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Tag: Downey Block Los Angeles history

  • Commerce & Manufacturing

In the Abstract: Jonathan Temple and the Future International Savings and Exchange Bank Property, Los Angeles, 1839-1866

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 22, 2022June 23, 2022
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Games People Play: The Los Angeles Athletic Club’s Weekly Magazine, “Mercury,” 23 May 1918.

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 23, 2022May 24, 2022
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Through the Viewfinder: A Traffic Jam Outside the Downey Block, Los Angeles, 1872

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 16, 2022May 23, 2026
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  • Architecture & Decoration

Through the Viewfinder: A Photograph Positioning the Past and Present at the Plaza, Los Angeles, ca. 1872

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 12, 2021
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  • Places & Communities

Through the Viewfinder: “North Main St. From Temple Block,” Los Angeles, ca. 1885

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 20, 2020January 4, 2021
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Recent Posts

  • “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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