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Tag: Pasadena California history

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“The Eternal City and the Electric City”: Rome and Los Angeles in Grace Ellery Channing’s “The Meeting of Extremes,” Out West Magazine, September 1903

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  • Posted on September 6, 2023September 7, 2023
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“The Higher Possibilities of our City by the Sunset Sea”: George Wharton James and his “A Vision for Los Angeles,” Out West Magazine, May 1913, Part One

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  • Posted on May 4, 2023
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“Intelligence as the Guide to Generosity:” Margaret Brewer Fowler (1863-1931), Pasadena Philanthropist

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  • Posted on October 10, 2022March 1, 2023
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“Along Those Lines Conducive to the Uplift of Humanity”: Eulogizing Dr. Norman Bridge in “The Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Medical Association,” 5 February 1925

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  • Posted on February 5, 2022February 7, 2022
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“Above the Babel of Voices”: Photos from the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, 1909, 1915, 1920, 1929

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  • Posted on December 31, 2020January 29, 2022
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Sharing History with Pasadena Heritage

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  • Posted on September 12, 2020January 4, 2021
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“A Specimen of Longevity”: A Stereoscopic Photograph of Eulalia Pérez de Guillen, San Gabriel, ca. 1877

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  • Posted on May 25, 2020December 29, 2020
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La La Landscapes: The Garden of Dr. Rudolph Schiffman, Pasadena, ca. 1920s

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  • Posted on February 24, 2020December 29, 2020
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  • Reading Between the Lines From Point A to Point B With a Letter from Charles Forman of the Los Angeles Cable Railway, 21 September 1888
  • That’s a Wrap with NOW, the Newsletter of West Coast Theatres, Inc., Los Angeles, 17 September 1928

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