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Tag: Rio Hondo

  • Politics & Government

All Over The Map: “Sketch of the Passage of the Rio San Gabriel, Upper California, 8 January 1847”

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  • Posted on January 8, 2020December 29, 2020
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  • Politics & Government

Commodore Robert F. Stockton’s Report on Military and Naval Operations in California, 16 February 1849, Part Three

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  • Posted on February 19, 2019December 29, 2020
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  • Places & Communities

Sharing the History of the Portolá Expedition of 1769-1770 in Whittier, Part Two

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  • Posted on January 24, 2019January 7, 2021
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  • Places & Communities

Remnant Landscapes at Mision Vieja (Old Mission), South El Monte and Montebello

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 22, 2018January 13, 2021
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  • Oil Industry

Drilling for Black Gold on the Temple Lease, Montebello Oil Field, June 1917

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 25, 2017December 28, 2020
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  • Outdoors

At Our Leisure: The San Gabriel River in the Mountains, 1910s and 1920s

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  • Posted on June 3, 2017December 28, 2020
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  • Miscellaneous

Read All About It in the “Los Angeles Herald,” 24 March 1875

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 24, 2017December 29, 2020
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  • Places & Communities

Sharing the History of Old Mission at the Whittier Narrows Nature Center

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 29, 2016January 4, 2021
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  • Transportation & Infrastructure

All Over The Map: An 1853 Transcontinental Railroad Survey through the San Gabriel Valley

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  • Posted on October 9, 2016December 30, 2020
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  • Miscellaneous

All Over the Map: Greater Los Angeles in 1872

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  • Posted on August 22, 2016January 4, 2021
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Recent Posts

  • “Valuable Services of an Executive and Business Nature”: An Agreement Regarding the Temple Estate Company, 2 June 1924
  • “To Promote in the Study of the Development of Civilization in England and America”: The Third Annual Report of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1929-1930, Part Two
  • “To Promote in the Study of the Development of Civilization in England and America”: The Third Annual Report of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1929-1930, Part One
  • No Place Like Home: The Best Laid Plans of Architect Anton W. Riewe for Antonio Merlo’s Proposed House, Avocado Heights, ca. 1920s
  • At Our Leisure with Photos from Switzer’s Camp, San Gabriel Mountains, 30 May 1921

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Happy #nationaltrailsday ! Here's a photo from 1906 featuring a man atop a mule while traveling Mt. Wilson. Do you have a local trail you love to walk?
Check out these then and now photos of our Mission Walkway. The top picture is from 1925 and features Thomas Temple!
Congratulations to those graduating this term!
We're joining the Archive Babies hashtag today with a couple of photos from our collection!
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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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