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 an outdoor scene with caricatures of black firefighters pulling a hook and ladder truck with hand buckets that itself carries a manual fire engine pulled by additional firemen, towards a fire at a dilapidated cabin labeled "Hotel D'Afrique" with African American guests in their pajamas fleeing the burning building and running towards a lake; individual caricatures include a man drinking liquor from a bottle, guests escaping from a tree, a man with a banjo, a woman with the words "El Mardi" on her nightdress, men carrying a chicken, pig and stove, men trying to pull a mule while one wields a baseball bat, and a dog attached to a wooden barrel; a sign above the hotel door reads "Table D'Hote" and "Not responsible for money and jewels not left in the safe" and the fire truck has the label "Manufactured by Rumsey & Co. Ltd Seneca Falls New York."
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Visual Materials
Image of a blank stock firefighter's membership certificate with surrounding vignettes of a firefighter returning a rescued baby to its mother; a female nurse tending to a wounded firefighter; a firefighter with a speaking trumpet; firemen in a city street at night before a burning building with steam fire engines and hoses; a firefighter pulling a fire engine; and firefighters aiming a house towards flames; certificate decorated with images of firefighting equipment including fire hats, speaking trumpets, axes, bells, lanterns, preventers, ladders, buckets, censers, fire hydrants, and fire hoses.
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Visual Materials
Image of a central image of a steam fire engine with two firefighters being drawn by two horses through a city street with a burning building in the background and a fire hydrant in the foreground; with seven vignettes consisting of five firefighting vehicles, a bundle of firefighting accessories including a ladder, hook, pick, lantern, speaking trumpet, and fireman's hat labeled "8", and an elevated view of the exterior of the Button Fire Engine Co. factory buildings in Waterford, New York, with someone aiming a stream of water from a hose over the roof of a building.
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Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam fire engine labeled "Silsby" that is decorated with a small American Eagle on the head light; there is a small vignette in the bottom center margin of an elevated view of the Island Works factory buildings of the Silsby Manufacturing Company in Seneca Falls, New York.
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Image of Columbia with a large American flag at the center of an advertisement for Columbia Fire Insurance Co. of New York City; images of storefronts on a commercial street on a normal day at left and with a fire engine and firefighters fighting flames at right.
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Image of a horse-drawn fire engine and firefighters racing to the scene of a raging fire at a drugstore, with police holding back onlookers; the poster advertises the fire-disaster show "Fighting the Flames" performed for audiences at amusement parks.
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