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Tag: Boom of the Eighties

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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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Profile of a Boom Town: Los Angeles in “Harper’s Weekly,” 18 October 1890

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  • Posted on October 18, 2019January 7, 2021
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“A Flourishing Town of the Foothills”: Abram E. Pomeroy and the Founding of (La) Puente, 1886-87

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  • Posted on September 24, 2019January 7, 2021
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Read All About It in the “San Pedro Harbor Advocate,” 14 September 1889

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  • Posted on September 14, 2019December 30, 2020
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La La Landscapes: A Quintet of Photos of Elysian Park, Los Angeles, early 1900s

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  • Posted on August 25, 2019April 8, 2024
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Sharing History at the Phillips Mansion in Pomona

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  • Posted on June 29, 2019January 7, 2021
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  • Places & Communities

“This Scene of Magic Beauty”: A Photograph of Inglewood, 24 June 1908

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  • Posted on June 24, 2019January 7, 2021
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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
  • “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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