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 large exhibition building for the National Peace Jubilee in Boston, Massachusetts, with three smaller ticket booths along one side; people stream towards the building, arriving on foot, in horse-drawn vehicles, and on horseback.
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Image of a large exhibition building for the National Peace Jubilee in Boston, Massachusetts; people are gathered in small groups outside the building, or are traveling to or from the Jubilee in horse-drawn vehicles; a group of soldiers marches in ranks in front of the building.
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Image of a large exhibition hall building for the Grand Foreign Exhibition in Boston, Massachusetts, with the city of Boston visible in the background; central image shows "Mechanics Hall," a large exhibition space built and owned by the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, where the foreign exhibition was held, located on Huntington Avenue and West Newton Street; people visible outside the building, arriving on foot, in horse-drawn vehicles, and on bicycle or tricycle; horse-drawn carts labeled "Emerson Piano Co" carrying large wood crates at left; center image is surrounded by 19 advertisements for various products and services, including biscuits, musical instruments, oil, and machinery.
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Image of the interior of the International Exhibition in London, England, at the nave, looking west along the gallery; a high arched ceiling is lined along each side with flags from all over the world; people socialize and browse on two levels throughout the building.
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Image of an elevated landscape view of the town of Manchester, New Hampshire, depicting a firemen’s muster with a large crowd of spectators and firefighters with hand-pump manual fire engines gathered around the pond in Merrimack Square; a fire hose competition is visible at back left with a stream of water being shot in the air from a fire hose next to a wooden measuring pole; being shot from a fire hose at back left as part of a contest; some of the fire engines have labels including “2”, “Excelsior 3 Bangor” “Protector No. 3” “Gen Worth” “Torrent” and some the firefighters wear belts with labels including “Deluge” “Protector” “Lawrence” “[So]uth Reading” and “Alert”; the buildings visible in the background have the signs “Books” “Shirt Manufactory” “Museum” “C. Spencer & [Son Hard]ware” “B.L. Bartlett” “Eating House” and “Rowle & Co.” and the church is labeled ““Bidwell Glunn’s[?] Company at 3 [? o’clock] 15”; the scene also includes trees, American flags, dogs, women in hoop skirts, and children.
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Image of an advertisement for shuttle sewing machines by White Sewing Machine Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and sold by Levi Bange of Valley Junction, Pennsylvania; columns listing the benefits of White Shuttle machines flank a center image of a woman at home sewing at a machine below draped American flags and a bald eagle; White Shuttle factory building at bottom center flanked by images of women in robes representing industry and knowledge with sewing machines at left and right.
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