Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Photo of a man riding a horse and a man riding a bull at a rodeo with onlookers.
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Visual Materials
Photographs of the American West, dating from the 1870s to the 1890s, collected by Carl S. Dentzel (1913-1980), director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California, including a disbound album of photographs of Alaska taken by A. L. Broadbent. These views show Revenue Cutter Service ships and officers; Alaskan natives; towns; scenery; the fur trade and mission schools. Other notable photographs in this collection include portraits of John C. Frémont, Harrison Gray Otis, and John A. Sutter; a series of Lake Tahoe card photographs; and views of early western settlers around the time of the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. The collection also depicts Alaskan native graves; missionaries; walrus hunting; whaling ships; totem poles; officers in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service; vacationers throughout California; the logging industry; Kingston, New Mexico; Greek Orthodox church buildings; the first grand jury in Nome, Alaska; James Gilchrist Swan; and a portrait of one of the collection's photographers, Alfred Lee Broadbent. Photographers who contributed to this collection include William C. Billington, Alfred Lee Broadbent, F. Davey, Edward De Groff, Charles D. Kirkland, D. S. Mitchell, C.H. Shaffner, Julius Ulke, and Raper James Waters.
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Manuscripts
Grace (Burke) Hubble as a girl, riding on horse "Pet" in a neighborhood of houses. Note in the hand of Grace (Burke) Hubble: "GH on Pet, about 1910."
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Visual Materials
A woman riding side-saddle on a mule in front of a horse-drawn buggy carrying more people travelling up a road.
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Visual Materials
Panoramic view of Pacific Palisades, California, showing open land and houses with a small community at left. At the intersection in foreground at right, a billboard reads “Hottentot Riding Academy” -- a horse ranch off Sunset Boulevard.
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Visual Materials
View of canoes, a sailboat, and rowboats on a lake in Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park) in Los Angeles, California, with people in a gazebo in a park, horse-drawn carriages, a streetlight, and large houses visible on the shore.
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