Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The life of Philidor, musician and chess-player
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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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Visual Materials
Portrait of French artist and photographer Antoine Claudet and unidentified sitter (in top hat) playing chess in Claudet's London studio.
photPF 1571
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Rare Books
471896
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Rare Books
329173
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Manuscripts
George Allen's "Life of Philidor" was the first book printed on vellum in the United States. This collection contains letters and printed material that were removed from an unknown volume by the Library in May 1939.
mssHM 13134-13178, HM 13901
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Visual Materials
The J. Allen Hawkins Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 3027 negatives and 3607 prints (both vintage prints and copy prints), 1924-1972, that depict commercial sites, residences, and other subjects in and around Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential, social, and cultural development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the middle years of the twentieth century. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century. Some of the early photographs may be attributable to Harold A. Parker.
photCL 330