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Tag: Los Angeles Aqueduct history

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Tres Hermanos Ranch Tour Postview: Some Early History of Harry Chandler (1864-1944), Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 4, 2025
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Joseph Scott (1867-1958): Devout English Emigrant to Fame and Fortune in Los Angeles, Part Two

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  • Posted on February 13, 2022February 14, 2022
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“One of the Most Extensive Projects in Water-Supply Engineering That Has Been Undertaken in This Country”: A Review of “Preliminary Work on the Los Angeles Aqueduct” from “The Engineering Record,” 8 February 1908

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  • Posted on February 8, 2022February 9, 2022
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“Trail of the Red Herring”: The Purity of Water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct in “The Los Angeles Graphic” Magazine of 9 January 1915

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  • Posted on January 8, 2022
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“The Building Up of a Great Metropolitan Industrial Center”: A Bureau of Power and Light Pamphlet, Los Angeles, 11 October 1920

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  • Posted on October 11, 2020January 4, 2021
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Portrait Gallery: Reginaldo F. del Valle, ca. 1870s

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  • Posted on April 20, 2020December 29, 2020
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“The Marvel of the Age in City Building”: Harrison Gray Otis on Los Angeles from Sunset Magazine, January 1910

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  • Posted on January 20, 2020December 28, 2020
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  • “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
  • “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
  • “The Family Legend of an Ancestor Being Lost in America”: Seeking George W. Pflugradt, 1819-1857
  • “Before This Historical Graveyard is Past All Hope of Preservation”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Three

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