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Tag: Los Angeles News history 1869

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Shell Game, Part Five: Some Early History of Walnuts in Los Angeles, 1869

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 1, 2025December 3, 2025
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“His Whole Life Was Dedicated to Acts of Charity and Kindness”: Some History of Henry Wartenberg of Los Angeles, 1857-1879, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 5, 2025
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“The Outstanding Jewish Leader in the City”: Some History of Henry Wartenberg of Los Angeles, 1857-1879, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 4, 2025December 3, 2025
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“This Silent But Eloquent Expression of the Feeling That Should Exist in Everyone’s Hearts”: Decoration (Memorial) Day in Los Angeles, 1870-1875

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 26, 2025May 25, 2026
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Read All About It: A Grape Controversy With the Tarbox Brandy Distillery, Los Angeles, 1874-1878, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 2, 2025
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The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: Mining Media References to African-Americans in the 1860s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 24, 2025September 5, 2025
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“There is a Beauty Perennial Through the Droughts”: A Travelogue of Greater Los Angeles by “Socrates Hyacinth” in The Overland Monthly, January 1869, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 5, 2025
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Hatter Daniel Desmond, Los Angeles, 10 December 1876

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 10, 2024December 11, 2024
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At Our Leisure With “Grizzly Bear Hunting in Southern California” from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 21 August 1858, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 21, 2024
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: Celebrating, Commemorating and Debating the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, 1869-1876, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 22, 2024
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