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Tag: Hollywood California history

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“One Can Almost Imagine One’s Self in the Tropics”: Jacob Miller and his Nichols Canyon Ranch, Hollywood, 1880-1920

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 29, 2025
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Set in Stone: Jacob Miller and the Pioneer Marble Works, Los Angeles, 1870-1880

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  • Posted on November 26, 2025November 27, 2025
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“With Women’s Sphere of Influence and Activity Constantly Broadening”: Greater Los Angeles Representatives in “Women of the West,” 1928, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 30, 2024March 30, 2024
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That’s a (W)rap with A Press Photo of Peter Howard, the Hermit of Hollywood, January 1926

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 17, 2024January 18, 2024
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Through the Viewfinder With an Aerial Photograph of West Hollywood, 30 October 1923

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 30, 2023
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Take It On Faith: A Press Photo of the Krotona Institute of Theosophy, Beachwood Canyon, Hollywood, 1913

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  • Posted on June 6, 2022June 7, 2022
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Stars and Bars: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood Financier Gilbert H. Beesemyer, 1910-1930

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 16, 2020December 29, 2020
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Through the Viewfinder: Vista Del Mar, the Albert G. Bartlett Estate, Hollywood, 1908

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 10, 2019January 6, 2021
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  • “One of the Most Brutal Murders Ever Committed Here”: An Orange County Sheriff’s Department Wanted Poster for Albert Gaines, 24 July 1926, Part Two
  • “One of the Most Brutal Murders Ever Committed Here”: An Orange County Sheriff’s Department Wanted Poster for Albert Gaines, 24 July 1926, Part One
  • From Point A to Point B With a Letter from Western Auto Supply Company, Los Angeles, 23 July 1927, Part One
  • “It Is Whether You Shall Be Governed By Yourself Or Be Misgoverned by Wowsers, Bounders and Numskulls”: The Debate About Prohibition in the Presidential Campaign, July 1928
  • That’s a Wrap While Treading the Boards With a Program from the Hillstreet Theatre, Los Angeles, the Week of 16 July 1923

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