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Tag: Los Angeles history 1890s

  • Biographies

Through the Viewfinder With a Photo of Los Angeles Fire Department Engine Company No. 1, ca. 1906, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 12, 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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  • Holidays & Celebrations

“The American Flag Stands For More Today . . . Than at Any Other Time in the History of This People”: Flag Day in Los Angeles, 1894-1898

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 14, 2025June 14, 2025
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  • Biographies

“An Interesting Biography That Would Have Some Hypnotic Attributes”: Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 23 May 1873, Part Six

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 30, 2025
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  • Miscellaneous

Profile of a Boom Town: Los Angeles in “Harper’s Weekly,” 18 October 1890

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 18, 2019January 7, 2021
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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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