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 certificate memorializing a visit to the United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; image of four allegorical goddess figures reclining at center with symbols of American progress around and behind them, including a union shield, sheaves of grain, a plow and scythe, fruit, mechanical cogs, a caduceus, factories, and ships; images of the Main Building and Memorial Hall at top right and left corners; portraits of Presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant flank the seal of the Centennial Certificate Bureau of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that depicts a bald eagle standing on a shield of stars and stripes; signatures of Pennsylvania governor John F. Hartranft, mayor of Philadelphia William S. Stokley, and President Ulysses S. Grant.
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Visual Materials
Image of a United States Centennial Exhibition stock certificate with the goddess Columbia at top center surrounded by muses and women in ethnic costumes bearing gifts; an American eagle is flanked by bust sculptures of Presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant at center; working men and Native American Indians portrayed at left to represent 1776; soldiers, and African American man reading, a man with a sewing machine, and a sailor holding a model sailboat at left to represent 1876; three historical vignettes along the bottom portraying a farming scene with machinery, a train, and a steamboat, the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, and a scene with a windmill and an American Indian man sitting on a log with smoking factories in the background; seal of the Centennial Board of Finance at lower center; certificate is signed by Centennial Board of Finance president John Welsh and treasurer Frederick Fraley.
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Visual Materials
Image of a United States Centennial Exhibition stock certificate with the goddess Columbia at top center surrounded by muses and women in ethnic costumes bearing gifts; an American eagle is flanked by bust sculptures of Presidents George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant at center; working men and Native American Indians portrayed at left to represent 1776; soldiers, and African American man reading, a man with a sewing machine, and a sailor holding a model sailboat at left to represent 1876; three historical vignettes along the bottom portraying a farming scene with machinery, a train, and a steamboat, the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, and a scene with a windmill and an American Indian man sitting on a log with smoking factories in the background; seal of the Centennial Board of Finance at lower center; certificate is signed by Centennial Board of Finance president John Welsh and treasurer Frederick Fraley.
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Visual Materials
Image of the goddess Columbia seated with a laurel wreath in hand surrounded by American flags with an American eagle in the Union shield near her feet; portraits of the United States presidents from 1776-1876 and Revolutionary War generals curve around the central image of Columbia; an aerial view of the buildings for the United States Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876 at top center with closer views of Independence Hall, the Bunker Hill Monument, and Faneuil Hall inset; contrasting vignettes of a Revolutionary War battlefield and a prosperous agrarian and industrial scene captioned "The Struggle for Liberty" and "Peace and Prosperity" at lower left and right.
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Visual Materials
Image of the goddess Columbia seated with a laurel wreath in hand surrounded by American flags with an American eagle in the Union shield near her feet; portraits of the United States presidents from 1776-1876 and Revolutionary War generals curve around the central image of Columbia; an aerial view of the buildings for the United States Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1876 at top center with closer views of Independence Hall, the Bunker Hill Monument, and Faneuil Hall inset; contrasting vignettes of a Revolutionary War battlefield and a prosperous agrarian and industrial scene captioned "The Struggle for Liberty" and "Peace and Prosperity" at lower left and right.
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Image of the exterior of the Horticultural Hall building for the United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; several men and women visible walking outside the building.
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