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 five head-and-shoulder portraits, in heart frames surrounded by flowers, for characters in the play the "Human Hearts" depicting a young man in a straw hat, captioned "Tom Logan with a human heart," at center; a hobo with a red-painted nose, captioned "Jem. Mason with an honest heart," at upper right; a girl, captioned, "Grace with an angel's heart," at lower right; a woman, captioned "Jeanette with a black heart," at lower left; and a boy wearing a cap, captioned "Limpy with a heart in the right place," at upper left; the poster advertises the melodrama the "Human Hearts" written by Hal Reid and later directed by William E. Nankeville.
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Image of a central image of an older African American man in a torn shirt and suspenders kneeling before Abraham Lincoln who holds a handwritten copy of the “Emancipation Proclamation” with broken shackles at his feet, captioned “Abolition of Slavery”; with an upper-left image of Eliza, a young mother, and a young girl coming to Uncle Tom and his wife, who holds a candle, in their pajamas before their cabin at night, captioned “Eliza seeking protection of Uncle Tom”; a lower-left image of Eva, a young blond girl lying in a small bed with white and African American mourners crowding around the bed and a night stand with a cup, small bottle, and box on it, captioned “Death of Eva”;an upper-right image of an African American man and woman dancing in the front yard of a cabin in a wooded area with African American onlookers and a man playing a banjo, captioned “Pastimes in the sunny South”; a lower-right image of Topsy, a young African American girl wearing a potato sack dress that read “18 [space] CH,” throwing a bonnet while sitting on a messy floor next to a can while a white woman in formal dress looks on aghast; the poster presumably advertises an Uncle Tom’s Cabin show.
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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 Japanese aerialists, acrobats, and jugglers, some wearing kimonos, performing acts, with a lower left corner vignette of two men fighting with swords captioned "Exercices de Guerriers," and a lower right vignette of two men fencing, captioned "Escrime Japonaise"; small portrait of P.T. Barnum at upper left and small portrait of J. A. Bailey at upper right; with a French stamp and obscured Barnum and Bailey stamp at upper left.
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Image of an interior scene of a man and woman in historical costumes pointing a man wearing a pirate costume with a knife in his belt towards the door; the poster advertises the romantic drama "Blackmail" by William C. Cowper.
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