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 page of The New York Times newspaper of October 4, 1914, showing photographs of women modeling Parisian fashions; fashion details on recto include capes, wraps, and mantles with fur trim and jeweled headdresses or feathered hats; fashion details on verso include walking suits with fitted jacket bodices and long skirts.
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Image of a text-based advertisement for clothing, hats, caps, and furnishing goods at a store in New Bedford, Massachusetts, printed in the style of a theater broadside; advertised items include all colors of cassimere, coats, overcoats, doeskin pants, single and double breasted vests, white and colored shirts, silk bows, scarves, hosiery, and underwear.
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Image of two angels with wings blowing trumpets while one holds a thurible from a gold chain with smoke and a second burning incense censer stands on a pedestal; with a vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of carnival proprietor C. W. Parker at middle left of image; the poster advertises the carnival show "Creation."
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Image of a nighttime carnival scene with people enjoying fair rides and a fun house; spotlights shine up into the night sky in the background; the poster advertises the Fullerton Community Fair in Fullerton, California.
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Image of a carnival scene with fair rides, games and food booths sponsored by various service clubs and church groups; the poster advertises the Fullerton Community Fair in Fullerton, California.
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This collection contains more than 650 printed items that relate to circuses in the United States from the 1850s to the 1990s. The collection consists of advertising and promotional materials, business records, and illustrations produced for or pertaining to circuses, their tours and shows, staff and performers, acts and exhibits, and animals. Materials are arranged in three series: small-size prints and ephemera (11 x 14 inches or less); large-size prints and ephemera (more than 11 x 14 inches); and broadsides and handbills. The collection has 206 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographic posters containing brightly colored images of featured circus acts, performers, and animals that were typically posted outdoors in advance of the circus coming to town. Small-size items in the collection number more than 320 and are comprised mainly of advertising and promotion ephemera and business documents such as trade cards, programs and souvenir books, route cards, envelopes, tickets, songsters, and printed billheads and letterheads. The 130 broadsides, handbills, and related advertisements consist primarily of long, narrow broadsides printed on newspaper paper in black ink using letterpress type that advertised upcoming circus shows and were intended to be distributed by hand, left in stacks in public places, or posted on walls, fences, or in windows in advance of the circus's arrival in a town. This collection provides a resource for studying the history of the American circus and its impact on popular entertainment and advertising in the 19th and 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the items offer evidence of the development of printmaking techniques and trends, and of the artists, engraves, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creation of these prints.
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