Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Flora of Pasadena and vicinity
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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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Visual Materials
The Lukens Collection consists of 213 glass plate negatives and 242 film negatives created by Theodore Lukens, 1882-1903 and undated, that depict scenes in and around Los Angeles County, central California, and the Southwest.
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Visual Materials
A collection of approximately 1,500 photographs and various ephemera and publications of California missions, collected by Southern California educator Connie Rothstein, with an emphasis on the San Gabriel Mission, the history of the city of San Gabriel, and the production of "The Mission Play" by John Steven McGroarty. The collection also includes late-19th and early-20th century photographs of Los Angeles and Southern California, and postcards and ephemera related to the Southern California region. Notable in the collection are 391 stereographs of missions and Los Angeles, including some by photographers William Godfrey and H. T. Payne, A. C. Varela, and Carleton Watkins. All of the California Missions are represented in the collection, plus the "sub-missions" or Asistencias of California. The mission photographs include many unusual views and details, and are a mixture of snapshots made by tourists and commercial photographs. There are many views in and around Southern California, most dating from 1880s-1920s, by various photographers. Specific topics emphasized in and around Los Angeles are: Olvera Street, Chinatown, La Fiesta de Los Angeles celebration; and the Mount Lowe Railway. There are many cabinet cards and stereographs, and six large panoramic photographs of the Los Angeles area. The ephemera include hundreds of postcards and photographic postcards, scrapbooks, and many small publications on the history of the missions and California, as well as ephemera related to "The Mission Play." Other topics in the collection are: photographs and ephemera of Monterey, California; Oregon and the Columbia River Highway; and a group of photographs of cowboys and Western culture (mid-20th century).
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Rare Books
A large rolled and varnished map of Pasadena, Linda Vista tracts to the west, San Gabriel Blvd. to the east, Sierra Madre Mountains to the north, Pine St. (S0. Pasadena) to the south. Concentric half mile circles from Colorado & Fair Oaks. Short lived Marceline cut-off of California Central Rail line shown. City limits appear to extend into parts of present day South Pasadena (incorporated the next year). An index to this map can be found in Huntington Folios, case L-2 under the same number. "Compiled from Records and other authentic sources by James H. Campbell and Jesse O. Marsh 1887" "Copyright 1887 by Campbell & Marsh." Varnished, hard to photograph.. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: 153015 Sticker: Pasadena.
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