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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The flea
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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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Rare Books
Styled as a folk tale, The steel flea tells a story of a left-handed arms craftsman from Tula (traditionally a center of the Russian armaments industry) who outperformed his English colleagues by providing a clockwork steel flea he'd made with horseshoes and inscriptions on them.
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Visual Materials
Portfolio of artistic photographs by photographer Joel D. Levinson depicting scenes from various California flea markets. Includes many portraits of vendors, often with emphasis upon their living conditions, their automobiles, their clothing fashions, and their goods for sale. Flea market locations are unidentified. These images are among those reproduced in the following publications: Photographs/Joel D. Levinson (1984) and Flohmärkte = Fleamarkets = Les marchés aux puces (1986).
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