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Tag: Lewis Wolfskill

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“Served Well in Army, Field and at Bar”: Some History of Alfred Beck Chapman (1829-1915), Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 12, 2026April 13, 2026
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Reading Between the Lines With Grape Expectations in a Letter from Henry J. Yarrow to Joseph F. Vorbe, Los Angeles, 5 March 1870

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 5, 2026
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Setteeing the Scene: Some History Surrounding a Donation of a Wolfskill Family Love Seat, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 6, 2025
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La La Landscapes: Baldwin’s Ranch, ca. 1900s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 14, 2018April 8, 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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  • Landscape & Gardens

La La Landscapes: Rancho Santa Anita, late 1870s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 21, 2017December 29, 2020
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Recent Posts

  • “Like a Garden Spot in the Vast Plain”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part Three
  • “Where the Visitor is Made to Feel Perfectly at Home”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part Two
  • “In The Old But Noted City, With Its Unsurpassed Almost Tropical Climate”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part One
  • “All the Dignity of Former Days Has Departed, Leaving Tumbling Tombs and Caving Crypts to the Small Sympathy of Beast and Insect”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Five
  • “Old Calvary Has Become More Valuable to the Living Than to the Dead, And the March of Civilization is Soon to Overwhelm It”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Four

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