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Tag: Los Angeles 1880s

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The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: R.C.O. Benjamin, California’s First African-American Practicing Attorney, Part Six

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 21, 2025August 21, 2025
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“There is Hardly a Limit to the Numbers That Can Find Constant Employment and Healthful Homes Here”: Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 23 May 1873, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 28, 2025
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The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: African-American Woman Entrepreneur Caroline C. Burton (1826-1891)

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 19, 2024June 19, 2024
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Reading Between the Lines with Two Letters from Los Angeles, 1884

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 25, 2020January 22, 2022
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“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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Reading Between the Lines: Remarkable California Stories from a Letter from Los Angeles, 19 November 1885

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  • Posted on November 19, 2018January 15, 2021
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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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