Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Image of the Southern Pacific railway station and grounds with an "SP" topiary arrangement in center in Santa Monica, California, near the Arcadia Hotel. Freight railroad cars in the foreground have lettering that reads "Central Pacific Ogden" and "S.P 72479," and a passenger train is visible in the background.
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Image of the Southern Pacific Santa Monica Station as seen from the eastern side of the Arcadia Hotel in Santa Monica, California, with houses in the distance. People are seen walking around the station with trains waiting on the tracks and a trestle and bridge are seen at left. Horse-drawn trolleys and carriages are visible as well as a sign on a building that advertises "meals for 25 cents." A building in the center distance has the sign "Mermaid Sample Rooms"
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Image of the Santa Monica Hotel on Ocean Avenue with railroad tracks visible in the foreground in Santa Monica, California. A sign that reads "sea shells" is painted on a building at right.
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Early photographs of Santa Monica, showing the Santa Monica Hotel with railroad tracks visible in the foreground; the wharf and railroad cars on tracks at the end; landscape views showing the beach, canyon, bathers, bath house, and bluff. All are card photographs imprinted "From Watkins' Yosemite art gallery..." One unrelated photograph (photPF 600) of a drinking fountain in Alum Rock Park, San Jose, also in this folder.
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Image of Locomotive No. 1 and passenger cars of the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad on train tracks next to the railroad's terminal at Fifth Street and San Pedro Street in Los Angeles, California.
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Elevated view of houses along the beach in Santa Monica, California, looking south from the bluffs of Palisades Park, with railroad tracks and the Palisades Beach Road (part of the Roosevelt Highway, later Pacific Coast Highway), below, and the Santa Monica Pier and Ocean Park Pier visible in the distance. The mansion beach house of actress Marion Davies (which later became the Ocean House, or Oceanhouse hotel, and Sand and Sea Beach Club) is visible with multiple fireplaces in the foreground.
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