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“It Is a Young City, Crude, Wildly Ambitious, Growing”: Louis Adamic’s “The Truth About Los Angeles,” Little Blue Book No. 647, 1927, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 17, 2025November 19, 2025
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Weekly Herald, 3 July 1875, Part Two

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  • Posted on July 5, 2025
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“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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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Star, 13 June 1874

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  • Posted on June 13, 2025
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“There is Hardly a Limit to the Numbers That Can Find Constant Employment and Healthful Homes Here”: Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 23 May 1873, Part Four

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  • Posted on May 28, 2025
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“The Same Progressive and Constructive Service Which Marked the Administration of My Father”: The Primary Candidacy of Boyle Workman for Mayor of Los Angeles, 3 May 1921, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 3, 2025
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“My Boyle Heights Property Is Just What You Want”: The Many and Varied Activities of William H. Workman in 1903, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 27, 2025
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“Why, the Drain on the Treasury is Something Fierce”: A Receipt from the Office of Los Angeles City Treasurer William H. Workman, 22 April 1903, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 22, 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

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  • Posted on April 3, 2025
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Boyle Heights at 150 Postview: “The Great Merit of Boyle Heights as a Residence District,” Los Angeles Herald, 3 June 1906, Part Two

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  • Posted on April 2, 2025
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