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Tag: Los Angeles Times history 1885

  • Architecture & Decoration

“A Model of Architectural Beauty and Well Calculated to Meet the Needs of the Work to be Done There”: The Construction of First African Methodist Episcopal Church, 8th Street and Towne Avenue, Los Angeles, 1903-1904

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 19, 2026
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“Served Well in Army, Field and at Bar”: Some History of Alfred Beck Chapman (1829-1915), Part Four

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  • Posted on April 16, 2026April 17, 2026
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Promoting Covina as “An Orchard Paradise in San Gabriel Valley,” 1928

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 30, 2026January 31, 2026
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

“Let Us Then Continue to Burn the Merry Hanukkah Lights”: The Celebration of Hanukkah in Los Angeles, 1885-1900, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 14, 2025
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Setteeing the Record Straight: Some History Surrounding a Donation of a Wolfskill Family Love Seat, Part Three

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  • Posted on September 8, 2025September 9, 2025
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“The Best in the Lusty Infant Metropolis That Was La Reina de Los Angeles”: An Invoice from the Hollenbeck Hotel, Los Angeles, 7 July 1900

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 7, 2025
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“There is Hardly a Limit to the Numbers That Can Find Constant Employment and Healthful Homes Here”: Read All About It in the Los Angeles Express, 23 May 1873, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 28, 2025
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Sharing History With the Monrovia Historical Society: Some Early History of Monrovia, 1885-1886, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 6, 2025
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  • Architecture & Decoration

Through the Viewfinder With Elizabeth Hatsfeldt Hollenbeck’s Hollenbeck Home for the Aged, ca. 1900, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 21, 2025March 22, 2025
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  • Oil Industry

Drilling for Black Gold: Sharing Early Olinda (Brea) Oil History With the Orange County Historical Society, 1865-1889, Part Six

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 20, 2025February 21, 2025
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