Thomas Banigan poses next to Lyle Richard Barnett's Civ Aide A.R.C. Ambulance Driver's Uniform on display in the Starting Anew exhibition. As the exhibition Starting Read More »
Tag: exhibitions
The Games People Play
If you have ever matched your skill – or luck – at the gaming table, you’re not alone. For most of us games are pleasant 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 »
A Stink in West Pasadena
Headline for the article in the Pasadena Daily Evening Star on July 1, 1899. Both the Star and the Pasadena Daily News had fun reporting Read More »
The Pasadena Cycleway
Looking south from the Hotel Green, the cycleway was between Raymond on the left and Fair Oaks on the right. The toll booth is in Read More »
The Art of Getting There: Railroad Inspired Artistry
Steve Crise, co-curator of the exhibition The Art of Getting There: Railroad Inspired Artistry (on view March 29 - August 13, 2017) describes a selection Read More »
Colonel Green in the Archives
Not Colonel Mustard in the Library with a Candlestick Portrait of G.G. Green (Special Collections) Colonel Green is just one of the many people I’ve 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 »
Grayson Arts
John Gail Grayson (1909-1977) and Helen Lee Hoecker Grayson (1913-2003), circa 1945. Image courtesy of Nina Hoecker. Grayson Arts, the firm which created artisan ceramics 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 »
