William D. Estrada
William D. Estrada is Curator of California and American History and Chair of the History Department at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. He holds a PhD in History from UCLA and is a social and cultural historian, specializing in 19th and early-20th-century Los Angeles.
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