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 Angels at the Sepulchre. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1889) Blossom Time. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1896) Buffum, Geo. A. A Driftwood Fire. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1890) Mathews, F. Schuyler. An Easter Cross. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1886) Closson, W. B. Homes and Haunts of the Poets original etchings by W. B. Closson : Emerson. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1886) Mathews, F. Schuyler. Ye Book of Goode Luck. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1889) Mathews, F. Schuyler. Ye Book of Goode Luck. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1889) Closson, W. B. Homes and Haunts of the Poets original etchings by W. B. Closson : Hawthorne. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1886) Payne, John Howard. Home! Sweet Home! (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1890) Gray, Bessie. Handful of June Pansies. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1895) Haunts of Bryant. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1889) Haunts of Emerson. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1889) Haunts of Hawthorne. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1889) Haunts of Holmes. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1889) Haunts of Longfellow. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1889) Haunts of Whittier. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1889)
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Smith, Walter. American Text Books of Art Education: Freehand Drawing number one. (Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow & Co., 1875) Smith, Walter. American Text Books of Art Education: Freehand Drawing number two. (Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow & Co., 1875) Smith, Walter. American Text Books of Art Education: Geometrical Drawing number two. (Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow & Co., 1875) Smith, Walter. American Text Books of Art Education: Freehand Drawing number four. (Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow & Co., 1875) Smith, Walter. American Text Books of Art Education: Freehand Drawing number five. (Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow & Co., 1875) Smith, Walter. American Text-Books of Art Education Revised Edition. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1879) Clark, John S., Mary Dana Hicks, and Walter S. Perry. No. 8 Prang's Complete Course in Form Study and Drawing. (Boston: The Prang Educational Company, 1894) Clark, John S., Mary Dana Hicks, and Walter S. Perry. No. 10 Prang's Complete Course in Form Study and Drawing. (Boston: The Prang Educational Company, 1892) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Birds of Prey. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Birds of Prey. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Swimming Birds. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Wading Birds. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Cat Family. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Cat Family. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Calkins, Norman A. and Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Prang's Natural History Series for Children. Cat Family. (Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1878) Mathews, F. Schuyler. Wayside Flowers. Series I. being a description of American wild flowers that bloom in April, May, and Early June. (Boston & Springfield, MA: Taber-Prang Art Co., 1898) Mathews, F. Schuyler. Wayside Flowers Series II. being a description of American wild flowers that bloom in late May, June, July and early August. (Boston & Springfield, MA: Taber-Prang Art Co., 1898) Mathews, F. Schuyler. Wayside Flowers Series III. being a description of American wild flowers that bloom in July, August and September. (Boston & Springfield, MA: Taber-Prang Art Co., 1898) Mathews, F. Schuyler. Wayside Flowers. Series IV. being a description of American wild flowers that bloom in August, September, October, and June to October. (Boston & Springfield, MA: Taber-Prang Art Co., 1898)
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The Jay T. Last collection of printing and publishing: Louis Prang archive contains over 3,600 items dating from 1858 to 1916, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1860 to 1897. This archive chronicles the business history of Boston lithographer Louis Prang through art prints, advertisements, printed volumes, and promotional ephemera produced by L. Prang & Co. and its successor companies: Prang Educational Company and Taber Prang Art Co. The archive also contains catalogs, certificates, price lists, business records and correspondence, personal letters and photographs, news clippings, and original art considered for lithographic reproduction. The collection provides a resource for studying the business and output of one of the most influential major lithographic firms in the United States in the 19th century. The images provide information about American tastes and culture as well as the evolution of advertising strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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The Jay T. Last collection of printing and publishing: Louis Prang archive contains over 3,600 items dating from 1858 to 1916, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1860 to 1897. This archive chronicles the business history of Boston lithographer Louis Prang through art prints, advertisements, printed volumes, and promotional ephemera produced by L. Prang & Co. and its successor companies: Prang Educational Company and Taber Prang Art Co. The archive also contains catalogs, certificates, price lists, business records and correspondence, personal letters and photographs, news clippings, and original art considered for lithographic reproduction. The collection provides a resource for studying the business and output of one of the most influential major lithographic firms in the United States in the 19th century. The images provide information about American tastes and culture as well as the evolution of advertising strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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The Jay T. Last collection of printing and publishing: Louis Prang archive contains over 3,600 items dating from 1858 to 1916, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1860 to 1897. This archive chronicles the business history of Boston lithographer Louis Prang through art prints, advertisements, printed volumes, and promotional ephemera produced by L. Prang & Co. and its successor companies: Prang Educational Company and Taber Prang Art Co. The archive also contains catalogs, certificates, price lists, business records and correspondence, personal letters and photographs, news clippings, and original art considered for lithographic reproduction. The collection provides a resource for studying the business and output of one of the most influential major lithographic firms in the United States in the 19th century. The images provide information about American tastes and culture as well as the evolution of advertising strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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The Jay T. Last collection of printing and publishing: Louis Prang archive contains over 3,600 items dating from 1858 to 1916, with the bulk of the items spanning from 1860 to 1897. This archive chronicles the business history of Boston lithographer Louis Prang through art prints, advertisements, printed volumes, and promotional ephemera produced by L. Prang & Co. and its successor companies: Prang Educational Company and Taber Prang Art Co. The archive also contains catalogs, certificates, price lists, business records and correspondence, personal letters and photographs, news clippings, and original art considered for lithographic reproduction. The collection provides a resource for studying the business and output of one of the most influential major lithographic firms in the United States in the 19th century. The images provide information about American tastes and culture as well as the evolution of advertising strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As graphic materials, the prints offer evidence of developing techniques and trends in printmaking, and of the artists, lithographers, printers, and publishers involved in the creative process.
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