Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of the exterior of the American Legion Post No. 43 building at 2035 Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California, as seen from across the street, with American flags and a Howitzer cannon in front.
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Manuscripts
Handwritten ledger recording the early activities of the American Legion Auxiliary, Los Angeles Post #8, from the time of its founding in 1920 until 1948. Includes member rosters, letters, applications, certificates, copies of constitution and articles, annual reports, historian's reports, and historian's questionnaires (both blank and filled in).
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Visual Materials
Image of a girl with a gown and a star hat, presumably representing Columbia, standing in a model of a battlefield for the American Legion float at the Ocean Park Baby Parade in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California. There is a sign hanging on the front of the float that reads "Venice of America Post 177 American Legion." The float has toy army figurines and gravestones that read:"Unknown soldiers" and "to the Gold Star Mothers." The float to the left has the sign "Peter Peter."
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Visual Materials
A panoramic view of celebrations for the American Legion picnic in Avalon, on Santa Catalina Island. A crowd of a couple hundred people are gathered around an open area in the street. A baseball team and a band are sitting in the middle, directly in front of the crowd, and many of the older men and women are wearing American Legion hats. Most of the shops and stores behind the crowds are decorated with American flags.
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Visual Materials
Image of three members of the American Legion City Hall Post 387 and a dog in the bed of pickup truck bed, presumably decorated as a parade float, containing a boat labeled the "Honey Boat" and gas masks with a sign reading "it Took A Legionaire to do it, submarine fleet of City Hall Post, The Sewer Boat that made hazardous inspection thru Los Angeles Sewer, actual equipment used."
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Visual Materials
Street view of the United States Post Office Hollywood Station Art Deco building at 1615 Wilcox Avenue on the corner of Selma Avenue in Hollywood, California.
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