Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of a souvenir studio portrait of men standing in front of a painted beach backdrop and holding signs reads "Santa Monica Beach" and "Just for fun" in Santa Monica, California, with props that include alcohol bottles, cigar, a small sombrero, sand pail, and shovel.
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Visual Materials
Image of a political cartoon illustrating the United States presidential election campaign of 1848; candidates (left to right) Martin Van Buren, John Hale, Lewis Cass, and Zachary Taylor fish from opposing banks of a river filled with fish bearing the names of the states; on a firm rock marked "Constitution," stands Taylor at right with fish swarming about his line, most of them hooked on its multiple leaders, "Ohio" being prominent in the center; it rains on the left bank (in contrast to Taylor's sunny bank), where the other candidates stand; directly across from Taylor is Free Soil candidate Martin Van Buren, standing on "Free Soil" and fishing with a pole whose line has broken and only the fish "New York" swims with his broken tackle toward Taylor's line; behind Van Buren is a cabbage patch; further upstream stand Democrat Lewis Cass and Liberty party candidate John Hale, who commiserate on their poor catch.
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Visual Materials
Image of a souvenir studio portrait of three men standing in front of a painted beach backdrop in Santa Monica, California, including an old man and two men with mustaches.
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Rare Books
"Now, at age 31, after fifteen years of working as a commercial fisherman, my childhood notions of the fishing life have been replaced with a reality that is less leisurely than I had imagined, but as rewarding as I had hoped. I began traveling seasonally to Alaska for fishing work as a teenager, and ended up working five summers as a salmon gillnetter in Bristol Bay and Cook Inlet. During that time, I was also studying photography in college. In 2002, with a degree in my pocket, I began looking for a way to merge the fishing and photography sides of my life. I wanted to find a way to use photography to share my commercial fishing experiences with people who perhaps never thought much about where that fish on their plate came from"--From introduction.
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