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 pageant of Aladdin and his lamp put on by the Barnum & Bailey greatest show on earth featuring performers in Asian-inspired dress; Aladdin kneels before the princess at center; guards stand at left and right; huge crowds of people circle the area in background; pagodas visible in background.
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Manuscripts
No application. [Norwich, Apr. 4, 1810?] MS: second act marked Act 3rd. (Dated Apr. 6, 1810, in B.C.) J.P.C. in B.D.: Alladin, or the Wonderful Lamp, a Romantic Drama was licensed by Larpent for the Norwich Theatre on 4th. April 1810.
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Visual Materials
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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Visual Materials
Printer: Scott's Printing Office With woodcut image of a minstrel performer in blackface costume holding a bag labeled "Bruder Bones" for Horn Wells & Briggs' Ethiopian Serenaders
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Visual Materials
Image of umbrella box label with four panels with gold scrollwork borders; two panels feature a central star with clouds and a burst of rays radiating outward; left panel features a large image of Hercules with a club with a scene of cherubs under an umbrella below and a man and woman walking under an umbrella in a rainy park-like setting above; panel second from right features a celestial female goddess or angel-like figure with white robe and streaming hair surrounded by flowers, rays and cherubs with garlands and a pair of cherubs under an umbrella below.
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Visual Materials
Image of an outdoor scene near a rock quarry in Ireland with a young woman trying to fight off a man attacking her with a shovel while a man swinging from a tree limb attempts to rescue her, and a man stands on a cliff above near a windmill, with a lake in the background; the poster advertisers the Irish melodrama "Peep o' Day" written by Edmund Falconer, and based on a story by Irish writer John Banim, as performed by actor Mrs. D.P. Bowers (Elizabeth Crocker Bowers) at the New Chesnut Street Theatre (also spelled New Chestnut Street Theatre) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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