Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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A small album containing 14 carte de visite-size photographs of street vendors in Mexico. The first page has a handwritten title: "Street Peddlars in Mexican Towns / A collection of 13 Old Photographs 1850 to 1860-," and the following pages have mounted albumen photographs with handwritten captions. Most portraits were taken in a studio, and they include both men and women carrying large amounts of goods or other items related to their work. Image captions are: Charcoal seller; Selling lottery tickets on Sunday; Indian selling baskets (male); Indian pottery seller; Palm leaf peddler; Birdcage peddler; Charcoal man; Indian with band of wood, in the village of Batopela [i.e. Batopilas, Chihuahua]; Indian selling wooden trays; Cargadora; Water carrier; Selling baskets; Indian peddling turkeys; Indian selling mats.
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A man stands on a dock next to a large cart of vegetables, with more vegetables sitting on the dock around him. Behind him is a sailing ship.
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Image of a man carrying an oversized root vegetable as an elderly woman and two children look on in shock and amazement in an advertisement for Crosman Brothers of Rochester, New York.
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Three men with baskets and a winnowing fan at work in a field.
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Image of an advertisement for Scribner's magazine October 1895 issue featuring a Chinese man standing on the shore wearing traditional garb and carrying a wood lunch box and an umbrella over one shoulder; red dragon at left; large ship sailing on rough seas in background at left.
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Several men work in a vineyard, some carrying wooden baskets on their shoulders, one on horseback, and two standing on a card full of wooden crates.
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