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“The Fact That This Class of People Are Buying in This Property Speaks for Itself”: Letters Regarding North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 25-26 May 1913

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 26, 2023
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Through the Viewfinder with Snapshots of the Will Keith Kellogg Ranch, Spadra (Pomona), ca. 1925

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  • Posted on May 23, 2023May 24, 2023
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“The Greatest Merit as an Investment of any Citrus Land Subdivision Being Offered on the Market of California To-Day”: A Quintet of Letters for the Development of North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 6 March 1913

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 6, 2023March 6, 2023
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What’s In Store: The “Furniture February” Catalog from Bullock’s, Los Angeles, 1924

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 4, 2023April 18, 2023
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“This is High-Class Both as an Investment and for a Suburban Home”: A Quintet of Letters Regarding North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 1 May 1914

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 1, 2022
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“The Highest Class and Most Desirable Citrus Land Subdivision on the Market in Southern California Today”: A Sextet of Letters about North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 17 March 1914

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 17, 2022
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All Over the Map: A United States Geological Survey Map of the Covina Quadrangle, Edition of 1927

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 16, 2022March 16, 2022
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Compadres: The Davis, Workman and Temple Families

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  • Posted on March 10, 2022March 15, 2022
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Thomas W. Temple II to Walter P. Temple, 21 February 1927

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 21, 2022February 22, 2022
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“Follow ‘Lucky’ Baldwin’s Footsteps”: Selling La Fortuna Farms in Advertisements, 1913

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  • Posted on January 11, 2022January 12, 2022
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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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