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Tag: Los Angeles Times history 1929

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“Loyally, Honestly, Courageously and Industriously”: Mary Julia Workman and the Los Angeles Civil Service Commission, 1925-1929

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 13, 2026
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  • Architecture & Decoration

Ascending Spanish Steps With a Postcard of the Gainsborough Heath Sales Office, San Marino, postmarked 11 June 1929, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 15, 2026June 15, 2026
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  • Biographies

“A Detour Sign Reading ‘Guilty’ Had Been Posted on the Highway to Wealth”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Four

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 1, 2026June 2, 2026
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  • Architecture & Decoration

Take It To The Bank Through the Viewfinder: A Press Photo of the Site of the Federal Reserve Bank Building, Los Angeles, early April 1929

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 2, 2026April 3, 2026
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  • Places & Communities

Raze and Means: The Plan to Level and Redevelop Bunker Hill in “California Constructor,” 15 March 1928, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 18, 2026March 19, 2026
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Through the Viewfinder From Point A to Point B: A Snapshot of an Airplane at Clover Field, Santa Monica, 16 March 1924

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 16, 2026April 1, 2026
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All Over The Map With a “Map Showing The Location Of A Certain Reservoir For The City Of Los Angeles In The Big Tujunga Canyon,” Notarized on 10 March 1927, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 14, 2026
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  • Biographies

Games People Play: The Tragic Tale of USC Quarterback Johnny Hawkins, 1928-1929, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 20, 2025
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

That’s the Pits, Too: A Photo of the Consolidated Rock Products Company Plant at Irwindale, 1 August 1929, Part Seven

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 11, 2025August 12, 2025
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  • Biographies

“Exceeded Only by the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Shows”: Baldwin Park and The Al G. Barnes Big 5 Ring Wild Animal Circus, Part Seven

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 31, 2025
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