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Tag: Port of Los Angeles history

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Shipping “The Staples of Our County” With Bills of Lading to William Workman from Tomlinson & Co. and the Steamship “Senator,” 4 and 7 June 1864

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 7, 2026
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Read All About It in the Los Angeles Herald, 6 March 1875

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  • Posted on March 6, 2026
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“The Question Appears to Me to Be Deserving of Careful Examination and Study, and I Recommend the Place as ‘Worthy of Improvement.'”: A Letter from the Secretary of War on A Survey of San Pedro Bay, California, 28 February 1888

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 28, 2025
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“The Main Features of Interest and Importance”: A Booklet on “Los Angeles: The Great Seaport of the Southwest,” 1921

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 19, 2025
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“There Has Never in the Commercial History of the World Been Anything Like This Growth”: The Port of Los Angeles Annual Report, 1926, Part One

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  • Posted on March 10, 2024March 12, 2024
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At Our Leisure with a Photo of a Hiker in Millard Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, November 1919, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 6, 2023
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Through the Viewfinder: Panoramic Photos of the Southern California Fish Company, Terminal Island, ca. 1912-1914

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 26, 2021
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Read All About It In “Saturday Night” Magazine, Los Angeles, 16 July 1927

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 16, 2020December 30, 2020
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“The Marvel of the Age in City Building”: Harrison Gray Otis on Los Angeles from Sunset Magazine, January 1910

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 20, 2020December 28, 2020
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“The Centre of a Wide-Spread and Profitable Commerce”: The Report of Gilbert Rodman on California Customs Revenue, 1850

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  • Posted on September 18, 2019December 30, 2020
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  • “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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