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At Our Leisure: Sycamore Grove in the Arroyo Seco, 1874-1876

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  • Posted on February 21, 2020December 29, 2020
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“A Respectful Deference”: President Rutherford B. Hayes Visits Los Angeles, 24 October 1880

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  • Posted on February 7, 2020December 29, 2020
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Through the Viewfinder: New High Street Looking South Toward Temple Street, Los Angeles, ca. 1873

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  • Posted on January 7, 2020October 21, 2021
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Childs Play: Real Estate Speculation During Los Angeles’ First Boom, 1874-1875

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  • Posted on October 16, 2019January 7, 2021
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Read All About It in The “Los Angeles Express,” 17 June 1874

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  • Posted on June 17, 2019December 30, 2020
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Alcatraz Island and the Workman and Temple Families, Part Four

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  • Posted on March 11, 2019December 29, 2020
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Alcatraz Island and the Workman and Temple Families, Part Three

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  • Posted on March 10, 2019December 29, 2020
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Alcatraz Island and the Workman and Temple Families, Part Two

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  • Posted on March 8, 2019December 29, 2020
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Through the Viewfinder: A Stereoscopic Photograph of Commercial Street, Los Angeles, 1872

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  • Posted on November 27, 2018January 15, 2021
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Election Day: The 1863 Campaign for California Governor

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  • Posted on November 6, 2018January 15, 2021
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Here's a photo of our demonstration vineyard at the museum! It's located just outside the decorated bedroom in our previous photo.
Check out this bedroom in the Workman House! Photo courtesy of @dlnguyenphoto.
FEMALE JUSTICE: Maud Kafitz
Come join us for our Open Air Art Day today!!! We've already had several artistic masterpieces created today. We'll be here until 4.
Aerial view of the grounds: Walter P. Temple, Jr., whose family owned the Homestead in the 1920s, later became an enthusiastic amateur painter and this aerial view of the ranch, made from the photograph below, shows what he once said in an oral history that it was something of a mini-Disneyland for a teenager! (he also has this sentence paired with the aerial view photo.
Painting by Wally Temple

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