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.
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Manuscripts
8 items: samples of flyers announcing Thanksgiving or Christmas meals in the employee cafeteria, ca. 1980s; invitation to dedication of Employee Center (1966); original of Among Ourselves "Employee Center Issue," 9/14/1966;, AO article, 10/1966, "Employee Center Opening Hailed"; etc.
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Visual Materials
Three price lists: one (and its duplicate) for art reproductions by the George P. Brown & Co., Beverly, Massachusetts, ca. 1924. They are entitled Brown's Famous Pictures for February, March and April and Brown's Famous Bible Pictures. The former was issued as a double-sided single sheet; the latter as a 6-page price list. All three items were laid in a Brown & Co. Catalog, HEH RB #603406. The two single-sheet price lists are illustrated with a single row of images across each side of the leaf. Below the title and images reproduction cards are listed for sale and grouped by categories, for example: Washington Pictures, Dickens Pictures, Lincoln Picture; Thanksgiving and Christmas Pictures. Brown's Famous Bible Pictures is illustrated with a single image on the first page. This publisher's price list also groups images by category: 'The Life of Christ'; 'Old Testament Pictures'; 'Christmas Pictures'; 'Easter Pictures'; 'Madonnas'; 'Miniature Bible Pictures'. An ink stamp indicated a price change. "May 1924" is written in ms., in pencil, on the first page of this list.
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Manuscripts
Correspondence and business records Archelaus Hughes. Included are rentals, leases, titles, and building contracts of real estate in Richmond, adjacent to the James River Canal, and surveys and deeds for property in Kent and Henrico Conties. There are a few personal letters, including ones discussing the trial of Aaron Burr (1807) and Fourth of July (1813), and a letter from John Clopton (1756-1816) about political and congressional news (1810)
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Christmastime is the author's warm and humorous riff on the joys and foibles of our annual special season: the happy satisfaction of picking the right gifts for loved ones, and realizing Christmas morning that you forgot to label the wrapped gifts; trimming the Christmas tree, and spending the time to cook and prepare homemade cookies and pudding for the moments of sharing with friends and family.
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Visual Materials
First delivery of electric power to the booming mining camps of Tonopah and Goldfield was in October, 1905. The following Fourth of July, miners and citizens enthusiastically celebrated the arrival of the electric age with a horse drawn float, shown here in front of the power company's Tonopah office. Pg. 68
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