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 an engraved map of part of the Southwestern United States from New Mexico to Mississippi, and north to Nebraska and Iowa, with railroad routes of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and related lines depicted; map is centered in a poster containing promotional descriptions and timetable of the Iron Mountain Route.
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Image of a poster with a wood-engraved map of the railroad route of the Frisco Line of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway, between St. Louis, Missouri, and Halstead, Kansas, centered, with promotional text about the line.
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Image of a poster advertising the Iron Mountain Route of the Missouri Pacific Railroad with a lithographed vignette in the upper right of three children in a room decorated with a Christmas tree, with one boy writing the names of three Christmas trains on a folded blackboard and an infant pretending to drive a locomotive made of furniture; second lithographed vignette in the middle left of a perspective view of a steam locomotive on tracks in a winter scene; background ornamented with sprig of holly.
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Image of a map of a portion of the middle United States showing both completed and proposed railroad lines including the projected line of the St. Louis and Memphis Railroad between Morley, Missouri, and Memphis, Tennessee.
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Image of a map of Texas and bordering states showing the route and connecting lines of the Texas & Pacific Railway, with an inset map in the upper right corner of most of the continental United States, Mexico, and Cuba, and an inset in the lower right corner of a black and white photograph captioned, “Harvest scene on line of the Texas & Pacific Railway in Texas,” with men on mule-driven farm equipment in a field; map verso contains panels with fold-up map covers, railroad timetables and promotional descriptions.
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Image of an aerial landscape view of St. Louis, Missouri, the Mississippi River, and surrounding rural areas with railroad lines running into the city; 15 numbered locations printed at bottom center; with top left corner vignette of the Eads Bridge as viewed from the river banks below, captioned, "View of bridge from East St. Louis", and top right corner vignette of two trains at a tunnel entrance with workers, captioned, "Entrance to tunnel from Union Depot"; map verso contains timetables and promotional descriptions for the St. Louis, Kansas City, and Northern Railway, and a map of the Northwestern United States from Illinois to California with railroad routes depicted; fold-up map.
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