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Tag: Boom of the 1880s Los Angeles

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La La Landscapes With a Photo of St. James Park, Los Angeles, April 1900

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  • Posted on January 25, 2025January 28, 2026
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The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: African-American Woman Entrepreneur Caroline C. Burton (1826-1891)

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  • Posted on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024
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Jewish Pioneers of Orange County: A Deed from Jacob Ross to Max Reinhaus, 11 May 1878

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  • Posted on May 11, 2024May 16, 2024
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“The Gem of the Continent”: Some Early History of Redondo Beach, 1868-1890

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  • Posted on December 28, 2022December 29, 2022
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From Point A to Point B Along the Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Railroad, 1883-1888

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  • Posted on December 11, 2022
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All Over the Map From Point A to Point B: Railroad Lines in Greater Los Angeles, 1890

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  • Posted on October 18, 2022
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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

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  • Posted on October 14, 2022October 15, 2022
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Fraternal Odds and Ends with the 64th Annual Communication of the International Order of Odd Fellows, Los Angeles, 17-21 September 1888

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  • Posted on September 21, 2022September 22, 2022
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Through the Viewfinder: A Stereoscopic Photograph of the Los Angeles County Courthouse, ca. early 1880s

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  • Posted on September 14, 2022September 15, 2022
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  • 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

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  • Posted on July 17, 2022
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  • “All the Dignity of Former Days Has Departed, Leaving Tumbling Tombs and Caving Crypts to the Small Sympathy of Beast and Insect”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Five
  • “Old Calvary Has Become More Valuable to the Living Than to the Dead, And the March of Civilization is Soon to Overwhelm It”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Four
  • “The Family Legend of an Ancestor Being Lost in America”: Seeking George W. Pflugradt, 1819-1857
  • “Before This Historical Graveyard is Past All Hope of Preservation”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Three

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