Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The chapbook : (a yearly miscellany)
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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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Rare Books
Nos. 6 and 18 consist of songs with piano accompaniment
37446
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Visual Materials
23 stereographic photographs of Los Angeles and Southern California consisting of views of downtown Los Angeles [no. 6] (Broadway and 2nd Street [no. 1, 1a], 1st Street and Broadway [no. 2], Main Street [no. 3], Sonoratown [no. 8]), Los Angeles residences [nos. 4, 5], churches [nos. 7, 11, 12, 13, 20], adobes [nos. 9, 10], Santa Monica beach [no. 14], gardens and fruit groves [nos. 17, 18, 19], the full moon through a telescope [nos. 15, 16], and "Cotton cushion scale" (title on verso) [no. 21].
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Visual Materials
[George's Plantation Smorgasbord & Mint Julip Room piano bar.] [with 6 variants, (plus 7 - 4x5 variants)]
photCL SCE 06 - 72403
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Visual Materials
A collection of four chapbooks and seventeen chapbook covers dating from approximately the 1890s to the 1910s with artwork illustrated by Mexican lithographer José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913). The materials were all printed for various publications produced by Mexican editor Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (1852-1917). Three of the four chapbooks are part of the same series and are titled: Galería Infantil del Teatro Los Novios; Galería Infantil del Teatro la Almoneda del Diablo; Galería del Teatro Infa[n]til Colección De Comedias para Niños ó Títeres Los Gendarmes. The three chapbooks in this series are printed in black ink on buff paper and include illustrated covers. The fourth chapbook is from the "Nueva Colección de Cuentos Patrioticos" series and is titled "La Gorra del Cuartel." The booklet includes hand-colored details of printed images throughout the interior pages. The chapbook covers in the collection are printed either in black ink or black-and-red ink on various colored papers. Images include satirical and traditional representations of Mexican plays, historical retellings, and comedic stories.
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Visual Materials
A collection of four chapbooks and seventeen chapbook covers dating from approximately the 1890s to the 1910s with artwork illustrated by Mexican lithographer José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913). The materials were all printed for various publications produced by Mexican editor Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (1852-1917). Three of the four chapbooks are part of the same series and are titled: Galería Infantil del Teatro Los Novios; Galería Infantil del Teatro la Almoneda del Diablo; Galería del Teatro Infa[n]til Colección De Comedias para Niños ó Títeres Los Gendarmes. The three chapbooks in this series are printed in black ink on buff paper and include illustrated covers. The fourth chapbook is from the "Nueva Colección de Cuentos Patrioticos" series and is titled "La Gorra del Cuartel." The booklet includes hand-colored details of printed images throughout the interior pages. The chapbook covers in the collection are printed either in black ink or black-and-red ink on various colored papers. Images include satirical and traditional representations of Mexican plays, historical retellings, and comedic stories.
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Manuscripts
Virginia and Truckee Railroad, No. 1, effective July 11, 1870 in facsimile. Nos. 18, 21, 23, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39 and 41 through 59. No. 18 was effective April 24, 1881 and No. 59 was effective May 9, 1905. Virginia and Truckee Railway. Nos. 60 through 92. No. 60 was effective November 18, 1905 and No. 92 was effective January 28, 1923. No. 62 effective August 1, 1906 first shows the line to Minden. Supplements Nos. 3, 4, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14 and 18 to Time Table No. 94. For approximately the last twenty-five years of the railroad no new time tables were promulgated, but changes were made by supplements to Time Table No. 94, which as supplemented, was in effect at the date of abandonment May 31, 1950. Supplement No. 3 was effective September 30, 1926 and Supplement No. 18 was effective December 1, 1948.
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