Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Photo of old native man standing beside an adobe building with a walking stick.
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A collection of glass plate and film negatives by amateur photographer and Los Angeles real estate broker George P. Thresher focusing on the American Southwest and Native Americans of the region, particularly of Arizona, and the Gila River crossing area, from ca. 1898 to 1910. The majority of the Thresher Collection contains images of towns and sites in Arizona, including Phoenix, Mission San Xavier del Bac, Montezuma Castle, Peach Springs, and adobe ruins. Photographs of Texas are well represented in the collection, including many views of Missions San Concepcion, San Antonio de Valero (the Alamo), San Francisco de la Espada, and Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo. There are also images of Colorado (Garden of the Gods, Pike's Peak, and Castle Rock), New Mexico (Santa Fe, Tesuque, and possibly Laguna), and unidentified pueblos. Notable portraits from California are of Victoriano, chief of the Soboba Indians, and his unnamed third wife. There is a separate and very interesting sequence of images depicting the Mount Beauty Mine and its operations in San Diego County, California. A small assortment of lantern slides is at the end of the collection showing Indians of Arizona, California, and New Mexico.
photCL 449
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Prints, advertising; Image of immigrants arriving at a dock in the New York Harbor with a rainbow, a ship, the Manhattan skyline, and Statue of Liberty in the distance; a young man wearing a red cap guides an older woman holding a basket of food in the foreground; the poster's text, directed to Italian immigrants, promotes the conservation of food as part of the war effort in the United States during World War I.
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View of two men in a field, with one man wearing a fur hat and holding an object. The other man has a tomahawk next to him.
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Adobe buildings are in background, as well as what appear to be granaries made of wood.
photPF 25747
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Image of an eye-level close-up perspective view of a steam locomotive, tender, and labeled mail cars passing on a track before a mother, two children, dog, and basket of fruit in the foreground, with a man throwing a mail bag from a train car to a man on the ground; the steam locomotive has a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, a cab labeled "J.H. Devereux," and the number "317" written on the locomotive; a smaller upper image of an eye-level landscape view depicting an 18th century rural scene with a man on horseback on a plank road in the foreground, and a log cabin and family behind with a man chopping wood, a woman, child, and a boy drinking water from a trough.
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