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Tag: Frances Widney Workman

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“The Pageant of Liberty Will Serve as a Test of Los Angeles’ True Patriotic Spirit”: Los Angeles Celebrates the American Sesquicentennial, 1926, Part Six

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 10, 2026
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

“The Most Pretentious Patriotic Program Ever Offered in Los Angeles—Or For That Matter in the Entire West”: Los Angeles Celebrates the American Sesquicentennial, 1926, Part Five

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 9, 2026
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  • Architecture & Decoration

Lifting Through Gifting: A Donation of Workman Family Photos and Scrapbooks, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 2, 2026January 6, 2026
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“Mr. Workman Has Unfurled the Banner of Personal Liberty and Aligned Himself Against the Forces of Parochial Bigotry”: The Primary Candidacy of Boyle Workman for Mayor of Los Angeles, 3 May 1921, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 4, 2025
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  • Health & Medicine

“The Children’s Hospital is an Important Need in any City”: Some Early History of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, 1900-1914, Part Six

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 2, 2024May 3, 2024
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A “Babylonian Revelry” and a “Staggering Bacchanale” at the Mardi Gras des Artistes at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 4 March 1924

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 4, 2021
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Striking a Chord: A Woman’s Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles Program, 9 February 1927

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 9, 2019December 29, 2020
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

“Pageant of Liberty,” Los Angeles Coliseum, July 1926

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 4, 2017May 13, 2026
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Recent Posts

  • “Like a Garden Spot in the Vast Plain”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part Three
  • “Where the Visitor is Made to Feel Perfectly at Home”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part Two
  • “In The Old But Noted City, With Its Unsurpassed Almost Tropical Climate”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part One
  • “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

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