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Tag: Los Angeles Times history 1885

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“A Spot of Glorious Beauty, Enriched With Fig and Orange and Vine and All the Attractions of This Winterless Land”: Some Further History of Sierra Madre Villa, 1884-1886

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 19, 2024
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Frank Herbert Barclay of Los Angeles to Benjamin F. Jones, Chair of the Republican National Committee, 19 August 1884

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 19, 2024August 20, 2024
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That’s A Wrap and Read All About It With The Preview from the Weekly Film Pictorial Section, Los Angeles Times, 4 August 1929

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 4, 2024
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“We Are Like Spoiled Children Who Are Accustomed to Having Everything Their Own Way”: Some History of Leonard J. Rose, 1827-1899, Part Seven

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 19, 2024July 19, 2024
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Reading Between the Lines From Point A to Point B With a Letter to Richard Smith of New York City From William B. King, California Southern Railroad Company, Los Angeles, 16 June 1887, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 18, 2024
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Sharing Some History With the Civil War Roundtable of Orange County About “Old Rosy,” General William S. Rosecrans, 1819-1898

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 21, 2024
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No Place Like Home Through the Viewfinder: A Cabinet Card Photo of The Bradbury Mansion, Los Angeles, ca. 1888

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 17, 2024February 18, 2024
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Drilling for Black Gold If The Spirit Moves You: A Stock Certificate of the Juanita Oil Company, Los Angeles, 25 January 1901, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 25, 2024January 26, 2024
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An Irish Woman’s Immigrant Story: Catherine O’Keefe Wilson in Los Angeles, 1859-1905

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 21, 2023November 25, 2023
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Take It To The Bank: A Temple and Workman, Bankers, Check From Daniel Freeman, “The Laird of Inglewood,” 13 August 1875

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  • Posted on August 13, 2023
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