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Tag: Los Angeles Star history 1857

  • Agriculture

Shell Game: Some Early History of Walnuts in Los Angeles, 1852-1860

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 22, 2025September 23, 2025
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  • Agriculture

Run of the Mill: A Receipt to F.P.F. Temple from Rowland’s Mill, Puente, 21 March 1853, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 17, 2025
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

The Celebration of Mexican Independence Day in Los Angeles, 1856-1864

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 16, 2025September 16, 2025
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

“These Priests . . . by the Help of the Aborigines, Made the Wilderness ‘Blossom Like the Rose'”: California Indians in Ballou’s Pictorial, 2 May 1857

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 2, 2025
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  • Economics

Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from John H. Bancroft to F.P.F. Temple, 2 March 1858

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 1, 2025March 1, 2025
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  • Biographies

The Evolution of Christmas: Holiday Observations in Los Angeles Newspapers, 1857-1860

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 9, 2024
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  • Agriculture

Compadres: A Loan Document Between Juan Matias Sánchez and William Workman, 26 September 1850

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 26, 2024September 29, 2024
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  • Outdoors

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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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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  • Biographies

All The Right Notes/One For The Books: A Cancelled Note from Samuel Hellman, Los Angeles, 4 May 1868

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 4, 2024
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Recent Posts

  • Double Checking the History of Frederick Lambourn (1837-1914), Tutor and Ranch Foreman for the Workman Family, Part One
  • Take It To The Bank Through the Viewfinder: A Press Photo of the Site of the Federal Reserve Bank Building, Los Angeles, early April 1929
  • Temples of Trade Through the Viewfinder: A Photo of the Charles C. Chapman (Los Angeles Investment Company) Building, Broadway and 8th, Los Angeles, ca. 1924, Part Five
  • Temples of Trade Through the Viewfinder: A Photo of the Charles C. Chapman (Los Angeles Investment Company) Building, Broadway and 8th, Los Angeles, ca. 1924, Part Four
  • Temples of Trade Through the Viewfinder: A Photo of the Charles C. Chapman (Los Angeles Investment Company) Building, Broadway and 8th, Los Angeles, ca. 1924, Part Three

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