Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Image of the Santa Monica Sea Food Company wholesale and retail store on the Santa Monica Municipal Pier in Santa Monica, California. Signs painted on the building read "Santa Monica Sea Food Co. Wholesale and Retail, All Kinds of Sea Food," and "Finest in Sea Food for your Eating Pleasure." The building next door reads "The Tides."
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Image of Linda Landi swinging a tennis racket at the Sea Breeze Beach Club in Santa Monica, California. Her bathing suit has a club logo that reads "Sea Breeze Beach Club."
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Image of people standing on the Santa Monica Municipal Pier in front of shops while peering over a railing at the ocean and beach in Santa Monica, California. Signs for stores on the pier include "Sea Food Grotto," "Chesapeake Cafe," "Fishing Tackle," and "ice cream bar."
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Image of Peggy Scheck and Kitty Leeds swinging tennis rackets at the Sea Breeze Beach Club in Santa Monica, California. Their bathing suits have club logos that read "Sea Breeze Beach Club."
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Image of the Hotel Windermere by the Sea on Ocean Avenue, in Santa Monica, California.
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This collection contains 269 stereographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins, dating from the 1860s to about the 1880s, that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California. The collection includes 1 stereograph from the Central Pacific Railroad series; 5 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Railroad Series; 110 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Coast series; and 150 stereographs from Watkins' New Series. The Watkins' Pacific Coast Series, created between 1861 and 1874, primarily depict locales in Northern California with many images of buildings in San Francisco, views of Yosemite and Mariposa County, Missions, and some mining operations including photographs of the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company in Nevada County, California. The Watkins' New Series stereographs, created between 1874 and 1890, consist of images of both Southern California and Northern California, in cities including San Francisco, Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, and San Gabriel. Among the Southern California residences and properties depicted include the Sunny Slope Ranch of L.J. Rose in San Gabriel, Willow Dale owned by N.C. Carter, and Lake Vineyard owned by B.D. Wilson. Some of the stereographs in Watkins' Pacific Coast Series include titles in the margins in Watkins' own hand (see Nos. 1033, 1135, 1146, 1153, and 1721).
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