Category: Museum Collections

Lake Vineyard wine jugs

The Saga of the Lake Vineyard Wine Jugs

Wine Jug, Lake Vineyard, circa 1880; Gift of Bridget Flanagan and Kathleen...

August 29, 2024

Florence Ward, 1953. Photo by J. Allen Hawkins (Hawkins Collection, JAH10086).

Florence Ceramics

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March 25, 2021

Family of Dan Woods, uncle of Benjamin McAdoo (Black History Collection, BH-L-24-9). The McAdoo family is prominently featured in the online exhibit.

Community Histories: The Black History Collection

Pasadena Museum of History’s Black History Collection is comprised of...

February 10, 2021

First African Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday school, November 26, 1933 (Black History Collection, BH-D-1-12).

Community Histories: The Black History Collection

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February 10, 2021

Pasadena City Hall in the snow, 1949. Photo by William Hart (Main Photo Collection, C14-B9)

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

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January 14, 2021

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The Smart Set

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September 9, 2020

E.A. Batchelder, sketch of a thatched cottages in Campden, August 16, 1905. Image courtesy of Archives, Pasadena Museum of History (BFP.1.16)

Ernest Batchelder’s European Sketches

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January 23, 2020

The Batchelder-Wilson tile factory at 2633 Artesian Street. Los Angeles Times, September 19, 1920.

Ernest Batchelder: Educator, Designer and Tilemaker: Part II

This essay is adapted from the text in the exhibit Batchelder: Tilemaker, which...

October 25, 2017

Tudor Rose tile. Marked Batchelder, Pasadena, 3. Design in 1912 catalog, #94. (Gift of Robert Winter, 2015.008.035)

Ernest Batchelder: Educator, Designer and Tilemaker: Part I

 This essay is adapted from the text in the exhibit Batchelder: Tilemaker,...

September 27, 2017

William McLellan used a microscope to inspect his tiny motor, while holding a model one million times larger. 1960 (William McLellan Special Collection)

World’s Smallest Motor: The McLellan Micromotor

In 1959, Dr. Richard Feynman, the famous Caltech physicist, issued a challenge...

August 15, 2017

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