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Tag: San Pedro California history

  • Biographies

Shipping “The Staples of Our County” With Bills of Lading to William Workman from Tomlinson & Co. and the Steamship “Senator,” 4 and 7 June 1864

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 7, 2026
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  • Commerce & Manufacturing

Read All About It in the San Pedro Harbor Advocate, 5 October 1889

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 5, 2024
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  • Workman & Temple Family

Reading Between the Lines in Letters from Walter P. Temple to Laura González, 14 May 1887 and to Thomas W. Temple II, 14 May 1933

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 14, 2024May 15, 2024
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“Los Angeles, Calif., AD 1917, As Seen” in Cartoons Magazine, February 1918

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 2, 2024February 3, 2024
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Blast from the Past With a Photo of a Moonshiner’s Still Explosion, Harbor City, Los Angeles, November 1926

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 1, 2023November 2, 2023
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  • Oil Industry

Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Charles W. Tandy of the Temple Estate Company to Walter P. Temple, 17 October 1930

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 17, 2023October 18, 2023
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Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from George H. Woodruff to Walter P. Temple, 2 September 1931

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 3, 2023September 3, 2023
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  • Agriculture

Fits the Bill: A Bill of Lading from Kohler & Frohling to William Workman, 17 August 1860

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 17, 2023August 18, 2023
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“This Harbor Can Never Be Made to Accommodate Large Ships”: A Letter from the Secretary of War to the House of Representatives on a Survey of San Pedro Bay, California, February 1888

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022
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“Never Since Adam Ploughed In Eden”: A Letter from Greater Los Angeles to the New York Herald, 22 December 1849

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on December 22, 2021
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