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Drilling for Black Gold: Sharing Early Olinda (Brea) Oil History With the Orange County Historical Society, 1865-1889, Part Six

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  • Posted on February 20, 2025February 21, 2025
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  • Agriculture

Tres Hermanos Ranch Tour Postview: The Puente Oil Company and its Chino Connection, 1881-1896

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  • Posted on February 1, 2025September 27, 2025
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Games People Play With a Photo of the Field House, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 12 April 1922

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  • Posted on April 12, 2024
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La La Landscapes: The Rancho Los Alisos of Judge Charles Silent, Glendora

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 13, 2019December 30, 2020
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Portrait Gallery: “Mesmer-izing” History Through a Pair of Cabinet Photos of Joseph and Rose Mesmer, ca. 1879

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  • Posted on January 11, 2018January 11, 2021
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  • Treading the Boards With a Die-Cut Herald for Jane Cowl and “The Road to Rome,” Belasco Theatre, Los Angeles, August 1928
  • “Loyally, Honestly, Courageously and Industriously”: Mary Julia Workman and the Los Angeles Civil Service Commission, 1925-1929
  • La La Landscapes: Some History of Waichi “Fred” Yoshimura’s Mission Nursery, San Gabriel
  • “The Mere Meaningless Calling of Names Can Do Nothing But Further Racial Prejudice”: E. Manchester Boddy’s “Japanese in America,” 1921
  • “An Important Mile Stone in the History of the Model Settlement”: A Certificate of Ownership of Stock in the Ontario Land Company, 7 August 1883

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