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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
From New York to the hills and homes of Berkshire
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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
This collection contains 1289 photographs, chiefly gelatin silver prints, reflecting the professional life and travels of American impressionist painter Alson Skinner Clark, some taken by Alson Clark and some by commercial and unidentified photographers, from approximately 1889-1939. The collection chiefly comprises portraits of Alson and his wife Atta Medora Clark; photographs depicting their studio home in the Arroyo Seco area of Los Angeles County, California; views of Clark's work, including murals at the Pasadena Playhouse, the Polytechnic Elementary School, and the First Trust and Savings Bank in Pasadena; and images of Alson Clark's travels, both with and without Medora Clark, to Thousand Islands, New York; throughout the Southwestern United States; Mexico; and, to a lesser extent, in Europe and Canada. The collection also includes photograph albums depicting the aftermath of World War I in Europe and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 in San Diego, and photographs depicting various locations in India, China, and Korea in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection is directly related to the Alson Skinner Clark papers, 1870-1971, bulk 1890-1940, held by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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Visual Materials
Image of an elevated landscape view of the New York State Soldier's and Sailor's Home in Bath, New York, showing five buildings surrounding a center yard, with troops lined up around a fountain, and soldiers raising an American flag up a flag pole, with trees and hills in the background.
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Visual Materials
Image of an advertisement for the Home Insurance Company of New-York, with offices in New York City; image of the wrecking steamboat Magnet sailing at center; ships on the water in background; list of lake agents of the Home Insurance Company at bottom right and left.
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