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 woman using a pair of suspenders to drop from a second-story window frame to the ground; a man waits for her with arms outstretched as a male figure in a cap and dressing gown leans out the window with a candle in hand to survey the scene; woman and man below are dressing in historical costume; interlocking "WB&C" monogram at bottom center in stylized belt frame for West, Bradley & Cary Manufacturing Company.
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Image of minstrel musicians in blackface dressed in formal suits and sitting with their musical instruments on a curtained stage; vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of show proprietor Z. W. Sprague at top centered with four corner vignettes of minstrel performers consisting of a man gesturing at top left, a man dancing at top right, a man in a hobo costume holding an umbrella and jumping at bottom right, and two men in hobo costumes playing a banjo and tambourine at bottom left.
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Visual Materials
Image of an African American woman, dressed in a ball gown, center stage surrounded by a court of formally dressed men bowing to her with an orchestra in the balcony behind; vignette of a small head-and-shoulders profile portrait of show proprietor Al G. Field at top left.
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Image of a scene in a formal parlor with actor Charles L. Davis, playing the part of country bumpkin farmer Alvin Joslin, wrestling a man in formal suit for a gun, while a woman in a ball gown ducks away in fear, with a vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Davis in top left corner; the poster advertises the musical comedy "One of the Old Stock" by Davis.
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Image of a circus street parade crowded with horse-drawn circus wagons and a bandwagon, and exotic performers and animals, including elephants and camels; small vignette of a group head-and-shoulders portrait of three men, presumably the original founders of the circus, at top left corner; date sheet advertising an August 22, [1938], show in Middlesboro, Kentucky, pasted below image.
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Visual Materials
Image of a central vignette of a family sitting in a dining room on a snowy evening while a man lies dead on the ground next to a gun outside and a couple embraces in a barn, captioned "Dot, or the cricket on the hearth," with a top center vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of English-American comedic actor John Owens in formal dress, seven vignettes of portraits of Owens dressed as characters, captioned "Perkyn Middlewick the butterman," "Joshua Butterby," "Paul Pry," "John Unit," Major Wellington de Boots," Solon Shingle," and Dr. Pangloss, L.L.D. & A.S.S.," and six additional smaller vignettes of dramatic scenes.
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