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Tag: Los Angeles Star history 1872

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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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  • Economics

“All That Goes to Make Up the Sum Total of Human Happiness”: Selling Greater Los Angeles in a Letter and Literature from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 24 July 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 24, 2022
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

From Point A to Point B with a Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad Company Receipt, 2 April 1873

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 2, 2022
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Through the Viewfinder: A Traffic Jam Outside the Downey Block, Los Angeles, 1872

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 16, 2022May 23, 2026
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  • Law & Crime

“A Very Salutary Effect in Restraining the Lawless Class”: Trials Following the Chinese Massacre of 24 October 1871

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  • Posted on October 27, 2021
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