Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
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

Visual Materials
Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, tender, and sign on the smokebox that reads "Manchester N.H. / No.150. 1854."
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Visual Materials
Image of an elevated landscape view of the town of Manchester, New Hampshire, and the Merrimack River from a distant hillside showing a man and woman riding horses and people having a picnic in the foreground; locations printed in margin.
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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 an elevated landscape view of the town of Manchester, New Hampshire, depicting a firemen’s muster with a large crowd of spectators and firefighters with hand-pump manual fire engines gathered around the pond in Merrimack Square; a fire hose competition is visible at back left with a stream of water being shot in the air from a fire hose next to a wooden measuring pole; being shot from a fire hose at back left as part of a contest; some of the fire engines have labels including “2”, “Excelsior 3 Bangor” “Protector No. 3” “Gen Worth” “Torrent” and some the firefighters wear belts with labels including “Deluge” “Protector” “Lawrence” “[So]uth Reading” and “Alert”; the buildings visible in the background have the signs “Books” “Shirt Manufactory” “Museum” “C. Spencer & [Son Hard]ware” “B.L. Bartlett” “Eating House” and “Rowle & Co.” and the church is labeled ““Bidwell Glunn’s[?] Company at 3 [? o’clock] 15”; the scene also includes trees, American flags, dogs, women in hoop skirts, and children.
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Visual Materials
Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, tender, and labels on the tender and cab that read "Abbott Lawrence," a label on the base of the steam dome for "Lawrence Machine Shop," and the label "No. 97" on the front cylinder; a small African American man stands atop the locomotive's front frame holding a rail; with two upper corner vignettes of elevated views of factory buildings in a rural setting titled "Rear view of works" and "Front view of works."
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Visual Materials
Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, an engineer in the cab, the label "Cov. [sic] Williamson" on the boiler, the label "Danforth Cooke & Co. / Paterson N.J." on the cylinder, the label "Danforth Cooke & Co. Paterson NJ" on the driving wheel hubcaps, and a portrait of a man on the head light, presumably intended to represent New Jersey Governor Isaac Halstead Williamson (1767-1844).
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