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Food for Thought: Some History of Mexican Restaurants in Greater Los Angeles, 1875-1900, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 2, 2026
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“Served Well in Army, Field and at Bar”: Some History of Alfred Beck Chapman (1829-1915), Part Six

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  • Posted on April 18, 2026April 19, 2026
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No Place Like Home: A Photo of Gould’s Folly, The Castle of La Crescenta, ca. 1908, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 22, 2025
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“Let Therefore Every Returning Chanukah Festival Bring New Light Into Every Jewish Heart”: The Celebration of Hanukkah in Los Angeles, 1885-1900, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 15, 2025December 16, 2025
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Through the Viewfinder With a Photo of Los Angeles Fire Department Engine Company No. 1, ca. 1906, Part Two

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  • Posted on September 12, 2025
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Rocky Road: A Photo of the Consolidated Rock Products Company Plant at Irwindale, 1 August 1929, Part One

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  • Posted on August 1, 2025August 2, 2025
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The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: Gustavus Woodson Wickliffe (1869-1921), Southern California’s First African-American Attorney Admitted to the Bar

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  • Posted on June 2, 2025August 16, 2025
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Drilling for Black Gold: Sharing Early Olinda (Brea) Oil History With the Orange County Historical Society, 1865-1889, Part Seven

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 22, 2025
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Reading Between the Lines in a Pair of Letters Regarding North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 22 January 1915

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 22, 2025
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“At Last We See the Old Days of Jollity and Prosperity Returning”: Some Further History of Sierra Madre Villa, 1892-1899

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  • Posted on November 21, 2024
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  • “In The Old But Noted City, With Its Unsurpassed Almost Tropical Climate”: The Visit of John Quincy Adams Warren to Greater Los Angeles, November and December 1860, Part One
  • “All the Dignity of Former Days Has Departed, Leaving Tumbling Tombs and Caving Crypts to the Small Sympathy of Beast and Insect”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Five
  • “Old Calvary Has Become More Valuable to the Living Than to the Dead, And the March of Civilization is Soon to Overwhelm It”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Four
  • “The Family Legend of an Ancestor Being Lost in America”: Seeking George W. Pflugradt, 1819-1857
  • “Before This Historical Graveyard is Past All Hope of Preservation”: Some Further History of the Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, 1896-1944, Part Three

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