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San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
A strong man's house
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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
The Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) collection of prints and ephemera contains over 200 printed items related to the medical profession, including satire, medical curiosities, significant figures in the history of medicine, architectural views of hospitals, and the early years of LACMA itself. Many of the prints are engravings, some are lithographs, and a small selection are reproductions printed during a later period. The collection also includes personal correspondence, medical certificates and photographs of members of LACMA from the 20th century. The materials date from 1644 to 1946, although the bulk of the material dates from the late 18th to early 19th centuries. The collection covers topics including medicine, health, pharmaceuticals, patent medicines, quacks and quackery spanning over five centuries, as well as social perspectives on both the practices and practitioners in these fields.
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Rare Books
In the legend of the big timber country, Paul Bunyan and Babe, his big blue ox, are credited with or blamed for deforesting the woods. Actual responsibility more rightly belongs to one Ephraim Shay, Michigan logger, and designer of the logging locomotive which bears his name. Here is the story of the Shay and its use on the West Coast in an easy-to-read style with a matchless photographic collection of this mechnical strong man of the woods--Adapted from jacket.
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