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Tag: San Gabriel California history

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“His Sole Dependence for His Future Maintenance”: A Report to the United States Senate on the Memorial of William Money of Los Angeles, 27 May 1852

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  • Posted on May 27, 2023
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Sharing History with the San Gabriel Historical Association on the Workman and Temple Family and Their “Mission City Affinity”

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  • Posted on May 15, 2023May 16, 2023
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Treading the Boards While in the Portrait Gallery: A Photo of Chickasaw Nation Actor William F. Harrison in the Mission Play, San Gabriel, ca. 1925

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  • Posted on September 11, 2022September 15, 2022
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“Romance Never Dies in Old San Gabriel”: A New Donation of Artifacts Related to the Mission Play, 1910s-1930s

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  • Posted on May 19, 2022
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Reading Between the Lines in a Trio of Letters to William Workman by Volney E. Howard, 1854-1861

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  • Posted on April 20, 2022
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Making a Statement: A “Report of Disbursements and Receipts” for Walter P. Temple, 20 March to 19 April 1922

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  • Posted on April 18, 2021
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“The White Man’s Christianity and Civilization on the Western Shore of America”: A Pamphlet for The Mission Play, San Gabriel, 1920

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  • Posted on January 17, 2021January 17, 2021
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From Point A to Point B: A Souvenir Photo of Tourists at Mission San Gabriel, 23 July 1909

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  • Posted on July 23, 2020December 30, 2020
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“A Specimen of Longevity”: A Stereoscopic Photograph of Eulalia Pérez de Guillen, San Gabriel, ca. 1877

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  • Posted on May 25, 2020December 29, 2020
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That’s a Wrap with a Publicity Photo of Actor Lloyd Hughes, ca. 1929

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  • Posted on March 28, 2020December 29, 2020
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  • “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!
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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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