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 bags of fertilizer and barrels of crops "Grown With Standard Fertilizers" and "Grown Without" on a balance scale showing Standard Fertilizer to be the superior choice in an advertisement for Standard Fertilizer Company of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Image of the dry docks of Screw Dock Company on the East River in New York City; workers labor over several ships' hulls while other boats approach the docks nearby; industrial buildings visible in background.
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Image of an elevated view of a factory building complex for Tygert-Allen Fertilizer Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; buildings visible along a waterfront with steam and sailing ships docking at the ports and locomotives transporting goods.
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Image of a steamship at a dock next to a freight train with workers unloading bags of Bradley's superphosphate of lime fertilizer; horse-drawn carts carry fertilizer loads among people from many walks of life, including African Americans, boys, well-dressed men, and laborers; bags stacked in foreground read, "Bradley's Patent Superphosphate of Lime Boston Mass. 200 lbs."
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Image of an advertisement booklet for Newport Fertilizer Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; four panels show an elderly farmer fertilizing a cabbage plant that grows quickly enough to allow him to climb it and escape a bull lettered with the words "The Trust" rampaging through the field; interior images show factory views, ships in the company's fleet, and train shipment of their fertilizer interspersed with advertising text.
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Image of a five-fold advertisement for fertilizer manufactured by Pacific Guano Company of Boston, Massachusetts, and sold by H. A. Blake of Sutton, Vermont; advertising text and testimonials throughout; images of a fish, a mammoth skeleton, and an aquatic bird eating a fish while standing atop a bag of "Soluble Pacific Guano" on cover panels.
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