Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Photograph made during the fiesta and parade. Appears to be a Native American man at rest outside the San Bernardino National Bank.
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View of fiesta with log building, brush tepee and bicycle. On a street in San Bernardino.
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This collection contains approximately 10,000 photographs, negatives and ephemera created or compiled by Grace Nicholson (1877-1948), a collector and dealer of Native American and Asian arts and crafts in Pasadena, California. The bulk of the collection dates from 1903 to the 1920s and includes photograph albums and individual photographs with views of Native Americans of the Northwest Coast, California, and the Southwest of North America; pictures documenting Nicholson's basket collecting trips primarily between 1902 and 1912; images of Nicholson's stores and residences in Pasadena, including the building of the "Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art" in the mid-1920s; and personal photographs of Nicholson, her family, friends, and associates. Nicholson's personal snapshots and photograph albums provide a valuable resource for studying Native American communities, particularly in Northern California, in the early 20th century. Many of the photographs depict daily life and include images of homes, community events, dances and rituals, families and children, and portraits. Most of these photographs were taken by Grace Nicholson or her assistant, Mr. Carroll S. Hartman, and are often accompanied by Nicholson's handwritten identifications.
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Los Angeles' streets were still dominated by the trolley car when Dave Redinger opened a private engineering practice early in 1914. This view of rush hour shows Los Angeles Railway trolley cars lined up on East Seventh Street, waiting their turn to cross the equally busy Main Street. All of these trolleys, and much of downtown Los Angeles, was receiving electricity from the new Big Creek power plants.
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Group portrait of men in front of a streetcar (or trolley) that says "The S.B.V. Traction Co." across top, which stands for the San Bernardino Valley Traction Company, a railway company. There is a label on the back of the photograph for "Baker Iron Works," but it is not clear if these are employees of that company.
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View of the California State Building at the corner of First Street and Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles, California, with the Hall of Records building behind it, and the Hall of Justice building visible in the background. Automobiles, a streetcar, and many overhead trolley wires are visible.
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