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Tag: Los Angeles 1860s

  • Agriculture

Shell Game, Too: Some Early History of Walnuts in Los Angeles, 1862-1866

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 25, 2025
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

California Admission Day in Los Angeles Newspapers, 1854-1869

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 9, 2025
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“The Outstanding Jewish Leader in the City”: Some History of Henry Wartenberg of Los Angeles, 1857-1879, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 4, 2025December 3, 2025
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“There is a Beauty Perennial Through the Droughts”: A Travelogue of Greater Los Angeles by “Socrates Hyacinth” in The Overland Monthly, January 1869, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 5, 2025
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  • Places & Communities

All Over the Map: The Southwestern United States in 1866

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 29, 2018January 11, 2021
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Recent Posts

  • “The Manner of Her Paying is a Thing to Make Women Pause”: The Death of Theresa Weinstein Moers by Boxer Kid McCoy, August 1924, Part Three
  • “She Is Dead Now, But I Still Love Her and I Don’t Care What Becomes of Me”: The Death of Theresa Weinstein Moers by Boxer Kid McCoy, August 1924, Part Two
  • “It Ain’t Right, Judge, When a Woman Slaps You and the Dogs Keep the House in an Uproar”: The Death of Theresa Weinstein Moers by Boxer Kid McCoy, August 1924, Part One
  • Drilling for Black Gold With the Union Oil Company of California Bulletin, August 1922
  • No Place Like Home With a Photo of La Casa Nueva’s Courtyard Under Construction, 16 August 1924

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