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Tag: Standard Oil Company of California Montebello

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Transformation in the Teens Postview, “In This Lucky Incident There Was a Degree of Poetic Justice”: An Account of the Discovery of Oil at the Temple Lease, Montebello Oil Field, 28 January 1918

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 22, 2023
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Making a Statement: A “Report of Disbursements and Receipts” for Walter P. Temple, 20 March to 19 April 1922

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on April 18, 2021
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Reading Between the Lines: A Letter to Walter P. Temple from Arthur A. “Ben” Gale of the United States Army Signal Corps, 20 January 1918

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  • Posted on January 20, 2021January 20, 2021
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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
  • “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
  • Getting Schooled With Helen M. Pierce’s “The Graduate School Days” Scrapbook, Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles, 1917
  • Treading the Boards with a Program for “Beau Brummel,” Belasco Theatre, Los Angeles, the Week of 24 May 1909
  • Through the Viewfinder with Snapshots of the Will Keith Kellogg Ranch, Spadra (Pomona), ca. 1925

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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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