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Tag: Los Angeles history 1900s

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“Mr. Workman Has Already Indicated His Willingness to Do Anything in Reason”: A Receipt from the Office of Los Angeles City Treasurer William H. Workman, 22 April 1903, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 23, 2025April 24, 2025
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Boyle Heights at 150 Postview: “Bringing Boyle Heights to the Front as a Residence District,” Los Angeles Herald, 3 June 1906, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 3, 2025
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“It Needed the Blough Case . . . To Shock the Town Into a Sense of Its Responsibilities”: The Death of Minnie Blough and Liquor License Reform in Los Angeles Restaurants, February 1906, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 9, 2025February 9, 2025
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“It is Enough to Say That Los Angeles Does Nothing by Halves”: Bertha H. Smith’s “The Making of Los Angeles” in Sunset Magazine, July 1907, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 3, 2023July 4, 2023
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Reading Between the Lines in Letters from Jeanette Friend de Temple to Laura González and Walter P. Temple, 1906-1908

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  • Posted on May 12, 2022
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