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
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Rare Books
Includes (selected items): book. "A Century of Passenger Trains: A Study of 100 Years of Passenger Service on the Denver & Rio Grande Railway, Its Heirs, Successors and Assigns" by Jackson Thode, published by Rocky Mountain Railroad Club. (260 p., 1972); Book. "Never on Wednesday, the first decade of the Rio Grande Zephyr" by Richard Loveman and Mel Patrick, published by PTJ Publishing (120 p.,1980).
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Visual Materials
Image of an eye-level landscape view of Niagara Falls from the rocky ledge of Prospect Point on the New York side of the Falls, with a woman, dog, and man looking over the gorge in the foreground and the waterfalls in the distance; image is centered with promotional description of railroad; verso contains text advertisement for New York Lithographing and Engraving Co.; decorative pink borders on recto and verso.
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Image of a map centered on the continents of North and South America showing the Great Rock Island railroad route of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad and related steamship lines to Europe and Asia, with a second map, above, of the railroad route from San Francisco, California, to Chicago, Illinois, and mileage statistics printed in right margin; map verso contains panels with fold-up map covers, promotional descriptions and timetables of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, with a vignette of a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River connecting Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa, and a vignette of the exterior of the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago.
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Image of a broadside with text advertising the routes of the New York and Erie Railroad; wood-engraved vignette of a steam locomotive, tender, and cars in a rural setting centered in the upper half of the poster and a wood-engraved vignette of a steamship centered in the lower half of the poster.
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Image of a wood-engraved vignette of a steam locomotive and tender labeled "Old Colony" on railroad tracks next to a dock with waiting passengers and a horse-drawn wagon, and a sailboat and steamboat, the Island Home, in the water, centered in a broadside with text promoting the Old Colony Railroad route to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, Massachusetts, with printed timetables and promotional text, and a bottom center wood-engraved map of New England with railroad routes.
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Image of an elevated landscape panoramic view of the Catskill Mountains in New York as viewed from Mount Hope, surrounded by six vignettes of different views and locations in the mountains including Horse-Shoe Bend, Pine Hill, Ulster County, Delaware County, and Belle Ayre Mountain and Pine Hill Station, showing tourists, railroad trains, farmers, a man sketching, and a hotel in the distance; captions below vignettes.
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