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 hippopotamus in a cage with a gaping mouth; small vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of Cole Bros. owners Jess Adkins and Zack Terrell in the upper left corner.
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Visual Materials
Image of a hippopotamus in a cage with an open gaping mouth; date sheet for an April 22, [1966], show in Hemet, California, pasted below image.
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Image of a hippopotamus in the wild rising out of water with a gaping mouth; "The World's Largest Circus" circular logo at top right; date sheet for an August 19, [1963], show in Olean, New York, pasted below image.
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Image of a circus menagerie with spectators viewing animals in caged circus wagons and fenced-in areas; animals include giraffes, a hippopotamus in a cage labeled "World's largest and only trained hippopotamus," a rhinoceros, zebras, lions, tigers, pears, polar bears, elephants, and camels; date sheet for a Tuesday, July 30, [1946], show in Lorain, Ohio, pasted below image.
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Image of a circus menagerie with spectators viewing fenced and caged zoo animals including elephants, hippopotamus, polar bears, ostriches, seals, and zebras; "World Toured" globe logo at bottom right corner; "Cole Bros. Circus" panel pasted over another name printed on poster, presumably the Robbin Bros. Circus; date sheet for a June 18, [1936], show promoting "Ken Maynard's Wild West" in New London, Connecticut, pasted below image.
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Visual Materials
Image of a hippopotamus with mouth agape in the wild with a mother and baby hippopotamus in the water behind.
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