Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The break-up
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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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Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of Gloria Molina, who was a Los Angeles County Supervisor of the First Supervisorial District from 1991 to 2014. This collection is mainly comprised of records created and accumulated during her years on the Board of Supervisors. These materials -- including correspondence, agenda, motions, reports, press clippings, notes, ephemera, site plans, photographs, audiovisual and electronic resources -- document a wide range of activities performed by Molina and her staff, such as project planning, legislation, lawsuits, redistricting, campaigning, and budget planning.
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Visual Materials
Image of the last British Royal Navy wood-hulled ship, the "Agamemnon" being dismantled off the coast of England near Greenwich.
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Visual Materials
The William H. Helfand Collection contains more than 7,000 European and American prints and ephemera relating to health professions including medical, dental, and mental wellness. The materials date from the 1490s to the early 21st century and contain many social and political cartoons that satirize health practices and practitioners. Noted illustrators represented include French artists Honore Daumier, Gustave Dore, J. J. Grandville, and Emile Vernier; British caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, and James Gillray; and the American cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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Visual Materials
A watercolor and ink drawing satirizing a Blue Stockings Club meeting turned violent with five pairs of women fighting while dressed in blue stockings and torn attire. The scene depicts women attacking each other with scalding water, a brass trivet, and pulling each other's hair while raising their fists. The women wrestling in the foreground are illustrated with exaggerated facial features and are partially nude as their garments and hair are disheveled during their fight. Details include three frightened cats leaping in reaction to the brawl while surrounded by falling furniture, spilling tea sets, and overturned chamber pots. Two bottles of alcohol are illustrated spilling on the floor, one is labeled "French Cream" and the other "Ratafia." In March 1815, the watercolor drawing was slightly altered and printed by publisher Thomas Tegg as hand-colored etchings titled Breaking up of the Blue Stocking Club.
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