Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Street view of the Maryland Apartments at 80 North Euclid. It is a tall, multistory building with equally tall palm trees growing alongside.
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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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Manuscripts
Note written by Luke Swatland on cowhide, previously believed to be human skin. The note indicates it was written on the skin of a man scalped and killed by Indigenous peoples during a battle, and describes the death of other men and movement to Albany as a part of General John Sullivan's troops. The note is signed "Luke Swaatland of Wyoming. Sept. 13th 1779." Analysis performed by Dan Kirby Analytical Services in December 2015 concluded the note is written on cowhide.
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Street view of the First Trust Building at 587 East Colorado, at the corner of Madison and Colorado Streets. Large, multistory building with First National Bank on the ground floor in the corner. A hexagonal glass structure is on top of the building.
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Intersection of East Colorado and Fair Oaks looking East. Numerous cars and pedestrians crowd the streets. There is construction on one corner, and there is a complicated network of cables overhead for the streetcars.
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Street view of Henry Longfellow School on East Washington. The school is a large, multistory building with a flagpole and trees on the lawn.
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