• Homestead Museum
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
Search

The Homestead Blog

Creating advocates for history through the stories of greater Los Angeles.

Menu
Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Economics
    • Agriculture
    • Commerce & Manufacturing
    • Labor
    • Oil Industry
    • Real Estate
    • Transportation & Infrastructure
  • Homestead Museum
    • Historic Preservation & Research
    • Staff & Events
  • House & Home
    • Food & Drink
    • Homes
    • Landscape & Gardens
  • Leisure/Entertainments
    • Film
    • Holidays & Celebrations
    • Sports
    • Music
    • Outdoors
    • Theater
  • People
    • Biographies
    • Workman & Temple Family
  • Society
    • Architecture & Decoration
    • Disasters
    • Education
    • Health & Medicine
    • Law & Crime
    • Places & Communities
    • Politics & Government
    • Race, Ethnicity, & Marginalized Groups
    • Religion & Beliefs
    • Women

Tag: Boom of the 1880s Los Angeles

  • Biographies

The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: African-American Woman Entrepreneur Caroline C. Burton (1826-1891)

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024
Read More
  • Biographies

Jewish Pioneers of Orange County: A Deed from Jacob Ross to Max Reinhaus, 11 May 1878

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 11, 2024May 16, 2024
Read More
  • Leisure/Entertainments

“The Gem of the Continent”: Some Early History of Redondo Beach, 1868-1890

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 28, 2022December 29, 2022
Read More
  • Places & Communities

From Point A to Point B Along the Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Railroad, 1883-1888

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 11, 2022
Read More
  • Places & Communities

All Over the Map From Point A to Point B: Railroad Lines in Greater Los Angeles, 1890

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 18, 2022
Read More
  • Outdoors

Yet Another Bird’s-Eye View of Los Angeles: The Westlake Park Area, 14 October 1925 and Some Early History of the Park, 1887-1890

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 14, 2022October 15, 2022
Read More
  • Holidays & Celebrations

Fraternal Odds and Ends with the 64th Annual Communication of the International Order of Odd Fellows, Los Angeles, 17-21 September 1888

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 21, 2022September 22, 2022
Read More
  • Architecture & Decoration

Through the Viewfinder: A Stereoscopic Photograph of the Los Angeles County Courthouse, ca. early 1880s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 14, 2022September 15, 2022
Read More
  • Architecture & Decoration

“Los Angeles is Fast Becoming Almost as Attractive for the Tourists in the Summer as in the Winter”: A Letter from the Hotel Lankershim, 17 July 1918

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 17, 2022
Read More
  • Agriculture

Through the Viewfinder: The Wolfskill Adobe and Orchard, Los Angeles, 1880s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 14, 2022March 14, 2022
Read More

Posts pagination

Previous Page Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Next Page

Recent Posts

  • “Something Should Be Done to Head Off These Fanatics Who Would Keep Our City in a Turmoil All the Time”: A Postcard by Michael Rieder on the Angel City Anti-Saloon Election of Spring 1905, Part Two
  • Getting Schooled While Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Thomas W. Temple II to Walter P. Temple, Sr., 2 June 1927
  • “A Detour Sign Reading ‘Guilty’ Had Been Posted on the Highway to Wealth”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Four
  • “The Charge of Grand Larceny . . . Won’t Hold Water for a Minute”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Three
  • “The Deal Was a Huge Bunco Game”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Two

Subscribe to our blog

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 510 other subscribers

Facebook

Facebook

Archives

Hours & Info

15415 E Don Julian Road
City of Industry, CA 91745
1-626-968-8492
Public Tours (Fri.-Sun., except 4th weekend)
Workman House:
1:00 & 3:00 p.m.
La Casa Nueva:
2:00 & 4:00 p.m.

Get Directions

Add Waypoint
Route Options
×

Subscribe to our Blog

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

  • Homestead Museum
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
Powered by WordPress.com.
×

Loading Comments...