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Tag: Flood control Los Angeles County history

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“The Keynote of All Flood Control Measures is Conservation”: Reports of the Board of Engineers on Flood Control to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, July 1915, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 30, 2021
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“Restraining the Impetuous Run-Off of Flood Flows”: Reports of the Board of Engineers on Flood Control to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, July 1915, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 29, 2021July 30, 2021
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“Looking to the West to See How It Should Be Done”: The “Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on City Planning,” Los Angeles, 7-10 April 1924, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 12, 2021
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“Water Has A Combined Power for Good or Evil”: The Report of J.W. Reagan, Los Angeles County Flood Control District, 2 January 1917

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  • Posted on January 2, 2021
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Check out these amazing gouache paintings done by the talented Megan R.! We are always delighted when someone creates art of our site!!!
Transformation in the Teens: The Workman and Temple Families in 1910s Los Angeles
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An ad for a horse race at the Santa Anita Park. Taken from a Mason House program from 1908.
We're always excited when our collection is used in someone's research! Check out this photo from our collection of Los Angeles Mayor Damien Marchessault, which was used by Annick Foucrier, a historian from Paris, in an article on the French in California.

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