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Tag: Boom of the 1880s

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Sharing History with Pasadena Heritage

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  • Posted on September 12, 2020January 4, 2021
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Sharing History in Glendora about Rancho Los Alisos and Charles Silent

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  • Posted on August 25, 2020December 30, 2020
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From Point A to Point B: The Completion of the Los Angeles Cable Railway to Boyle Heights, August 1889

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  • Posted on August 16, 2020December 30, 2020
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Hog Wild: The Opening of the Cudahy Packing Company Plant, Los Angeles, 1891-1893

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  • Posted on July 29, 2020December 30, 2020
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At Our Leisure From Point A to Point B: “A Southern California Mountain Railroad” from “The Californian” Magazine, July 1892

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  • Posted on July 3, 2020December 30, 2020
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Working the Land: A Letter from the Duarte-Monrovia Fruit Exchange to DeWitt Clinton Sawyier, 23 March 1898

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  • Posted on March 23, 2020December 29, 2020
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A Crowning Achievement? The Los Angeles Improvement Company and Crown Hill, 1885-1890

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  • Posted on February 17, 2020December 29, 2020
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Sharing History with the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council’s Historic Preservation Workshop

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  • Posted on January 12, 2020December 28, 2020
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“The Paris of the North American Continent”: Boosting the Boom in “The Southern California Bulletin,” January 1888

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  • Posted on January 3, 2020December 28, 2020
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“Climate and Health Resorts of California” in The Journal of the American Medical Association, 29 October 1887

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  • Posted on October 29, 2019December 30, 2020
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Recent Posts

  • “Valuable Services of an Executive and Business Nature”: An Agreement Regarding the Temple Estate Company, 2 June 1924
  • “To Promote in the Study of the Development of Civilization in England and America”: The Third Annual Report of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1929-1930, Part Two
  • “To Promote in the Study of the Development of Civilization in England and America”: The Third Annual Report of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1929-1930, Part One
  • No Place Like Home: The Best Laid Plans of Architect Anton W. Riewe for Antonio Merlo’s Proposed House, Avocado Heights, ca. 1920s
  • At Our Leisure with Photos from Switzer’s Camp, San Gabriel Mountains, 30 May 1921

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Being in CA, we often think that slavery didn’t happen here, but after an enlightening and thought-provoking afternoon with Dr. Kevin Waite @kevinwaite yesterday discussing his book West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire all in attendance learned the true story. His book tackles the often untold history of how and why Southern slaveholders infiltrated the American West in the years leading up to the Civil War and how they kept a stranglehold there for decades to come.

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