Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of a group of people walking out of the doorway to the frontispiece of the California Building at Balboa Park in San Diego, California.
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Date built: ca. 1915 Architect: Goodhue, Bertram Description: Photographs of exterior of buildings for Pan-California Exposition in Balboa Park. Features tower of the Spanish-Revival style California building.
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Rare Books
Panama and California Exposition site is within existing Balboa Park. "Showing Blocks, Streets, Car Lines, Bulkhead Line, Land reclaimed by City, Exposition Site, Wharves, House numbering and Balboa Park." Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Blue line print.
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View of a building with a sign that says "Hospital" over the door on Sixth Street on the corner with Olive Street in Los Angeles, California, with a palm tree in the front yard. Two men sit with a horse and wagon on the street and a woman is walking down the sidewalk. There is a small street sign on the pole at left that says "Olive Street."
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Rare Books
A birds-eye view of San Diego showing the Panama-California Exposition of 1915 in Balboa Park. Vignettes: Four commercial buildings. MS note: 299096. Prime meridian: GM. Projection: Birds-eye view. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Visual Materials
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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