Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
A brief sketch of the aeronautical career of Professor Thaddeus S.C. Lowe, scientist and inventor
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of the Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia, during the American Civil War with Union and Confederate soldiers on foot engaged in a forest clearing surrounded by trees; dead and wounded soldiers in foreground; hot air balloon rising in distance; caption describing the battle in bottom margin.
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Visual Materials
Image of an advertisement for the Century Magazine November 1897 issue; Solomon August Andree and several other men check ropes for his hot air balloon expedition to take a hydrogen balloon straight over the North Pole; ship in background at left.
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Visual Materials
Image of a crowd standing next to a basket and hot air balloon lying on the Santa Monica Pier as part of a promotion for the Columbia Pictures 1975 movie "Breakout" in Santa Monica, California. A sign that reads "Breakout" is attached to the side of the hot air balloon basket and "Sinbad's cocktails and dinners," "Cocky Moon Snack Bar," and "Holiday Inn" signs are visible. The roof of the Hippodrome is seen in the distance.
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Manuscripts
Chiefly letters from George W. Lowe to his wife, Lizzie Palm Lowe, dealing with family affairs and describing everyday life of a Union soldier; accounts of the Battles of New Madrid, Island Number Ten, and Corinth. The collection also contains letters written to Lizzie Lowe by other family members and other soldiers. There are also two manuscript poems and a pencil map of New Madrid, Missouri.
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Manuscripts
Chiefly letters from George W. Lowe to his wife, Lizzie Palm Lowe, dealing with family affairs and describing everyday life of a Union soldier; accounts of the Battles of New Madrid (Island Number Ten) and Corinth. The collection also contains letters written to Lizzie Lowe by other family members and other soldiers. There are also two manuscript poems and a pencil map of New Madrid, Missouri.
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Visual Materials
Image of a Balloon Brand raisin label from the Hanford Raisin & Dried Fruit Packing Company of Hanford, California; a bunch of grapes stands in for helium balloons lifting a hot air balloon basket filled with people over a river landscape with sail boats and steamboats visible below.
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