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Title: A Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution, 1904
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1906
Description: Photograph of the famous oil painting done by Henry Jamyn Brooks (1865-1925), entitled, “A Friday Evening Discourse at the Royal Institution, 1904. Sir James Dewar on Liquid Hydrogen. Presented May 1906, to the Royal Institution by Dr. Ludwig Mond and Other Members.” Henry Dixon & Son, Ltd, photographers. British chemist Mond (1839-1909) with a generous endowment to the Royal Institution, established the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, of which Professor Dewar (1842-1923) became its director. Dewar, famous for being the first to liquify and eventually solidify hydrogen, was knighted in 1904.

Title: Cooking at Throop Institute
Format: photograph: print
Date: 1906
Series: Throop University
Description: Cooking was an important part of the curriculum at the turn of the 20th century.

Title: Surface rupture form the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1906
Series: Academic Divisions
Description: A view of the surface rupture near San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake. Seismology.

Title: Poster: “An Evening with the Throop Boys” Throop Institute Mandolin and Guitar Club
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1906
Series: Throop University
Description: 9th annual concert for the benefit of the Pasadena Hospital, Tuesday March 20, 1906. Original held by the Pasadena Historical Society. Throop - Student Activities - Misc.