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Treading the Boards with “Ken-Geki” at the Music Box Theatre, Los Angeles, 18 June 1928

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  • Posted on June 18, 2019December 30, 2020
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Striking a Chord: A Gloria Swanson Phonograph Record, 3 August 1929

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  • Posted on August 3, 2018January 8, 2021
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That’s a Wrap: “Programme of Grand Photoplay Festival,” Los Angeles, 10-12 July 1915

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  • Posted on July 10, 2018January 8, 2021
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That’s a Wrap: The Opening of the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles, 18 May 1926

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  • Posted on May 18, 2017December 28, 2020
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That’s a Wrap: The Belgian Royal Family Visits the Ince Studios, Culver City, 1919

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  • Posted on December 26, 2016January 4, 2021
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Games People Play: Auto Racing at the Los Angeles Speedway, 1921

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  • Posted on December 17, 2016January 4, 2021
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Artifact Spotlight: Mercury Airlines—A Los Angeles Aviation Pioneer

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  • Posted on April 14, 2016December 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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Happy #nationaltrailsday ! Here's a photo from 1906 featuring a man atop a mule while traveling Mt. Wilson. Do you have a local trail you love to walk?
Check out these then and now photos of our Mission Walkway. The top picture is from 1925 and features Thomas Temple!
Congratulations to those graduating this term!
We're joining the Archive Babies hashtag today with a couple of photos from our collection!
Sunday, May 7, from 12-4 p.m.
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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