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“The Question Appears to Me to Be Deserving of Careful Examination and Study, and I Recommend the Place as ‘Worthy of Improvement.'”: A Letter from the Secretary of War on A Survey of San Pedro Bay, California, 28 February 1888

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 28, 2025
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From Point A to Point B: The National Convention of the Order of Railway Conductors, Los Angeles, 11-17 May 1897

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  • Posted on May 11, 2019December 30, 2020
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Read All About It: News from Los Angeles in The New York Daily Tribune, 10 September 1855

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 10, 2018January 13, 2021
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Victorian Fair Themes: “Wilmington Breakwater,” ca. 1872

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  • Posted on April 25, 2018January 11, 2021
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Read All About It in the “San Pedro Times,” 17 February 1894

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 17, 2018January 11, 2021
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All Over the Map: United States Coast Survey of the Pacific Coast, San Pedro, early 1850s

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  • Posted on January 11, 2017January 7, 2021
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Curious Cases: A Rare Photo of Jailer and Police Officer Francis J. Carpenter, ca. 1879

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 16, 2016December 30, 2020
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