Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Prints, advertising; Image of the allegorical female figure of Marianne (symbol of France) wearing a French Revolution-inspired skirted military costume with bicorne cocked hat marching and beating a drum on an inspirational French World War I poster.
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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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Rare Books
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Rare Books
A "conundrum fan," featuring scrolls with riddles in English and French, harp, branches, cup and squirrel on small-scale decorative background; decorative border with swags across top; lettercases with days of week to sides; stipple engraved medallion of owl ("Grave Wisdom") reading book ("Logic"), with other books behind.
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Manuscripts
No application. [Norwich, Nov. 5, 1814?] MS: dated by Larpent.
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