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Tag: Rancho La Puente history

  • Agriculture

“The Conditions Necessary to Grow ‘Citrus Groves That Pay'”: Letters Promoting North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, December 1913

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 6, 2021
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  • Biographies

Niños 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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Rescuing Remnants Preview: Setting the Stage for Josephine Workman’s Transformation into Silent Film Actor Princess Mona Darkfeather, 1882-1910

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 7, 2021September 8, 2021
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  • Agriculture

“For Handling the Output of the Fertile Acres”: A Donation of Documents from the North Whittier Heights Citrus Association, 1916-1935

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 5, 2021
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  • Agriculture

Horticulture in Happy Valley: Three Documents Concerning Early North Whittier (Hacienda) Heights, 7 May 1914

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 7, 2021May 8, 2021
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  • Law & Crime

“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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  • Homes

Gold, Guns and Growth Preview: The Expansion of the Workman House During the 1850s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 8, 2021January 9, 2021
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  • Workman & Temple Family

Through the Viewfinder: The Temple Block, Los Angeles, ca. 1872

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 30, 2020December 30, 2020
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  • Agriculture

“The Hanging Gardens of Southern California”: Edwin G. Hart and the Avocado Subdivisions of Hacienda Heights and La Habra Heights, 1913-1930

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 28, 2020December 30, 2020
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  • Real Estate

Letters Concerning the Opening of the North Whittier Heights (Hacienda Heights) Subdivision, May 1913

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 12, 2020December 29, 2020
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