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 six vignettes of theatrical scenes and characters consisting of a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman, captioned "Hazel," at top left; a parlor scene with an older man sleepwalking past a kneeling young woman captioned, "Seen & Unseen," at center left; a man with his arms folded, captioned "Squire Rodney," at lower left; a couple standing and embracing with the man smoking two cigarettes, captioned "May all our sorrows end like this 'in smoke,'" at lower left; a young man sitting and playing a penny whistle, captioned "Met," at bottom left; and a young woman wearing an apron and standing with a young man, with a basket of laundry and drying linens on racks before a fireplace, captioned "Dolly's Surprise," at bottom right; the poster advertises the comedy drama "Hazel Kirke" by Steele Mackaye.
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Image of a central image of eight musicians, in blackface, sitting in a row and playing musical instruments including banjoes, a violin, a guitar, and a tambourine, surrounded by vignettes of the Buckley Serenaders consisting of images of their performances in theaters before full audiences, captioned "As they appeared at the Drury Lane, London," "As they appeared in Mexico," an image of the troupe traveling through the California wilderness on horseback captioned, "As they Appeared in California," head-and-shoulders portraits of James Buckley, Richard Buckley, George Buckley, and Frederick Buckley in formal dress, and four smaller vignettes of the minstrels performing in costume; decorated with an ornate floral borders with musical instruments and two black cherubs.
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Image of five character vignettes consisting of two male and two female musicians, in Spanish costumes, standing in a row playing mandolins; head-and-shoulder portraits of a whiteface clown and a hobo captioned "The Cherubs," a portrait of a man with a cane and long mustache and a woman wearing a bonnet captioned "Symantha and Algernon"; an old man in an historical costume patting a boy with an ax on the head captioned "The Little Hatchet"; and a pirate with a knife moving towards a girl in a nightgown with her arms raised captioned "The Amateur Villain and Maiden"; with vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of Ray L. Royce, at upper right, and Web Lansing, at lower left, and a decorative border; the poster advertises the musical-comedy show "Basket of Chips" performed by Royce and Lansing's company.
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Image of a fist fight between two men, with two women and another man watching, taking place at night in Madison Square Park in New York City under electric arc lights, with trees, the hand and torch of the Statue of Liberty, the obelisk Worth Monument, buildings including the Fifth Avenue Hotel and the Erie Railway ticket office with signs including one for the "Payonia Ferry / Jersey City", and electricity poles in the background; the scene is captioned "Dick-'Cut in the face. He hadn't the cheek to stand it.'"; with a date sheet for a November 10, [1882], show, presumably at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the comedic melodrama "Cheek" written by Frederick Mardsen and starring the comedian Roland Reed.
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Image of two outdoor vignettes showing men's day and evening wear; top panel captioned "French." and "American." and bottom panel captioned "American." and "English."; fashion details include cloaks, tail coats and frock coats worn with trousers or pantaloons, waistcoats, and cravats; accessories include top hats, canes, and gloves; reference key for figures numbered 1-12 along bottom margin.
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Image of a central image of American actor Gus Williams dressed in character as a police officer swinging a night stick with surrounding vignettes of crime scenes including a woman being held at gunpoint on a porch next to the East River in New York City where a man prepares to dive into the water to save a drowning man, with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background, captioned "The East River Tragedy," at upper right; Officer Mishler in his pajamas pointing a gun at a man in a hall outside of bedrooms, captioned "'Why do you interfere between man and wife?' 'On the personal responsibility of a man'- John Mishler," at bottom center; two women looking at two men on a sidewalk, captioned "The Masher," at center left; and a man holding a baby before a woman captioned "'Are you sure this is the little girl?,'" at upper left; the poster advertises the play "One of the Finest" written by Joseph Bradford.
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