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
The Jay T. Last collection of agriculture prints and ephemera contains roughly 2,115 items from approximately 1818 to 1924, with the majority of material dating from 1850 to 1900. The collection consists mainly of advertising prints and ephemera related to crop, hay, livestock, and dairy farming, including the tools, equipment, supplies, and structures used for cultivating soil; raising, harvesting, and storing crops; irrigating land; growing grasses for animal fodder; marking territory lines or separating fields and pastures; and boarding, breeding, feeding, rearing, tending, and selling farm animals. Agricultural machinery and implement companies dominate. Manufacturers and dealers of fertilizer, windmills, and fencing supplies are also represented, as are veterinary medicine, items used to collect or make dairy products, and items used on horses such as blankets, halters, harnesses, horseshoes, nails, saddles, and riding whips. Certificates issued by or pertaining to agricultural societies and organizations are also found here. The collection's prints and ephemera are primarily promotional in nature and provide information about American farming and agriculture-related industries, as well as the evolution of advertising strategies employed by these businesses in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Materials in this collection also provide a perspective on American membership and participation in various agricultural societies and organizations. As graphic materials, the items offer evidence of printmaking techniques and trends, as well as information about the artists, engravers, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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Image of two elevated views of the Phoenix Horse Shoe factories, one in Poughkeepsie, New York, showing factory buildings with smoke stacks, locomotives, and ships at the dock, and one in Joliet, Illinois, showing the factory buildings with smoke stacks and locomotives; framed with horseshoes.
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Image of an elevated landscape view of a suspension bridge across the gorge between Lewiston, New York, and Ontario, Canada, as seen from the Niagara River, and showing winding roads with pedestrians and horses leading into the mountains on both sides, and boats and a steamboat ferry in the water; bridge details printed in bottom margin.
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Image of an elevated view of the Confederate prison at Salisbury, North Carolina during the American Civil War showing railroad and several buildings inside the fenced prison complex; numbered key to buildings in lower margin.
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Printer: Empire City Job Print Photographs of riders and horses doing tricks
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Image of an elevated view of a two-story home amid landscaped grounds situated on a fenced corner lot; horse-drawn vehicle passing on the road in foreground; smaller structure behind house at far right.
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