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Tag: San Gabriel Valley history

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A Memorial Day Observance of San Gabriel Valley Soldiers Who Sacrificed Their Lives from “The Upper San Gabriel Valley In The [First World] War”, 1919

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  • Posted on May 29, 2023
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  • Agriculture

“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

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  • Posted on May 26, 2023
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Sharing History with Pasadena Heritage

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  • Posted on September 12, 2020January 4, 2021
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  • Biographies

Sharing History in Glendora about Rancho Los Alisos and Charles Silent

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  • Posted on August 25, 2020December 30, 2020
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  • Places & Communities

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

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  • Posted on June 27, 2020January 4, 2021
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  • Transportation & Infrastructure

From Point A to Point B: A Stock Certificate for the San Gabriel Valley Rapid Transit Railway, 23 May 1888

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  • Posted on May 23, 2020December 29, 2020
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Read All About It in “The Valley Beautiful Magazine,” November 1926

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  • Posted on November 9, 2019January 6, 2021
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  • Places & Communities

“The Valley Beautiful Magazine,” July 1926

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  • Posted on July 5, 2019January 7, 2021
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Noah’s Flood in an ARkStorm on the San Gabriel River/Rio Hondo in Whittier Narrows

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  • Posted on February 23, 2019January 7, 2021
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Time Capsule Tuesday: Stanford Research Institute Study on the City of Industry, 1957-1970, Part Five

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  • Posted on February 27, 2018January 11, 2021
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  • “Valuable Services of an Executive and Business Nature”: An Agreement Regarding the Temple Estate Company, 2 June 1924
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  • “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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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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