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A letter to Americans in Europe
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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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Image of an advertisement for Scribner's magazine January issue; a streetcar runs along a waterfront area near docks and under a large crane; industrial cityscape in background.
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Two disbound photograph albums containing 138 commercial photographs of Europe, circa 1880s (volume 1), and 40 photographs of Southern California and the American West, circa 1890s (volume 2). Volume 1 consists of commercial photographs of European tourist scenes including landmarks, monuments, cathedrals, historic buildings, and landscapes chiefly in Germany, Austria, France, and England. There are also two loose photographs of Moscow, Russia, stamped "B. Avanzo, Moscou" on the verso. The photographs are various sizes and primarily black-and-white, though there are some colored images. Volume 2 consists of commercial images of locations in the American West, particularly Southern California and San Diego, as well as a few views of Coronado, Ontario, Santa Barbara, Utah, and Arizona, and images associated with railroads, including the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Images primarily include elevated views of towns, landscapes, railroad bridges and tracks, as well as a photograph of the Alexander Mitchell, a Wisconsin steamboat. Images in volume 2 are chiefly about 11.5 x 18.5 cm. Most photographers are unidentified though two photographs are labeled Parker Photo and Turner & Judd. Included in the first volume is a handwritten list of some of the railroad views on 1890s letterhead of the St. Aloysius Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Chicago, Illinois.
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