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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
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Four of the men are identified in handwriting on a copy of this photograph in the Historical Society of Southern California photograph collection (photCL 400, box 36), by an unknown source: "Back row, left to right: William McKee, Charles Johnson, Alfred Robinson (?) and man seated, second from right: Robert Carlisle." Photographer's imprint on inside front cover: "Robert H. Vance, Premium Daguerrean Galleries, San Francisco, Sacramento & Marysville." Date based on years that Vance had galleries in these locations.
(photDAG 36)
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A daguerreotype containing the first group portrait taken of the entire staff of the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, sitting in the Japanese Garden; there are 201 sitters in the portrait.
photDAG 154
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Photographer: Robert Shlaer. View of 201 employees posed in the Japanese Garden, with elements of the garden visible. The collection file contains a typescript key identifying almost all of the sitters.
(photDAG 154 daguerreotype)
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Charles Lyman Strong (1826-1883) is third from left. He was superintendent of the Gould-Curry mine in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1861. Before that he was in San Francisco, where this photograph was made in the mid-1850s. Information from early catalog record for this image; source unknown.
(photDAG 56)
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