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Tag: Los Angeles history 1880s

  • Biographies

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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 20, 2025
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  • Architecture & Decoration

“The Best in the Lusty Infant Metropolis That Was La Reina de Los Angeles”: An Invoice from the Hollenbeck Hotel, Los Angeles, 7 July 1900

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 7, 2025
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  • Disasters

Here Comes The Flood: Some History of Flooding in the Arroyo Seco, 1861-1914, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 28, 2025
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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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  • Biographies

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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 17, 2025
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Recent Posts

  • Read All About It in the Los Angeles Star, 4 June 1874
  • “Something Should Be Done to Head Off These Fanatics Who Would Keep Our City in a Turmoil All the Time”: A Postcard by Michael Rieder on the Angel City Anti-Saloon Election of Spring 1905, Part Two
  • 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

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