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 Gem Stove Polish with a monkey in a turban, livery coat and striped pants brushing a baby's stomach with stove blacking on top of a kitchen table; a horrified mother rushes into the kitchen in the background next to the lit stove.
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Visual Materials
Image of three copies on one sheet of an advertisement for Dixon's Carburet of Iron Stove Polish showing nine African-American children crowd around their Uncle Obadiah who is seated near a stove and holding a package of stove polish; description of product in pidgin English and image of a package of stove polish on verso.
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Visual Materials
Image of an advertisement for Dixon's stove polish; a naked small child standing on a kitchen counter next to boxes of Dixon's stove polish is cleaned off by an African American woman using a brush and cloth; pots steam on a hot stove in background.
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Visual Materials
Image of a single-fold advertisement leaflet for adjustable elbow stove pipes manufactured by Standard Pipe Company of Boston, Massachusetts; image of stove and adjustable pipes on recto; description on verso.
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Visual Materials
Image of an advertisement for Keystone stove polish with "virtue liberty and independence" heraldry trademark at center and elaborate decorative border.
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Visual Materials
Image of a three-fold leaflet advertising the Mansard Cook stove manufactured by Daniel E. Paris & Company of Troy, New York; vignette of stove in the home and three models of stoves with descriptions on recto; three models of stoves and descriptions on verso.
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