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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 6 May 1874

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 6, 2026
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Drilling for Black Gold: Sharing Early Olinda (Brea) Oil History With the Orange County Historical Society, 1865-1889, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 18, 2025
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Take It To The Bank: A Short History of Hellman, Temple and Company, Bankers, 1868-1871, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 1, 2024
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  • Architecture & Decoration

Through the Viewfinder With a Photograph of the Bellevue Terrace Hotel, Los Angeles, ca. 1885

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 23, 2024January 24, 2024
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  • Architecture & Decoration

Read All About It in the Los Angeles Star, 22 September 1875

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 22, 2023September 23, 2023
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  • Transportation & Infrastructure

Ticket to the Twenties Themes: Water and Power For Los Angeles, August 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 1, 2018January 11, 2021
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Recent Posts

  • Getting Schooled While Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Thomas W. Temple II to Walter P. Temple, Sr., 2 June 1927
  • “A Detour Sign Reading ‘Guilty’ Had Been Posted on the Highway to Wealth”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Four
  • “The Charge of Grand Larceny . . . Won’t Hold Water for a Minute”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Three
  • “The Deal Was a Huge Bunco Game”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Two
  • “Accused of Being ‘Get-Rich-Quick-Wallingfords'”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part One

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