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Drilling for Black Gold: Sharing Early Olinda (Brea) Oil History With the Orange County Historical Society, 1865-1889, Part Seven

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 22, 2025
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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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Food for Thought With a Thanksgiving Dinner Program from Del Monte Tavern, 30 November 1905, Part One

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  • Posted on November 27, 2024
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“Its Cheerful Outlook, its Semi-Tropical Surroundings and its Profusion of Home Comforts Have Made it Popular”: Some Further History of Sierra Madre Villa, 1887-1891

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  • Posted on November 20, 2024November 21, 2024
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Read All About It in the San Pedro Harbor Advocate, 5 October 1889

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  • Posted on October 5, 2024
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Frank Herbert Barclay of Los Angeles to Benjamin F. Jones, Chair of the Republican National Committee, 19 August 1884

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  • Posted on August 19, 2024August 20, 2024
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Treading the Boards With a Program from the Burbank Theatre, Los Angeles, the Week of 16 August 1914, Part One

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  • Posted on August 16, 2024August 17, 2024
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“The Great Things That Can be Achieved Under the Favoring Sun and Soil of Semi-Tropical California”: Some History of Leonard J. Rose, 1827-1899, Part Nine

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  • Posted on July 25, 2024
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“An Empire is Growing Up, With Possibilities So Glittering That They Are Dazzling”: Some History of Leonard J. Rose, 1827-1899, Part Eight

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  • Posted on July 24, 2024
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Reading Between the Lines From Point A to Point B With a Letter to Richard Smith of New York City From William B. King, California Southern Railroad Company, Los Angeles, 16 June 1887, Part Four

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  • Posted on June 25, 2024
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  • “The Family Legend of an Ancestor Being Lost in America”: Seeking George W. Pflugradt, 1819-1857
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  • “Let Us At Least Draw the Line at Neglect and Desecration of the Cemeteries”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Two

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