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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

  • “It Is Whether You Shall Be Governed By Yourself Or Be Misgoverned by Wowsers, Bounders and Numskulls”: The Debate About Prohibition in the Presidential Campaign, July 1928
  • That’s a Wrap While Treading the Boards With a Program from the Hillstreet Theatre, Los Angeles, the Week of 16 July 1923
  • Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 16 July 1874
  • “It Was Just a Sedate Show Which Failed to Interest a Public Too Sophisticated to Care One Way or the Other”: Los Angeles Celebrates the American Sesquicentennial, 1926, Part Eight
  • “There Was Not a Single Man, Woman or Child Present Who Was Not Proud of Being an American Living in These Glorious United States”: Los Angeles Celebrates the American Sesquicentennial, 1926, Part Seven

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