Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
The Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 5157 glass plate negatives, film negatives, and panoramic negatives, 1889-1949, that depict commercial, residential and landscape sites in and around Pasadena and Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential and social development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the early years of the twentieth century. The collection is especially rich in images of residential architecture in Pasadena, Altadena, and San Marino; images of Lake Tahoe; depictions of, and activities at, the Raymond, Maryland, and Huntington Hotels in Pasadena; and the commercial, social and cultural landscapes of Pasadena. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century.
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A panoramic view of Troy Laundry at 761 South Fair Oaks, with 15 delivery trucks parked on the street. "Troy Laundry Co." is spelled out in plants on the grass to the left of the laundry. There are swastikas on the broad awnings shading the front windows.
photCL 402 (40077)
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Street view of the Dodsworth Building at 1 South Fair Oaks, at the southwest corner of Colorado and Fair Oaks. The businesses in the building include United Cigars and Columbia Outfitting Co. Numerous overhead wires for streetcars.
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Front of the Pasadena Laundry at 974 South Fair Oaks with a delivery truck with the business name written on the side.
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Street view of the four-story Dodsworth Building at 1 South Fair Oaks, on the southwest corner of Colorado and Fair Oaks. The retail space on the corner is occupied by Columbia Outfitting Co. Cars are parked on the streets, and a complicated web of cables for the streetcars is overhead.
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Front view of the Raymond Hotel at 1200 South Fair Oaks showing two golfers on a portion of golf link in the foreground.
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