Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Thoughts, essays, and maxims, chiefly religious and political. : By Charles Howard
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Rare Books
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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
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Visual Materials
A collection of fifteen comic valentines (also known as vinegar valentines and penny dreadfuls), created by illustrator Charles J. Howard dating from approximately the 1880s to 1910s. The valentines ridicule men and women for their physical attributes, racial and ethnic backgrounds, occupations, habits, and behaviors with short rhymes and satirical images. The hand-colored wood engravings include garish caricatures colored in shades of red, blue, green, and yellow on inexpensive paper. Some of the prints are signed by the artist with the letter "H."Titles of prints include: Chamber-Maid; Clerk in a Beanery; Clumsy Blacksmith; Cook; Expressman; A Foul-Mouthed Driver; A Highly Decorated Countenance; Hotel Keeper; An Irish Cur; Jack of all Trades; An Old Reprobate; A Street Flaunter; A Tough Old Gal; The Tough Girl is Going to be a New Woman Too, See!; You Should Advertise Like This."
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