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“Its Cheerful Outlook, its Semi-Tropical Surroundings and its Profusion of Home Comforts Have Made it Popular”: Some Further History of Sierra Madre Villa, 1887-1891

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 20, 2024November 21, 2024
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“A Spot of Glorious Beauty, Enriched With Fig and Orange and Vine and All the Attractions of This Winterless Land”: Some Further History of Sierra Madre Villa, 1884-1886

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 19, 2024
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“The Most Attractive Spot for a Quiet, Good Time on the American Continent”: Some Further History of Sierra Madre Villa, 1881-1883

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 18, 2024November 19, 2024
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“The Whole Scene Suddenly Bursts on the Eye and Fills One With the Most Pleasant Sensations”: Some Early History of Sierra Madre Villa, 1875-1880, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 16, 2024
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Working the Land: A San Gabriel Valley Apiary, ca. 1878

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 22, 2017December 29, 2020
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At Our Leisure at the Sierra Madre Villa hotel, Pasadena, ca. 1890s

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 13, 2016December 30, 2020
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Recent Posts

  • Getting Schooled While Reading Between the Lines in a Letter from Thomas W. Temple II to Walter P. Temple, Sr., 2 June 1927
  • “A Detour Sign Reading ‘Guilty’ Had Been Posted on the Highway to Wealth”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Four
  • “The Charge of Grand Larceny . . . Won’t Hold Water for a Minute”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Three
  • “The Deal Was a Huge Bunco Game”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part Two
  • “Accused of Being ‘Get-Rich-Quick-Wallingfords'”: A Press Photograph of Alleged Ponzi Schemers Thomas M. Hennessey and Harry D. Hibbs, May 1925, Part One

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