joseph Walter Drown, 16 September 1872, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 17, 2022
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  • Biographies

“A Well-Known Character About Town”: Robert Turnbull, the Namesake of Turnbull Canyon, Puente Hills

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 23, 2022
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Recent Posts

  • From Point A to Point B: Mines Field Chosen as the Future Los Angeles International Airport, 1928, Part One
  • “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
  • “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 Three
  • “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
  • Ascending Spanish Steps With a Postcard of the Gainsborough Heath Sales Office, San Marino, postmarked 11 June 1929, Part Four

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