Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The march of intellect : a comic poem
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
The William H. Helfand Collection contains more than 7,000 European and American prints and ephemera relating to health professions including medical, dental, and mental wellness. The materials date from the 1490s to the early 21st century and contain many social and political cartoons that satirize health practices and practitioners. Noted illustrators represented include French artists Honore Daumier, Gustave Dore, J. J. Grandville, and Emile Vernier; British caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, and James Gillray; and the American cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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Visual Materials
[print, color; caricature with airship bombing ships at sea] Artist(s): Paul Pry. Printer /Publisher text: "Pub. Jany 23-1828 by G. Humphrey St. James's Street." From Anderson Galleries catalog no. 1404, item 69.
RB 10015
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Visual Materials
[print, color; caricature; same image as RB 10015, Item No. 52] Artist(s): Paul Pry. Printer /Publisher text: "Pub. By Y. Mclean 26 Haymarket wher Political and other caricatures are daily Pub. The largest collection of any house in London."
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