Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Troubadour
Image not available
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Image not available
Visual Materials
The Jay T. Last collection of artist posters contains over 370 printed works spanning over eighty years, from 1883-1964. The bulk of the materials date from 1890 to 1900 and advertise American literary books and periodicals. Bicycles, household goods, and other products are also advertised. Notable artists represented in the collection include Will Bradley, Maynard Dixon, J. J. Gould, Edward Penfield, Ethel Reed, and Louis Rhead. Subjects addressed within the collection include international art styles (such as Art Nouveau), fashion, graphic design, publishing, book and literary journal publication, product advertising, and the intersections between them, especially during the last decade of the 19th century.
priJLC_ART_003223
Visual Materials
Image of six head-and-shoulders portraits of the two female and four male members of the comic troupe Salsbury's Troubadours wearing formal dress, in oval frames surrounded by plants, a crane, a turtle, and two anthropomorphized singing frogs; the portraits are unlabeled but presumably include troupe members Nate Salsbury, Nellie McHenry, and John L. Webster.
priJLC_ENT_000427
Visual Materials
Image of six indoor and outdoor scenes performed by the comic troupe Salsbury's Troubadours including a winter sleigh scene with a horse-drawn sleigh in the snow, and dramatic and musical scenes with characters in historic and contemporary costumes and including royalty, individuals holding swords, musicians with mandolins and bells, and a woman holding a glass of wine; a head-and-shoulders portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte in a circle frame at upper right.
priJLC_ENT_000428