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Tag: Los Angeles Star history 1856

  • Architecture & Decoration

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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 22, 2024
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  • Landscape & Gardens

“The Most Lovely Stream in the Length and Breadth of Southern California”: A Postview of “The Lost Community of MisiĂłn Vieja/Old Mission” along the RĂ­o Hondo, August 1884

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  • Posted on June 11, 2024June 12, 2024
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Portrait Gallery: A Carte de Visite Photograph of Wallace Woodworth of Los Angeles, 1860s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 19, 2024May 19, 2024
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  • Agriculture

Working the Land with “Cotton Experiments in California” from The Overland Monthly, April 1871

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 1, 2024
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  • Law & Crime

Through the Viewfinder: A Stereographic Photograph, “Part of Los Angeles from Franklin St. hill,” ca. 1875, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 7, 2024
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  • Agriculture

Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Thomas Van Deusen to William Workman, 5 October 1856

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 5, 2023
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  • Law & Crime

“All of Us Will Once Again Live in Harmony . . . Let’s Discard All Feelings of Pain From the Past”: The Trial of William W. Jenkins for the Killing of Antonio Ruiz, August 1856, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 26, 2023August 26, 2023
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  • Law & Crime

“Her General Character is Bad . . . I Would Not Give Her Credit Under Oath”: The Trial of William W. Jenkins for the Killing of Antonio Ruiz, August 1856, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 25, 2023
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  • Law & Crime

“There Needs to be Unity in This Town So That There Can Be Security”: The Trial of William W. Jenkins for the Killing of Antonio Ruiz, August 1856, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 24, 2023
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  • Law & Crime

“Will the Law be Left Almost Without Force?”: The Trial of William W. Jenkins for the Killing of Antonio Ruiz, August 1856, Part One

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  • Posted on August 23, 2023
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