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 an outdoor stage with the sword-swallowing performer Kar-Mi (Joseph Hallworth who also went by the stage name Victorina) in a Middle Eastern or Hindu ethnic costume kneeling and shooting a bullet from a gun in his mouth to break a cracker from the top of a nearly naked blindfolded man's head, with a bare-breasted woman and smoke-filled censer at the end of the stage, with a crowded audience comprised of bare-chested men wearing white turbans looking on, and a fortified, walled desert city in the background and palm trees at left.
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Image of a cartouche containing a group portrait of the Florenz Troupe, comprised of two female and ten male acrobats dressed in formal dress, centered within a large outdoor scene of the group performing two acrobatic routines simultaneously at left and right.
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Image of twenty-two Chinese circus performers on two stages, including acrobats, plate spinners, and jugglers, with three standard-bearers holding lanterns in the background; small vignette portraits of P.T. Barnum and J. A. Bailey at upper left.
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Image of a three-fold leaflet advertising the Mansard Cook stove manufactured by Daniel E. Paris & Company of Troy, New York; vignette of stove in the home and three models of stoves with descriptions on recto; three models of stoves and descriptions on verso.
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Image of female sword swallower Edna Price swallowing a tube.
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Visual Materials
Image of twenty-four male and female aerialists performing various acts in midair from bars and trapezes outdoors, with a countryside landscape and colored sky in the background.
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