Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
View of the exterior of the wooden Compton Grain and Milling Company building in Compton, California, with men standing at front with a team of horses (photPF 24895) and a view of the interior of the building with two men standing amid wooden beams, grain sacks, and machinery (photPF 24896).
photPF 24895-24896
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A mule team pulling a wagon loaded with lumber. Lumber stacked on the ground in foreground.
photCL Pierce 06485
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A 20 mule team pulling two wagons of borax with three riders on the wagons.
photCL Pierce 06565
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Image of a large group of farmers with horses and agricultural machinery working on the Cooper brothers' farm in Cooperstown, North Dakota, in an advertisement for Deering harvester machines; deer head with antlers in a large "G" with landscape backdrop at top center; sheaves of grain in circular frames in all four corners; decorative grain border.
priJLC_AGR_001779
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Team of 6 horses pulling a huge cason. With 34 negs - No ID on any except that the container said: "Y.P.Co."
photCL SCE 04 - 00764u
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Rare Books
Notes on right side describe the various routes and when they were used. "About this map... The background map was created for use in a promotional brochure for the radio program 'Death Valley Days' in 1931. Comments by Ed Stiles from Oral History of Ed Stiles. The photograph of the Twenty Mule Team on the bottom was staged and shot on Coyote Lake near Borate in 1892. It became the official Borax trademark photograph for more than 40 years and appeared on all Twenty Mule Team products." Presented to the Huntington Library by Mr. Ted Faye, March 1999. Vignette: Staged photo of 20 mule team Prime meridian: GM. Relief: pictorial & hachures. Projection: Birds-eye view. Printing Process: Lithography.
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