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
Visual Materials
Image of a poster with a central image of an elevated street view of the lawn, walkways, bandstand, covered fountain, and trees before the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad terminal on Coney Island in New York City, captioned "Grand Plaza and Promenade, terminus of the rail road on Coney Island," with a timetable, promotional descriptions, and seven additional vignettes of crowded scenes of people visiting Coney Island, including two top corner images of beach scenes; a top center image of the lawn, bandstand, and building captioned, “Grand view of 50 miles from observatory 300 feet high”, a lower center image of a steam locomotive with three open passenger cars, a bottom left image of the iron tower observatory, a bottom center image of the 1872 railroad station, captioned, “Brooklyn Depot, Ninth Avenue, 19th and 20th Streets, Greenwood”, with horse-drawn trolleys and carriage, and a bottom right image of a covered drinking fountain.
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Image of an advertisement for Harper's magazine October 1897 issue featuring a woman standing holding an umbrella in one hand wearing a feathered hat, short jacket, blouse, and long skirt.
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Image of a musician in a festive outfit with a horn around his neck, sitting on a table and raising a wine glass with his arm around a young woman who wears a purse that matches the man's bag, hat and boots; with a date sheet pasted on the lower left of the image for performances beginning on March 8, [1886], at Miner's Theatre in Brooklyn, New York; the poster advertises the German musical play "The Ratcatcher of Hamelin" (also titled "The Ratcatcher, or the Piper of Hamelin") adapted and produced in the United States in the mid 1880s by the Kiralfy Brothers.
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Image of an advertisement for Scribner's magazine October 1894 issue; woman stands in a dress with her coat over one arm reading a copy of Scribner's under her umbrella; large image of the cover of Scribner's in background.
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Image of an elevated landscape view of Norfolk, Virginia, showing people walking on a towpath in the foreground, and boats in the water, and the city in the distance, in a shield motif; vignettes of the seal of Virginia, and workers, including African Americans, farming and harvesting.
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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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