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Tag: Rancho La Merced history

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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 1, 2023
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Transformation in the Teens Postview, “In This Lucky Incident There Was a Degree of Poetic Justice”: An Account of the Discovery of Oil at the Temple Lease, Montebello Oil Field, 28 January 1918

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 22, 2023
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Transformation in the Teens Preview: The Walter P. and Laura G. Temple Family’s Extreme Makeover, 1911-1920

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 20, 2023January 21, 2023
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Compadres: The Davis, Workman and Temple Families

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 10, 2022March 15, 2022
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from William W. Temple to Elias J. “Lucky” Baldwin, 12 November 1880

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 18, 2021February 8, 2024
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NiƱos en Dos Mundos: The Mixed Ethnicity of the Children of Antonia Margarita Workman and F.P.F. Temple

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 15, 2021September 15, 2022
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A Gift of a Photo of the Manzanares Family of Misión Vieja (Old Mission), ca. 1915

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 14, 2021
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“Received from Her Ready Hand”: A Document Disposing of the Property of Antonia Margarita Workman de Temple, 27 January 1892

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 27, 2021
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Reading Between the Lines: A Letter to Walter P. Temple from Arthur A. “Ben” Gale of the United States Army Signal Corps, 20 January 1918

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 20, 2021January 20, 2021
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  • Places & Communities

From Monte to Misión Vieja: A Gap Wider Than Five Miles, 1850-1930

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 27, 2020January 4, 2021
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