Rancho Los Cerritos is happy to provide internship opportunities to college students every semester. Meet our latest cohort of interns! Nikkita Lynch is the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Intern this summer in the curatorial department. Mostly, she has been working hard on an important project related to our recently digitized oral history recordings. These recordings will[…]
Meet the Interns: Summer 2021
By Christa Weston internships, Job Opportunities, Uncategorized Aug 10, 2021
Library Exhibit: The Bixbys’ 1930s Remodel
By Rancho Staff exhibits, history, Long Beach, rlc175 Oct 31, 2019
This October, Rancho Los Cerritos installed the third in a series of special exhibits in the library display case that commemorates the demisemiseptcentennial. (175th anniversary) of the adobe’s construction (built in 1844). This latest display focuses on the remodel of the adobe during the 1930s. Brice Burtness (pictured with the exhibit), RLC’s Fall 2019 Creative Long Beach intern[…]
Library Exhibit: The Bixby Sheep Ranching Period 1866-1890
By Rancho Staff exhibits, history, rlc175 Jul 03, 2019
In late June, Rancho Los Cerritos installed the second in a series of special exhibits in the library display case that commemorates the demisemiseptcentennial. (175th anniversary) of the adobe’s construction (built in 1844). This latest display focuses on the time from John Temple’s sale of the Rancho to the Bixbys and the remarkably multi-cultural sheep[…]
Library Exhibit: John Temple and the Temple Period 1844-1866
By Rancho Staff exhibits, history, rlc175 Apr 03, 2019
In mid-March, Rancho Los Cerritos’ Arts Council Intern Keila Rivera installed the latest special exhibit in the library display case. The exhibit focuses on John Temple and the cattle ranching period at RLC and is the first installation in a series of displays that will commemorate the demisemiseptcentennial (175th anniversary) of the Rancho adobe’s construction.[…]
RLC Receives Priceless Donation from Bixby Descendants
By Rancho Staff history, rlc175 Feb 06, 2019
Stephen Dudley, grandson of 1930s-era RLC owners Avis and Llewellyn Bixby, visited the site late in January to donate a document to our collection. The document, dating from the 1850s, is nearly as old as the Rancho itself. “John Temple would have had to submit appeals to prove he owned the land,” RLC Curator Sarah[…]
Meet the Rancho Interns: Rosy
By Rancho Staff Job Opportunities Feb 06, 2017
A number of curatorial interns come through Rancho Los Cerritos’ green gates every semester, from colleges in Long Beach and across Southern California. At the Rancho, they help with preservation, documentation, and even the creation of exhibits. This month: meet Rosana Anguiano. Education info: BFA Drawing and Painting What led you to pursue an internship at the[…]