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 Read More »
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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 Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »
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, Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »
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 Read More »
