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 …
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Ernest Batchelder: Educator, Designer and Tilemaker: Part II
This essay is adapted from the text in the exhibit Batchelder: Tilemaker, which was on view at Pasadena Museum of History from September 2016 through …
Fall 2017 Edition of the Collections Quarterly
Archives Feature - The Benshoff Collection Hotel Green Street Lamp (Benshoff Family Collection, WAB-058) Our Archives houses the marvelous Benshoff Family Collection, which contains architectural …
Ernest Batchelder: Educator, Designer and Tilemaker: Part I
This essay is adapted from the text in the exhibit Batchelder: Tilemaker, which was on view at Pasadena Museum of History from September 2016 …
World’s Smallest Motor: The McLellan Micromotor
William McLellan used a microscope to inspect his tiny motor, while holding a model one million times larger. 1960 (William McLellan Special Collection) In 1959, …
The Founding of Pasadena’s Schools
Pasadena Unified School District Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) had its humble beginnings in September 1874 in the parlor of William Clapp’s small house on …
Summer 2017 Edition of the Collections Quarterly
Archives Feature - Going Places with Frank Purcell Composite of Scrapbook Cover & Page 1, 1949. (Scrapbook Collection - Volume 77) In 1949, as California …
Railroad Edition of the Collections Quarterly
Archives Feature - Trolleys in Pasadena Local cars on Raymond Avenue, 1939. (Main Photo Collection, T13-26) Since a horse drawn wagon carried the first electric …
Ernest A. Batchelder (1875-1957)
In comments about the tilemaker, Robert Winter, PhD has noted that Batchelder wrote two books on design and illustrated them with his own drawings. He …
Historic Negatives Collections
PMH maintains the area’s largest and most complete photographic archives of Pasadena and its environs, numbering an estimated one million photographic images. Staff, interns, and …
