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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Image of an elevated landscape view of a steam locomotive and passenger train with baggage and sleeping cars crossing the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge between the bridge towers on the New York side of the gorge; with pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage below the bridge and Witmer's Mill behind it, and Niagara Falls, the banks, and the covered enclosure of an incline railway in the distance; the locomotive has a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement and the cab and tender are labeled "207."
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Image of a fragment of a poster advertising the Michigan Central Railroad with an image of a bearded king holding a fork and knife at a dining table with a black angel holding a plate hovering over his shoulder; verso contains a fragment of a print head-and-shoulders portrait of American actor Maggie Mitchell; images pasted to a leaf of an account-book for the Toledo Wabash & Western Railway Company.
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Image of a map of a portion of the Midwestern and Eastern United States showing the routes of the Toledo, Wabash, and Western Railway and connecting lines, centered with promotional text; map verso contains panels with fold-up map covers, promotional text, and timetables.
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Image of a wood engraved map of a portion of the Midwestern United States showing railroad routes of the Chicago & North-Western Railway and connecting lines from Chicago, Illinois, westward, with promotional descriptions and timetables; map verso contains panels with fold-up map covers, additional timetables, and promotional text, with a vignette of a side elevation of a Pullman drawing room and sleeping car.
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Image of an eye-level landscape view of Niagara Falls from the rocky ledge of Prospect Point on the New York side of the Falls, with a woman, dog, and man looking over the gorge in the foreground and the waterfalls in the distance; image is centered with promotional description of railroad; verso contains text advertisement for New York Lithographing and Engraving Co.; decorative pink borders on recto and verso.
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