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Tag: Los Angeles News history 1868

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Boyle Heights at 150: Some History of Andrew A. Boyle (1818-1871), Part Two

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  • Posted on October 2, 2025December 3, 2025
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  • Agriculture

Shell Game, Part Four: Some Early History of Walnuts in Los Angeles, June 1867-December 1868

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  • Posted on September 28, 2025
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: Mining Media References to African-Americans in the 1860s

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  • Posted on February 24, 2025September 5, 2025
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

The Evolution of Christmas: Holiday Observations in Los Angeles Newspapers, 1866-1868

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 23, 2024December 23, 2024
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“A Place of Fashionable Resort and Sea Bathing”: Some Early History of Santa Monica, 1868-1871

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 7, 2024November 8, 2024
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Read All About It With E.J.C. Kewen in the Los Angeles Weekly Express, 22 August 1872, Part Two

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  • Posted on August 24, 2024
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  • Architecture & Decoration

The Rise and Fall of Adobe Abodes in Greater Los Angeles, 1851-1876, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 26, 2024
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  • Architecture & Decoration

Getting Schooled with a Photo of the Third St. Vincent’s College Building, Los Angeles, 16 August 1925

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 16, 2023August 17, 2023
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Mayor James R. Toberman to Elmore W. Squires, Los Angeles, 10 March 1874

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  • Posted on March 10, 2023
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“To Save Yourself Any Further Trouble and Me and Mine from Almost Ruin”: Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Peregrine Fitzhugh to William Workman, 16 August 1870

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 16, 2022August 17, 2022
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  • “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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