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Striking a Chord: A Photograph of Soprano Constance Balfour, April 1928

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  • Posted on April 3, 2021April 4, 2021
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Treading the Boards with “Strange Interlude” at Erlanger’s Biltmore Theatre, Los Angeles, March 1929

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  • Posted on March 26, 2021
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“A Real Terpsichorean Conflagration”: A Souvenir Program for the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Firemen’s Fifth Annual Ball, 25 March 1922

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  • Posted on March 25, 2021
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“To Exalt the Standard of Womanhood”: A Photo of the Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home for Working Women, Los Angeles, 1910s

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  • Posted on March 22, 2021
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“The Only Ones I Envy Are Those That Are Dead”: A Press Photo of William Mulholland at the St. Francis Dam Disaster Coroner’s Inquest, 21 March 1928

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  • Posted on March 21, 2021
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Take It On Faith with the Spiritual Anniversaries of George W. Trotter of the Union Rescue Mission, Los Angeles, March 1910-1911

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  • Posted on March 19, 2021
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Treading the Boards with Elsie Ferguson in “The Wheel of Life,” Mason Opera House, Los Angeles, March 1923

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  • Posted on March 12, 2021
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The Commercialized Criminalization of a “Chinese Opium Fiend” From a Postcard Postmarked 8 March 1906

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  • Posted on March 9, 2021March 10, 2021
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A Solicitor and Solon Sisters’ Summit: A Press Photograph of Representative Florence P. Kahn and Attorney Clara Shortridge Foltz, March 1928

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  • Posted on March 8, 2021
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“One of the Pitiful Examples of the Helplessness of the Old Californians”: A Los Angeles Times Article on the Interment of Don Pío Pico and Doña María Ygnacia Alvarado at the Walter P. Temple Memorial Mausoleum, 6 March 1921

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  • Posted on March 6, 2021March 6, 2021
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