Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
A view of a black horse and a white horse hooked to a small fire truck with a driver and a fireman holding on behind.
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Visual Materials
Image of a side view of a parade float drawn by four horses carrying a driver, three firefighters, with one fireman holding the hose pipe, a banner with an image of American Revolutionary War General Lafayette in military costume on a horse with the label "Lafayette October 21 1781" on a ribbon held in the mouth of an eagle, and a manual fire engine labeled "Lafayette 7" on the platform; the image depicts a float in the Grand Canal Celebration for the opening of the Erie Canal in New York City on November 4, 1825.
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Visual Materials
Image of a firefighter's membership certificate from the Cambridge Fire Department of Cambridge, Massachusetts, made out in manuscript to William T. King and dated August 13, 1879, with surrounding vignettes of a hook and ladder truck with a driver being drawn by two horses; a fire hose carriage with a driver being drawn by a horse; two side views of steam fire engines attached to a fire hydrant; and the rubble and ruins of buildings during a fire; the certificate and vignettes are bordered by utility poles and fire hoses.
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Visual Materials
Image of a side view of a parade float drawn by four horses with a driver, two firefighters, including one with an ax and the other the pipe, and a hand-pump manual fire engine labeled "Washington 20" on the platform; the image depicts a float in the Grand Canal Celebration celebrating the opening of the Erie Canal in New York City on November 4, 1825.
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Visual Materials
Image of a side view of a steam fire engine, with a driver and two horses, and seven firefighters, some wearing hats labeled "S F E" and holding fire hoses, standing around the vehicle outdoors; the engine's cylinder is labeled "Amoskeag" and has hoses attached including one labeled "Boyd's Patent Hose."
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Visual Materials
Image of a firefighter's exempt membership certificate from the Owego Fire Department of Owego, New York, made out in manuscript to C. G. Carter of the Ahwaga Hose Company and dated October 1896, with surrounding vignettes of fire equipment including a hose carriage; a manual fire engine labeled "1862"; a hook and ladder truck with hand buckets labeled "Defiance"; a steam fire engine; two fire hydrants; and a bottom image of an eye-level landscape view of the Tioga County Courthouse building in Owego with a gazebo, trees, and park around it; the certificate has an embossed gold seal of the Tioga County Fire Department.
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