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Tag: Los Angeles Times history 1916

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Sharing History with the Civil War Roundtable of Orange County: Charles M. Jenkins and His Postwar Years in Los Angeles, 1865-1933

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 16, 2023May 16, 2023
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  • Places & Communities

Making a Statement: Walter P. Temple’s Land Account, 1 April 1915

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 1, 2023
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  • Education

“You Are the Friend Waiting for Me in Los Angeles”: Mary Julia Workman and the Brownson Settlement House, Los Angeles, 1900-1920, Part Four

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  • Posted on January 7, 2023January 7, 2023
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Take It On Faith While Reading Between the Lines: A Letter from Pastor Charles F. Hutslar of Broadway Christian Church to Robert A. Rowan, Los Angeles, 21 April 1916

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 21, 2022
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  • Agriculture

“Los Angeles, The Paradise of California”: A Paean to the Angel City by Benjamin C. Truman in the New York Times, 12 March 1869

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  • Posted on March 12, 2022March 15, 2022
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  • Law & Crime

“The Boldest Gang of Bandits That Ever Infested The City”: The High Powered Rifle Bandit Gang Captured in Los Angeles, 28 February 1916

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  • Posted on February 28, 2022March 2, 2022
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  • Biographies

Una Hija Natural: Solving the Mystery of Identifying Laura González Temple’s Mother Francisca Valenzuela

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  • Posted on November 29, 2021March 1, 2023
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  • Places & Communities

Games People Play From Point A to Point B: The Original Cannonball Run in a Cadillac Eight from Los Angeles to New York, 8-15 May 1916

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  • Posted on May 15, 2021
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Happy #nationaltrailsday ! Here's a photo from 1906 featuring a man atop a mule while traveling Mt. Wilson. Do you have a local trail you love to walk?
Check out these then and now photos of our Mission Walkway. The top picture is from 1925 and features Thomas Temple!
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Being in CA, we often think that slavery didn’t happen here, but after an enlightening and thought-provoking afternoon with Dr. Kevin Waite @kevinwaite yesterday discussing his book West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire all in attendance learned the true story. His book tackles the often untold history of how and why Southern slaveholders infiltrated the American West in the years leading up to the Civil War and how they kept a stranglehold there for decades to come.

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