Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
Shares recipes and menus for special Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's meals, and includes advice on parties, table decorations, gifts, and holiday ideas.
640431
Visual Materials
One scrapbook entitled Scrap Book, compiler not named, ca. 1905. The scrapbook is within a stamped and embossed brown cloth binding; the title is stamped on the spine. The binding is decorated with a black floral design and pattern which surrounds a round, gold and silver embossed floral scene in the center of the front cover. The scrapbook is 68 unnumbered pages in length, and contains images both in black and white and in color -- some are chromolithographs. The images include those from newspapers, magazines, reproductions of paintings, photographs and other art works. Among the images are landscapes, seascapes, people, animals, greeting cards and architecture. Many of the images within the scrapbook are dated between 1900 and 1905. Mounted to the front pastedown is a chromolithograph chart entitled "Color-Types of the Races of Men, British Association Scale" which labels 10 skin colors and the nationality of men associated with such skin colors. For example: Pale White is labeled for "American"; Brownish-White is labeled for "Italian"; Dark Yellow-Brown is labeled for "Malay"; Copper Colored is labeled for "American Indian"; and Coal-Black is labeled for "South African." "6.00" (price) is written in ms. in the upper left-hand corner of the front flyleaf. "2437" is stamped in black ink in the bottom left-hand corner of the rear pastedown.
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Rare Books
Sample book containing examples on leather and paper of: type ornaments, stamps, rolls, fillets, personalized stamps, stamping frames in various sizes, die samples and other binding decorations. Various ink colors and gilt are shown. The final two pages contain samples of the Emery Record Preserving Company book labels and printed advertisements.
647052
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Visual Materials
This subseries includes greeting cards, scrap material, devotional images and scapulars, mourning and memorial cards, dance cards, tickets, programs, correspondence, and other ephemera. A majority of the items pertain to Christmas, Easter, New Year's Eve, Jewish New Year, birthdays, Leap Year, and other holidays.
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Manuscripts
Manuscript sample book containing about 1,200 samples of various kind of dyed wool and felt produced by the Christoffel Dyeing Company. It is signed by Carl Ludwig Christoffel on the inside endpaper with the date 1822, November 1 (although the manuscript is actually dated 1822, November - 1826, April). This sample book contains 467 samples of the finished dyed wools and felts, along with two to four additional samples of unfinished fabrics for each of the finished samples. Each of the 467 finished samples is accompanied by a recipe in manuscript for the dye which was employed. The text is in German.
mssHM 69384
Visual Materials
Six sample jars of relief paint; three are labeled Reliefo: A Relief Paint for Decoration, and three are labeled Prang Reliefo, all manufactured by the American Crayon Co., Sandusky, Ohio and New York, ca. 1925. The first three jars are made of porcelain, the second three of glass. The colors within this group are: natural, orange, blue, natural, orange, and turquoise blue. Directions for use are printed on the paper labels on the jars. The three porcelain jars bear an additional label reading: "Sample Jar. 1/2 regular size."
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