Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
[Windsor, St. James Chapel]
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Visual Materials
Two photographs by English photographer William Henry Fox Talbot: an image of an unidentified man seated at a desk (photPF 1753) and an image of the Lion monument in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen (photPF 1574).
photPF 1573-1574
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Portrait of French artist and photographer Antoine Claudet and unidentified sitter (in top hat) playing chess in Claudet's London studio.
photPF 1571
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Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of English art historian Katharine Ada Esdaile (1881-1950), with the bulk of the materials relating to her research and writings on British monumental sculpture, sculptors, and church monuments from the medieval period to 19th century. Material types include personal writings, diaries, correspondence, business papers, family papers and photographs, research files and research notebooks, and miscellaneous published and unpublished materials. Notably the collection includes more than 600 chiefly pre-World War II visitor booklets and pamphlets produced locally by British churches and approximately 3500 photographs taken or collected by Esdaile of sculpture, often funerary monuments in English churches, ranging from large churches like Westminster Abbey to small rural parishes. This collection provides a resource for viewpoints on monumental sculpture in the early 20th century (for instance as represented in book reviews by Esdaile) and for information about Esdaile's experience as a woman art historian in the early 20th century. Given the broadness of Esdaile's scope, from medieval to 19th century British monumental sculpture, the collection is less useful for specific information about monuments or sculptors. In addition, many of Esdaile's attributions in her notes appear to have been based primarily on her own instincts and do not have citations. Many of Esdaile's notes are handwritten on small scraps of paper or are fragments, sometimes making the information difficult to parse. The collection is chiefly Esdaile's files, but the dates on some items (such as post-1950 booklets) indicate the collection was added to and used after her death, presumably by her son Edmund Esdaile, who also made notes on items in the collection and appears to have done the preliminary organization of the papers after Esdaile's death.
mssEsdaile
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Visual Materials
View of the exterior of the courthouse in San Leandro, California, showing structural damage from the 1868 Hayward earthquake, including a collapsed roof.
photPF 20223
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Image of an eye-level exterior view of the Church of Our Lady of Consolation in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania; pedestrians visible outside church.
priJLC_REL_004028
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Bird's eye view of Pasadena, California, looking east from the Methodist Episcopal church at Colorado and Marengo streets, with citrus trees and homes visible.
photPF 25201