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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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View of workers, cargo ship and rolls of newsprint paper at a shipping dock in the Port of Los Angeles.
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Image of African American men sitting on a dock along a levee dancing, singing, playing music on a banjo, and playing cards in the foreground with a bustling port in the background showing horse-drawn wagons, cargo in barrels, crates, and bales being unloaded from steamboats lined up along the Mississippi River, including ones presumably named "Jacob Strader" and "Memphis"; some warehouses appear to say "St. Paul."
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Image of the Southern Pacific Railroad Wharf, also known as the Long Wharf at the Port of Los Angeles, with a ship docked at the end, in Santa Monica, California. A locomotive is seen leaving the wharf and heading back to the shore.
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Image of a family with children at a camp on the beach at Port Los Angeles near Santa Monica in present-day Pacific Palisades, California.
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Image of the steamship Italy departing from port; a large crowd of people stand on the dock waving with hats or handkerchiefs in hand, including famous figures like P. T. Barnum and "Buffalo Bill" Cody; passengers and a band playing music visible on deck; city visible on shore in background.
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Image of a train on the Southern Pacific Long Wharf at the Port Los Angeles (later part of Pacific Palisades) north of Santa Monica, California.
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