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Getting the Shaft: F.P.F. Temple and the Rancho San Emigdio, 1864-1876

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 2, 2024January 3, 2024
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  • Politics & Government

On This Day: The Election for Los Angeles County Treasurer, 1 September 1875

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 1, 2017December 28, 2020
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Sharing Santa Monica History This Afternoon

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 23, 2017December 28, 2020
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  • Transportation & Infrastructure

From Point A to Point B: The Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, 1874-1877

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 24, 2017December 28, 2020
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Read All About It: The Los Angeles Herald, 10 December 1874

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 10, 2016January 4, 2021
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On This Day, 1 September 1875: Banking Panic on Election Day!

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 1, 2016March 25, 2026
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  • “Something Should Be Done to Head Off These Fanatics Who Would Keep Our City in a Turmoil All the Time”: A Postcard by Michael Rieder on the Angel City Anti-Saloon Election of Spring 1905, Part Two
  • Getting Schooled While Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Thomas W. Temple II to Walter P. Temple, Sr., 2 June 1927
  • “A Detour Sign Reading ‘Guilty’ Had Been Posted on the Highway to Wealth”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Four
  • “The Charge of Grand Larceny . . . Won’t Hold Water for a Minute”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Three
  • “The Deal Was a Huge Bunco Game”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Two

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