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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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 2, 2021
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  • “The Greatest Attraction in the Southwest This Year”: The Opening of the American Historical Review and Motion Picture Industrial Exposition, Los Angeles, 2 July 1923
  • “The Climatic Capital of the New World”: A Pamphlet on “Los Angeles: The Metropolis of the Southwest,” 1 July 1926
  • At Our Leisure: The Early History of Switzer’s Camp in the Arroyo Seco, San Gabriel Mountains, 1885
  • One For the Books: A Press Photo of Librarians at the New Los Angeles Central Library, 28 June 1926
  • “Our Gains and Set-Backs in the U.S.A.”: The Southern California Branch of the ACLU’s “The Open Forum,” 28 June 1930

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A photograph, "The Scene at the Bathing Pool, Angeles National Forest," ca. 1910s.
Edgar and Agnes Temple having fun at the beach!
Ever wonder what's inside our "tepee?" Here's a look!
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The Long Beach Purity Raids of 1914
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