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Boyle Heights at 150: “The Awakening of Paredon Blanco Under a California Sun” by Francisca López de Bilderrain, 1928, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 11, 2025June 12, 2025
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Drilling for Black Gold with “Los Angeles as an Oil Center” in The Land of Sunshine Magazine, October 1894

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 27, 2024
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The Rise and Fall of Adobe Abodes in Greater Los Angeles, 1851-1876, Part Six

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 29, 2024June 29, 2024
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A Photograph of the La Brea Tar Pits, 27 June 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 27, 2019January 7, 2021
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Drilling for Black Gold: La Brea Oil Field, 1920s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 26, 2017December 29, 2020
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Recent Posts

  • Making a Statement With a “Report of Receipts & Disbursements May 20 to June 19, 1922,” for Walter P. Temple
  • Getting Schooled by Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Thomas W. Temple II to Walter P. Temple, 18 May 1925
  • “Somebody is Throwing Mud on Your White Spot”: The Greater Los Angeles Association Weekly Bulletin, 12 May 1924, Part Four
  • “Industrial Growth Aids Everybody”: The Greater Los Angeles Association Weekly Bulletin, 12 May 1924, Part Three
  • “Energize and Promote the Highest and Best Welfare of the Southland”: The Greater Los Angeles Association Weekly Bulletin, 12 May 1924, Part Two

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