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Tag: Whittier News history 1917

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“The Show That’s Different”: Baldwin Park and The Al G. Barnes Big 5 Ring Wild Animal Circus, Part Three

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on July 23, 2025July 24, 2025
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  • Agriculture

“The Surroundings and Environment of the Montebello Oil Country Are Picturesque and Attractive in the Extreme”: Some Early History of Montebello to 1930, Part Six

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 16, 2025
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  • Oil Industry

Oil as “A Tremendous Boost to the Little Town of Montebello”: Some Early History of Montebello to 1930, Part Five

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on May 15, 2025
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  • Oil Industry

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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At Our Leisure with a Photo from Hoegee’s Camp, San Gabriel Mountains, ca. 1920s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on June 15, 2022June 16, 2022
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