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
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Visual Materials
Image of three display cabinets intended to display seeds sold by David Landreth & Sons of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; each display is shown full of seed packets for fruits and vegetables, with merchant pricing information and quantities for each printed below.
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Image of various varieties of vegetables and fruit with caption labels, including cabbage, celery, squash, tomato, and corn; inset images of the "Hiram Sibley & Co. Seedsmen" buildings in Rochester, New York, and Chicago, Illinois, at top left and right.
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Image of a woman in a long dress sitting on the ground shelling peas in an advertisement for Dunlap's seeds; she sits next to a stone wall surrounded by a variety of fruits and vegetables, including lettuce, beans, celery, melons, radishes, onions, and corn; on the ground next to her is a basket lettered with "A. H. D. & S. Nashua N.H." full of tomatoes and turnips.
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Image of a deer with antlers in an oval frame in the center of a certificate issued by the Worcester Agricultural Society of Massachusetts; farming implements on the ground in a field surrounding the deer; trees, farmhouse and barn in background; seal of the County of Worcester, Massachusetts, with cow in center at bottom left.
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The Page Seed Company business correspondence, a subset within the Jay T. Last collection of American horticulture, contains approximately 225 business records spanning the late 1890s through the 1950s. The majority of the collection features correspondence to and from the Page Seed Company of Greene, New York, that documents the company's sourcing and selling of seeds for fruit, vegetables, flowers, and herbs, along with the supplies necessary to package and sell them. The letters, receipts, and invoices were received primarily from growers and merchants, and concern the purchase of seeds, packaging, and other supplies including issues related to orders, shipments, and payment matters. The materials include both handwritten and typed correspondence primarily on company stationery from a variety of businesses across the United States. Some letterheads have engraved or lithographed images of plants, seed bags, or commercial buildings. The collection also includes Page seed packets numbering approximately one dozen. These envelopes feature images and descriptions of the mature plants, as well as instructions for sowing and harvesting.
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Image of a woman wearing a long dress and straw hat seated at a table surrounded by a variety of vegetables, fruit, and flowers in bunches, barrels, and baskets in an advertisement for seeds sold by D. M. Ferry & Company of Detroit, Michigan.
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