Biographies “The Historical Pageant is a Mirror Held Up to an Actual or Imaginary Past”: The Mission Play in “The West Coast Magazine,” March 1912 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 11, 2026 Read More
Architecture & Decoration Through the Viewfinder With the “Ramona’s Home” Adobe, San Gabriel, ca. 1926 by homesteadmuseum Posted on June 22, 2025 Read More
Architecture & Decoration “This Stately Temple, in its Incomparable Beauty, is Their Monument . . . to California and its Hallowed Traditions”: A Program for the New Mission Playhouse, San Gabriel, 5 March 1927 by homesteadmuseum Posted on March 9, 2025March 9, 2025 Read More
Race, Ethnicity, & Marginalized Groups “A Marvelously Vivid Picture of California Under Spanish Rule”: Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from The Mission Play Dancer Juanita Vigare to Laura González Temple, 30 October 1916 by homesteadmuseum Posted on October 29, 2024 Read More
Biographies “One of the Most Famous Private Pleasure Places in Southern California”: The Homestead and the Elks Fraternal Order, 1920-1921 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 11, 2023February 12, 2023 Read More
Places & Communities “Spirit of the Savage Sensing the Approach of his White Conquerors”: Treading the Boards with a Program for the Mission Play, San Gabriel, 1913 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 2, 2023February 3, 2023 Read More
Biographies Treading the Boards While in the Portrait Gallery: A Photo of Chickasaw Nation Actor William F. Harrison in the Mission Play, San Gabriel, ca. 1925 by homesteadmuseum Posted on September 11, 2022September 15, 2022 Read More
Homes La Casa Nueva’s Centennial: The Temple Family in the News in 1922 by homesteadmuseum Posted on July 30, 2022July 30, 2022 Read More
Biographies “Romance Never Dies in Old San Gabriel”: A New Donation of Artifacts Related to the Mission Play, 1910s-1930s by homesteadmuseum Posted on May 19, 2022 Read More
Places & Communities “When California Was the Happiest Land in All the World”: A Pamphlet for “The Mission Play,” San Gabriel, 1923 by homesteadmuseum Posted on February 3, 2022 Read More
