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 …
Category: Pasadena Collections
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
Tintype of the Parker Brothers (Charles and Millard Parker Collection, CMP.1.21) Finding history in a collection of photographs and newspaper clippings is an exciting time …
Ernest Batchelder’s European Sketches
E.A. Batchelder, sketch of unidentified European city street. Image courtesy of Archives, Pasadena Museum of History (BFP.2.92) Ernest Batchelder is renowned for the distinctive softly-hued …
Early Pasadena: An Astonishing Garden of Flowers
A hedge of Cherokee Roses on Arlington Drive was a notable feature of the gardens in front of the Durand home. Early Pasadena was often …
Leaving the Past Behind & Starting Anew in Pasadena
Eva Scott Muse, circa 1884, photo by Julius Ludovici’s Photographic and Crayon Studios, Newport, Rhode Island. (FCP.38.1.5b) “Dr. Adalbert Fenyes, wife, and daughter of New …
KLB Radio: Pasadena’s First Radio Station
Singer Donald Novis, 1928. Photo by New York photographer Harold Stein (Courtesy of Pasadena Public Library, 14014) In the early 1920s Americans all over the …
Forward! March! Into the Colonel G.G. Green Collection
George G. Green preparing to play golf (George G. (Gill) Green Special Collection) Two years and over 600 items later, the finding aid for the …
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 …
Owen Brown in Pasadena
On August 17, 1886, the National G.A.R. Encampment visited Pasadena. “An event that will live in history is the hauling in a carriage by enthusiastic …
