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 issued to Mark Gridley of West Hartford, Connecticut, certifying him as a lifetime member of the American Bible Society; an angel in flight holding an "Everlasting Gospel" scroll illuminates a cross on Earth below while a man kneels at the glory of an illuminated book emerging from the clouds above him.
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Image of a goddess-like figure in white robes riding in a gold chariot pulled by three tigers through clouds with the sun shining behind her; female figure holds the reins made of suspenders in one hand and a pole topped with a flag printed with an "N" for the Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company in the other.
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Image of the allegorical woman figure Eureka with bear, spear, and cornucopia at the top center of a diploma certificate from Salinas City High School issued in 1889 to Elmer P. Alexander; elaborate oval border with interior library and exterior building views, "Lux mentis scientia" motto, and sun breaking through clouds.
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Image of the allegorical woman figure Eureka with bear, spear, and cornucopia at the top center of a diploma certificate from Oakland High School issued in 1886 to Edward A. Ellsworth; elaborate oval border with interior library and exterior building views, "Lux mentis scientia" motto, and sun breaking through clouds; City of Oakland Department of Education seal at bottom center.
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Visual Materials
Image of a blank membership certificate from the Firemen's Benevolent Society of Hartford, Connecticut, with a central image of firefighters with hoses, ladders, and manual fire engines amassed on the street and tree-filled park before the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut, to fight a fire burning in a nearby building labeled with the signs "Elihu Geer Job & Card Printer" and "Case Nevers & Co."; with surrounding buildings labeled "Eagle Tavern" "Exchange Office" and "Oswin Welles," and spectators and a displaced family with their household belongings standing on the street; with a small vignette of a fire hose carriage at bottom center; the image presumably depicts the August 9, 1839, fire in the Mitchell Building on State Street.
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Visual Materials
Image of a blank stock firefighter's membership certificate with surrounding vignettes of a firefighter returning a rescued baby to its mother; a female nurse tending to a wounded firefighter; a firefighter with a speaking trumpet; firemen in a city street at night before a burning building with steam fire engines and hoses; a firefighter pulling a fire engine; and firefighters aiming a house towards flames; certificate decorated with images of firefighting equipment including fire hats, speaking trumpets, axes, bells, lanterns, preventers, ladders, buckets, censers, fire hydrants, and fire hoses.
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