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 elevated landscape view of the Lauer Brewing Company brewery in Reading, Pennsylvania; a large industrial complex of factory buildings is pictured including the breweries, smokestacks, ice plant, boiler house, hop storage, office, malt house, band stand, hotel, garden, and several others including a bowling alley in Lauer's Park; railroad cars labeled "Refrigerator Line. Ale Porter and Lager Beer," a Philadelphia & Reading Railroad passenger train, cable car, and horse-drawn vehicles are visible along the street in the foreground; small inset image at bottom right features an earlier view of the much-smaller brewery captioned "Lauer's brewery in 1866"; a Greek sphinx is pictured in a circular ivy-bordered frame captioned by the words "Trade mark" at bottom center.
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Image of a man and woman dining at a table in the well-appointed railroad train dining car; an African-American waiter brings a tray towards the table with two glasses and a bottle of Nickel Plate beer, as the bottle already on the table is mostly empty; "Centlivre's Nickel Plate Bottled Beer" is printed on the tablecloth; a large single bottle of Nickel Plate beer resting on a frog railroad tie is pictured at bottom right of main image.
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Visual Materials
The Jay T. Last collection of finance prints and ephemera contains approximately 1,075 printed items from the United States dating from 1794 to 1926, with the bulk of the content dating from 1840 to 1900. Items are related to the creation, distribution, and management of money as well as the conduct or transaction of money matters, including the protection or sale of personal and real property by agents, brokers, dealers, or land developers. This category covers accounting, auctions, banking, collection agencies, credits and loans, insurance, investment, and real estate along with the equipment, supplies, and structures associated with these businesses such as cash registers, checks, insurance policies, paper currency, and financial buildings. Most items are lithographs, but engravings and woodcuts are also included. The collection includes 54 large-size items comprised mainly of advertising prints and insurance agreements. Small-size items number approximately 1,020 and contain a variety of materials, including trade cards, checks, leaflets, currency, imitation currency, and printed billheads and letterheads (with and without manuscript text). The collection provides a look at the evolution of advertising strategies and contractual language in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The images on the insurance-related materials often include depictions of fires and natural disasters, providing a resource for studying the history of emergency response and firefighting during this era. As graphic materials, the collection highlights developing techniques and trends in printmaking while documenting the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
Visual Materials
Image of a woman in a white draped dress and mantle reclining on pillows outside on a hammock with a fan in one hand; a dog sits on a skin rug on the floor next to her; columned patio with plants and greenery visible in the background; lions holding flags with "N" for Nashawannuck Manufacturing Company with motto, "Trade mark. Labor omnia vincit" in shield-shaped frames at top left and right.
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Image of an elevated street view of the C.L. Centlivre Brewing Company factory buildings in Fort Wayne, Indiana, including the main building, which has the lettering "Est'd 1862 ... Rebt 1888," an office, bottling works, store room, and wagon shed; with a barge in a canal, carriages and trolleys in the streets, and a rural landscape and the St. Joe River in the background; vignette portrait of founder Charles Louis Centlivre at bottom left.
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Visual Materials
The Jay T. Last collection of finance prints and ephemera contains approximately 1,075 printed items from the United States dating from 1794 to 1926, with the bulk of the content dating from 1840 to 1900. Items are related to the creation, distribution, and management of money as well as the conduct or transaction of money matters, including the protection or sale of personal and real property by agents, brokers, dealers, or land developers. This category covers accounting, auctions, banking, collection agencies, credits and loans, insurance, investment, and real estate along with the equipment, supplies, and structures associated with these businesses such as cash registers, checks, insurance policies, paper currency, and financial buildings. Most items are lithographs, but engravings and woodcuts are also included. The collection includes 54 large-size items comprised mainly of advertising prints and insurance agreements. Small-size items number approximately 1,020 and contain a variety of materials, including trade cards, checks, leaflets, currency, imitation currency, and printed billheads and letterheads (with and without manuscript text). The collection provides a look at the evolution of advertising strategies and contractual language in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The images on the insurance-related materials often include depictions of fires and natural disasters, providing a resource for studying the history of emergency response and firefighting during this era. As graphic materials, the collection highlights developing techniques and trends in printmaking while documenting the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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