Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Students conducting a post-mortem examination of a human body at the School of Pharmacy, Northwestern University
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Visual Materials
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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
A carte-de-visite portrait of a Filipino man standing in front of a bare wall, wearing a shirt, pants and a woven hat. On the back, in handwriting, is: "Indian of Manilla [sic]" and the photographer's stamp: A. Honiss, Escolta, Manila.
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Visual Materials
Four of the men are identified in handwriting on a copy of this photograph in the Historical Society of Southern California photograph collection (photCL 400, box 36), by an unknown source: "Back row, left to right: William McKee, Charles Johnson, Alfred Robinson (?) and man seated, second from right: Robert Carlisle." Photographer's imprint on inside front cover: "Robert H. Vance, Premium Daguerrean Galleries, San Francisco, Sacramento & Marysville." Date based on years that Vance had galleries in these locations.
(photDAG 36)
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Rare Books
Three reports: 1) "A Survey in Seating, Instituted by Heywood-Wakefield Company and Conducted by Dr. Earnest A. Hooton and Staff of Harvard University Department of Anthropology, Statistical Laboratory." Detailed report of research, by famous physical anthropologist, on adults selected in Boston and Chicago. Statistical tables, photos, drawings. Recommendations for manufacture of seats for coach trains (Walsh Press, Boston, 1945); 2) "Diesel Motor Trains." An economic evaluation by Stanley Berge and Donald Loftus of the Northwestern University School of Commerce. Study of self-propelled trains that operated without locomotives (1949); 3) "Self-Propelled Diesel Cars and Multiple-Unit Trains." (Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL.,1952).
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Manuscripts
Group photograph of University of Chicago students and Edwin Powell Hubble. Students and Hubble are identified below the photograph: William Goergen, Leo C. DeTray, Robert S. Harris, J.J. Schommer, and Harlan O. Page. Some of the young men are holding stuffed bears, including one bear with a "C" on its chest. Hubble is in the back row, center. The mean are wearing suits and hats.
mssHUB 1038 (2)
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Manuscripts
Collection of correspondence, papers, and ephemera related to the life and professional work of Dr. Edward Anthony Spitzka and his father Dr. Edward Charles Spitzka. The chief subjects covered are: neurology, criminology, psychiatry and behavioral psychology and brain morphology.
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Visual Materials
A group portrait of lumber camp workers of Japanese heritage, and their families, in front of a camp building with railroad tracks at the doorstep. The gelatin silver photograph, 11 x 14 inches, depicts 31 men, three women, several young children and babies, and a dog. A few men are holding babies and one man is posed holding a watering can above a flowering planter box. Handwriting at the bottom of the print reads: "This is All Japanese Boys at Camp" and the photographer's credit is in the negative: # 65 Kinsey Photo. These loggers worked for the Manley-Moore Lumber Company, which operated approximately 1910 to 1934 on a tract of old growth timber in Pierce County, Washington. (Source: Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection, University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections.)
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