@HomesteadMuseum

A six-acre historic site located 20 miles east of Downtown LA. Creating advocates for history through the stories of greater Los Angeles.

 City of Industry, CA
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Joined November 2012
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“The Stock Market Gives Every Indication of ‘Finding’ Itself”: Saturday Night Magazine, Los Angeles, 12 October 1929 homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/10…

“The Stock Market Gives Every Indication of ‘Finding’ Itself”: Saturday Night Magazine, Los...

by Paul R. Spitzzeri A few posts on this blog have featured issues of Saturday Night, or Los Angeles Saturday Night, magazine, published by the obscure, but notable, Angel City publisher Samuel T. …

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Games People Play: A Los Angeles City League Program for the Hollywood High vs. Jefferson High Football Game, 11 October 1929 homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/10…
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“Intelligence as the Guide to Generosity:” Margaret Brewer Fowler (1863-1931), Pasadena Philanthropist homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/10…
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“The Stronger Will be Our Family Lines When Records and History are Made”: Sunny Slope Acres, the Precursor to Temple City, 1921-1923 homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/10…

“The Stronger Will be Our Family Lines When Records and History are Made”: Sunny Slope Acres, the...

by Paul R. Spitzzeri Today was the reopening of the Temple City Historical Museum and it was a pleasure to be there with our friends from the Temple City Historical Society as they had a ribbon-cut…

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“Their Improvement in Personal Appearance and Intelligence of Countenance is Really Thrilling”: The Report on An Experiment Made in Los Angeles in the Summer of 1917 for the Americanization of Foreign-born Women, Part Two homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/10…

“Their Improvement in Personal Appearance and Intelligence of Countenance is Really Thrilling”: The...

by Paul R. Spitzzeri As we move to the second and final part of this post on the State Commission of Immigration and Housing of California’s “Report on an Experiment Made in Los Angeles…

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“Quite as Happily as if They Had All Been Born Under One Flag”: The Report on An Experiment Made in Los Angeles in the Summer of 1917 for the Americanization of Foreign-born Women, Part One homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/10…

“Quite as Happily as if They Had All Been Born Under One Flag”: The Report on An Experiment Made in...

by Paul R. Spitzzeri Today’s meeting of the Homestead’s Fiction Book Club was to discuss Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic St…

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“Undoubtedly Destined to be One of the Important Cities of the Continent, Taking Rank in Time With the Great Cities of the World”: The Californian Illustrated Magazine’s Article on the “New Los Angeles,” Part Two, October 1892 homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/10…

“Undoubtedly Destined to be One of the Important Cities of the Continent, Taking Rank in Time With...

by Paul R. Spitzzeri We continue our delving into the pages of The Californian Illustrated Magazine’s October 1892 issue, with the focus on the remarkable article by J.R. Henderson called …

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“The Excitement Was Raised to the Pitch of Madness”: The Californian Illustrated Magazine’s Article on the “New Los Angeles,” Part One, October 1892 homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/10…
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“Join the Progressives” in The California Outlook, Los Angeles, 4 October 1913 homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/10…
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“A Man Without Worthy Aims and of Weak Principles Will Go to Perdition”: Mining Life in California in Harper’s Weekly, 3 October 1857 homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/10…
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Treading the Boards with Wo/men at Work: An Orpheum Theater Circuit Contract with Ballet Dancer Simeon Karavaeff and His Four Stepping Sisters, Los Angeles, 2 October 1925 homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/10…

Treading the Boards with Wo/men at Work: An Orpheum Theater Circuit Contract with Ballet Dancer...

by Paul R. Spitzzeri As has been frequently noted on this blog, as greater Los Angeles experienced enormous growth during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there were so many areas in which t…

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From Point A to Point B on the Transcontinental Railroad with A Memorial of the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California, 1 October 1861 homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/10…
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Read All About It: The McDonald Murder in the Los Angeles Express, 29 September 1874 homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/09…
Read All About It in the B’nai B’rith Messenger, Los Angeles, 27 September 1929 homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/09…
Navigating a New Century Postlude Postscript: “Charges of a Very Grave Nature” against Charles P. Temple, 1904 homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/09…
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Navigating a New Century Postlude: The Temple-Basye Family Feud, 1899-1903, Part Two homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/09…
Navigating a New Century Postlude: The Temple-Basye Family Feud, 1899-1903, Part One homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/09…

Navigating a New Century Postlude: The Temple-Basye Family Feud, 1899-1903, Part One

by Paul R. Spitzzeri The last two installments of the series of presentations on the Workman and Temple family in Los Angeles, proceeding decade by decade during the Homestead’s interpretive …

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Navigating a New Century Preview: The Workman and Temple Family at the Dawn of the 20th Century homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/09…
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Read All About It in The Junior Times, 22 September 1929 homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/09…
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