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Tag: Long Beach California history

  • Commerce & Manufacturing

The Evolution of Christmas: Early Uses of Electric Holiday Lights in Greater Los Angeles, 1908-1912

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 6, 2025
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  • Biographies

“The Most American City in America Any Way One Looks At It”: Louis Adamic’s “The Truth About Los Angeles,” Little Blue Book No. 647, 1927, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 19, 2025
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Games People Play: Sharing Some History of Los Serranos Country Club with the Chino Hills Historical Society, 1924-1930

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 10, 2025
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  • Biographies

Take It On Faith With a Flyer for The Annual Missionary Convention of Bethel Temple, Los Angeles, January 1925

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 24, 2024
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“A Strictly Modern Medical and Surgical Health Resort”: A Postcard from the Long Beach Sanitarium, ca. 1909

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 25, 2023
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Charles Mial Dustin to Walter P. Temple, 26 August 1919

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 30, 2023August 31, 2023
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

“A Lavish and Expansive Oasis”: The Opening of the Pacific Southwest Exposition at Long Beach, 27 July 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 28, 2020December 30, 2020
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  • Music

Take It On Faith While Striking a Chord: An Invitation to The Home Concert of the The Men’s Glee Club of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 1 June 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 1, 2020February 26, 2021
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  • Politics & Government

“Appalled by the Dangers of Intemperance”: Report of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of Southern California, 38th Annual Convention, 18-21 May 1920

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 24, 2020December 29, 2020
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  • Agriculture

“The Paris of the North American Continent”: Boosting the Boom in “The Southern California Bulletin,” January 1888

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 3, 2020December 28, 2020
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  • “It Is Whether You Shall Be Governed By Yourself Or Be Misgoverned by Wowsers, Bounders and Numskulls”: The Debate About Prohibition in the Presidential Campaign, July 1928
  • That’s a Wrap While Treading the Boards With a Program from the Hillstreet Theatre, Los Angeles, the Week of 16 July 1923
  • Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 16 July 1874
  • “It Was Just a Sedate Show Which Failed to Interest a Public Too Sophisticated to Care One Way or the Other”: Los Angeles Celebrates the American Sesquicentennial, 1926, Part Eight
  • “There Was Not a Single Man, Woman or Child Present Who Was Not Proud of Being an American Living in These Glorious United States”: Los Angeles Celebrates the American Sesquicentennial, 1926, Part Seven

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