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We are striving to provide increased online content to our community. This blog features articles related to the Museum's vast collections and changing exhibitions.
From the PMH Volunteer Bookshelf
Looking for your next book to read? Check out these recommendations from members of the Museum’s Volunteer Book Club.
Pasadena’s First “First Responders”
They may not have called themselves Pasadena’s Bucket Brigade, but we should consider the citizens of Pasadena as this young city’s first “first responders.” There …
Preserving the Protest: The Scrapbook of Mary A. Holmes
Historian, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote “well-behaved women seldom make history” to describe colonial women who were included in the community, but whose records and lives …
Out of the Dumpster and Into the Archives
Finding history in a collection of photographs and newspaper clippings is an exciting time in the Archives. When a stack of seemingly unimportant papers and …
Ernest Batchelder’s European Sketches
Ernest Batchelder is renowned for the distinctive softly-hued tiles his firm produced during the early twentieth century. These tiles, which adorn public, commercial, and private …
Early Pasadena: An Astonishing Garden of Flowers
Early Pasadena was often described by visitors as a paradise. Webster defined paradise as “any place … of blissful delights,” and one of the delights …
Leaving the Past Behind & Starting Anew in Pasadena
“Dr. Adalbert Fenyes, wife, and daughter of New York City are recent arrivals in Pasadena, and have taken the Darling house on Grand avenue for …
KLB Radio: Pasadena’s First Radio Station
In the early 1920s Americans all over the country were falling under the spell of the newest novelty, amateur radio broadcasting. It was sometimes referred …
Forward! March! Into the Colonel G.G. Green Collection
Two years and over 600 items later, the finding aid for the Colonel George G. Green collection at PMH is finished! The finding aid is …
Hungarian Crumb Pudding: The Perfect Ending to a Formal Dinner
At the turn of the twentieth century, dinner parties were elaborate affairs, designed to impress and to indicate social status. Evening Dress was the rule …
