Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108

Visual Materials
Image of a blank stock certificate for membership in a fire department with a central image of firefighters fighting a large fire in a town with the ruins of buildings in the background and four vignettes of individual firemen including one beginning to pull a manual fire engine out of a fire house; a firefighter with a horn in the middle of the street pointing towards a burning building; a firefighter rescuing a woman in her bedroom; and a firefighter spraying water from a fire hose on flames; certificate and vignettes are decorated with an ornate border with images of firefighting equipment including fire hydrants, ladders, speaking trumpets, as well as censers, bells, and a vase of flowers.
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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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Image of a firefighter's exempt membership certificate from the Owego Fire Department of Owego, New York, made out in manuscript to C. G. Carter of the Ahwaga Hose Company and dated October 1896, with surrounding vignettes of fire equipment including a hose carriage; a manual fire engine labeled "1862"; a hook and ladder truck with hand buckets labeled "Defiance"; a steam fire engine; two fire hydrants; and a bottom image of an eye-level landscape view of the Tioga County Courthouse building in Owego with a gazebo, trees, and park around it; the certificate has an embossed gold seal of the Tioga County Fire Department.
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Image of a firefighter's membership certificate from the Gold Hill Fire Department of Gold Hill, Nevada, made out in manuscript to H. H. Flagg and dated May 22, 1867, with multiple vignettes including bare-chested goddesses riding two horses, with one holding a triton; a manual fire engine and a steam fire engine; a firefighter returning a rescued baby to its mother; a wounded firefighter on a mattress being nursed by a young woman while another fireman on a ladder behind them lowers a bundle tied in a rope; two eye-level exterior views of firehouses, both labeled "Yellow Jacket Engine Ho."; and an elevated landscape view presumably of the town of Gold Hill, Nevada; the certificate and vignettes are decorated with borders containing ivy leaves, bean pods, grapes, and other plants and firefighting equipment including fire hydrants, hoses, ladders, hats, speaking trumpets, a lantern, censers, and axes.
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Image of a firefighter's membership certificate from the Cambridge Fire Department of Cambridge, Massachusetts, made out in manuscript to William T. King and dated August 13, 1879, with surrounding vignettes of a hook and ladder truck with a driver being drawn by two horses; a fire hose carriage with a driver being drawn by a horse; two side views of steam fire engines attached to a fire hydrant; and the rubble and ruins of buildings during a fire; the certificate and vignettes are bordered by utility poles and fire hoses.
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Image of a firefighter's certificate of service in the Boston Fire Department from the City of Boston made out in manuscript to Amasa Pray and dated March 4, 1846, with a central image of an eye-level view of the Old State House in Boston, Massachusetts, on fire with smoke coming out of the windows and firefighters in and around the building with hoses, ladders, and manual fire engines, while spectators watch from the street and surrounding buildings; the image depicts the November 21, 1832, fire that seriously damaged the Old Massachusetts State House (then serving as city hall of Boston); with an image of the seal of the City of Boston at bottom center showing the city as seen from the harbor with boats in the foreground.
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