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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 Two

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  • Posted on June 21, 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 One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 18, 2024
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Sharing Some History With the Civil War Roundtable of Orange County About “Old Rosy,” General William S. Rosecrans, 1819-1898

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  • Posted on May 21, 2024
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Through the Viewfinder While Drilling for Black Gold With a Pair of Snapshots of the Olinda Oil Field, 29 March 1916

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 29, 2024March 30, 2024
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Take It To The Bank: A Temple and Workman, Bankers, Check From Daniel Freeman, “The Laird of Inglewood,” 13 August 1875

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 13, 2023
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Sharing History with Pasadena Heritage

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • 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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 16, 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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 3, 2020December 30, 2020
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Reading Between the Lines with Two Letters from Los Angeles, 1884

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  • Posted on April 25, 2020January 22, 2022
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