Parker Lyon's Pony Express Museum in Arcadia, 1939

Photograph

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Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage

Pony Express Museum in Arcadia, CA 1939: Origsize: 10.5 x 6.2 cm (image; Origformat: Print-Photographic
Pony Express Museum in Arcadia, CA 1939

Origsize: 10.5 x 6.2 cm (image; Origformat: Print-Photographic

Name/Title

Parker Lyon's Pony Express Museum in Arcadia, 1939

Entry/Object ID

P2015.17

Tags

William Parker Lyon's Pony Express Museum

Description

B/W photograph with a white border of Parker Lyon's Pony Express Museum in Arcadia, California in 1939. A woman is seen outside near the museum's entrance in a black dress, a white hat and carrying her white handbag. She is standing in front of an old steam locomotive with a partial view of a black automobile on the right side of the photograph. The top border has the following written in blue ink: "where the movies get their stuff. Arcadia, Calif". The top right has the date "6-17-1939'" written in blue ink on the photograph. Parker Lyons collected over a million pieces of western memorabilia and displayed them in several buildings in six acres at the corner of Huntington Drive and Colorado Blvd in Arcadia. In 1955 the museum was sold in and moved to Reno, Nevada. The collection has since been broken up and sold to private investors.

Collection

Photography Collection