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  • Old Series Trademark No. 3190
    Old Series Trademark No. 3190

    Bonita Brand

    Date: 1898

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 197
    McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 197

    Caption: "OSTRICH FARM, Pasadena, California.," c. 1905. View of several ostriches in a corral at the Caswston Ostrich Farm in Pasadena. Opened by Edward Cawston in 1886, this was the first ostrich farm in the U.S. It became a popular tourist stop along the Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway in the early twentieth century, where visitors could ride an ostrich, or be pulled by one in a light card. They could also buy merchandise made out of ostrich feathers, such as hats and boas. The farm closed in the mid-1930s.

    Date: 1905

  • Old Series Trademark No. 3409
    Old Series Trademark No. 3409

    Sunbeam Acetylene Gas Co.

    Date: 1899

  • McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 306
    McCarthy Album 07, Photograph 306

    Caption: "In The Asti Vineyards - In Days Gone By," c. 1915, shows William and Grace McCarthy posing in front of a giant sculpture of a wine bottle at the Italian Swiss Colony winery, Asti Vineyards, in the Alexander Valley in Sonoma County.

    Date: 1915