Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Ye Centennial : A quire booke for folke old and younge
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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
Visual Materials
One manufacturer's advertisement/drawing book entitled Young Folks' Drawing Book, published by Billings, Clapp & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1886. This advertisement/drawing book promotes both Nichol's Bark & Iron and encourages drawing practice. It is 16 unnumbered pages in length, and contains manufacturer's advertisements, testimonials (dated 1884-1886), and illustrations for copying. Each of the illustrations are printed against a numbered and lettered grid; a blank grid is printed on the facing page for copying. The front and back covers feature chromolithograph illustrations; on the front cover is an image of children drawing and playing, on the back, a young boy sits wearing a red tam and sash, with the tam bearing the name of "Nichol's Bark & Iron." None of the illustrations within the booklet have been copied. "Trautmann Bailey & Blampey, N.Y." (chromolithography) is printed at the bottom of the front cover.
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Visual Materials
Image of "Ye Great Centennial,” a four-page special edition newspaper published by the "Centennial Art Journal," for the United States Centennial Exhibition held in 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with an engraving in the masthead of an image of Uncle Sam standing before Independence Hall with the United States Capitol Building in the distance, and surrounded by historic scenes of the American Revolutionary War including ships in Boston Harbor, General George Washington crossing the Delaware River with troops in a boat, and soldiers in battle, with the years "1776" and 1876" at the top left and right; the newspaper’s text includes advertisements for companies, articles about American history and the origins of American symbols and traditions, and historic images of "William Penn's Seal & Signature to the Pennsylvania Charter with the Witnesses" (page 1); an image of a cream pot and a handwritten facsimile of an “Epitaph written 1827” by Benjamin Franklin captioned “Cream Pot Presented to Henry Hill by Dr. Franklin” (page 2); a handwritten facsimile of “The Star-spangled banner, in the hand writing of the Author” (page 3); head-and-shoulder portraits of British King George III and British Revolutionary War General Thomas Gage (on page 3); a facsimile of the masthead of the October 31, 1765, issue of the “Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser” (page 4); and the exteriors of “The House in Which Benj. Franklin was born Milk Street House, Boston” (page 4), and the “Burial Place of Benj. Franklin S.E. Cor. Of 5th & Arch St. Philada” (page 4).
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