Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108

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Image of a program for a firework show at Camp Seymour in Hartford, Connecticut to honor Colonel Thomas H. Seymour from the U.S. Regiment. The program describes various types of fireworks such as the "Mexican Sun," "Indian Palmetto," and "Persian Rose." The lower portion of the print also includes two columns, the one on the left lists names and positions of field and staff officers at the parade. This section includes a small decorative border with images of eagles and arrows. The column on the right includes names of companies present at the parade. Text on the print is printed in about ten different font styles.
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Printer: Bingham & Dodd, Hartford (Conn.). Publisher: American Publishing Co., Hartford (Conn.).
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Printer: D.W. Kellogg & Co., Hartford (Conn.).
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Printer: Calhoun Printing Co. (Hartford, Conn.) With a woodcut image of head-and-shoulder portraits of minstrels M.T. Skiff and Low Gaylord of Skiff & Gaylord
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Image of a blank membership certificate from the Firemen's Benevolent Society of Hartford, Connecticut, with a central image of firefighters with hoses, ladders, and manual fire engines amassed on the street and tree-filled park before the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut, to fight a fire burning in a nearby building labeled with the signs "Elihu Geer Job & Card Printer" and "Case Nevers & Co."; with surrounding buildings labeled "Eagle Tavern" "Exchange Office" and "Oswin Welles," and spectators and a displaced family with their household belongings standing on the street; with a small vignette of a fire hose carriage at bottom center; the image presumably depicts the August 9, 1839, fire in the Mitchell Building on State Street.
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Image of a membership certificate from the Firemen's Benevolent Society of Hartford, Connecticut, made out in manuscript to William H. Porter and dated February 8, 1858, with a central image of firefighters with hoses, ladders, and manual fire engines amassed on the street and tree-filled park before the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut, to fight a fire burning in a nearby building labeled with the signs "Elihu Geer Job & Card Printer" and "Case Nevers & Co."; with surrounding buildings labeled "Eagle Tavern" "Exchange Office" and "Oswin Welles," and spectators and a displaced family with their household belongings standing on the street; with a small vignette of a fire hose carriage at bottom center; the image presumably depicts the August 9, 1839, fire in the Mitchell Building on State Street.
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