Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Tahiti the golden
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Palm trees bend in the wind along shoreline of inlet with ocean extending out to horizon.
mssJL JLP 322
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Visual Materials
The Fanchon & Marco collection contains approximately 1400 photographs depicting hundreds of Fanchon and Marco Inc. sets and performers between approximately 1925 and 1938. The collection also includes three boxes of ephemera, dated from around 1912 to 1940, that consist of newspapers clippings, musical scores, miscellaneous photographs, and the supplemental press books that were included with Fanchon & Marco's promotional magazine, Now (later The Idea), dating from 1930 and 1931. The 16 volumes (now disbound) of photographs in this collection served as a visual inventory for hundreds of Fanchon & Marco sets and performers. The images document the actors, dancers, costumes, sets, and concepts and appear to have been primarily photographed during rehearsals before the shows premiered in Los Angeles theaters such as Loew's State Theater and the Paramount Theater. The first volume contains some photographs presumably taken in San Francisco and later volumes include a few photographs by New York-based photographers. Photographers represented in the collection are: Archer's Art Shop of Los Angeles; Hollywood photographers Irving Archer; Archer's Studios; Curt Fox; Paralta Studios; and Harry Wenger. A few photographs include the imprints of Peerless Photo of Los Angeles, John Sirgio, H.W. Steward of San Francisco, Talbot of New York, Weaver of Los Angeles, and White Studio of New York.
photCL 487
Manuscripts
Bound in brown, faux animal skin material. The title, "Tahiti and the Marquesas," is embossed in the center of cover in gold lettering. The number "57" is affixed to the top of spine with glue. Images are of people and places taken while the London's and the Snark crew, including Martin Johnson, were in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands.
JLP 495
Manuscripts
Album is bound in brown faux animal skin material. A fleur de lis graphic element is embossed in the center of cover. Below that the title, "Fair Tahiati [sic]," is embossed in gold lettering. The number "59" is affixed to the top of spine with glue. Images are primarily commercial souvenir photographs and postcards of Tahitians. Also some photos likely taken by a news service, of storm damage from the cyclone that took place in French Polynesia in 1906.
JLP 497