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 advertisement for the Advance Thresher Company of Battle Creek, Michigan; portraits of United States presidents, labeled with names and years in office from George Washington in 1789 to Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 frame a pair of scenes contrasting African American slaves threshing on a plantation in Virginia in 1788 with machine threshing a harvest in the early 1900s; herald-bearer with banner for Advance at top center.
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Image of a four-fold advertisement for agricultural machinery manufactured by J. I. Case & Company of Racine, Wisconsin; images of farmers working with horses and agricultural machinery; price lists on verso.
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Image of a circus street parade led by a boys' marching drum corps, and fox hunters riding horses with hunting dogs along side; one horse rider holds a flag labeled "Parade Section No. 2."
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Image of an advertisement for threshing machines manufactured by the Westinghouse Company of Schenectady, New York; farmers working with agricultural machinery and engines in a field at center; machinery and grain inset at left; factory building complex with locomotives coming and going inset at top right.
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Image of six children indoors building a tower with a stack of oversized shoes and shoe boxes advertising S.D. Sollers & Company's children's shoes; fashion details include jackets, collared shirts, breeches, and hose for boys, knee-length full skirts with lace, ribbons, ruffles, hose, and fitted bodices for girls; accessories include gloves, shawl, hair ribbons, feathered hats, small handbag, cane, and heeled boots with buttons and scalloped trim.
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Image of trains traveling past farms and livestock fields with barbed wire fencing in an advertisement for Glidden Steel Barb Wire manufactured by I.L. Ellwood & Company of De Kalb, Illinois; fencing advertised to be impervious to floods and sparks with captions including "After the Flood," and "Sparks" at left and right; industrial building at top center; barbed wire border.
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