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A rare studio photograph of Clara Baldwin was discovered by local history expert, Jack McCaskill.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 22, 1987
Pages
p. 1 photos
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 22, 1987
Pages
p. 1 photos
Subjects
Baldwin, Clara
Item ID
590AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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History-Rancho Santa Anita (1875-1909)-Elias J. Baldwin

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Start Date
1875
End Date
1909
Contents
1. " 'Lucky' Baldwin's retreat." Article by Susanna B. Dakin. 2. Article from Touring Topics, March 1929, page 41. 3. "One of many entrances to 'Lucky' Baldwin's ranch." Page from a Los Angeles Racing Association program, 1907. 4. "First street entrance to Fairyland Park, Baldwin's ranch." Pageā€¦
Start Date
1875
End Date
1909
Contents
1. " 'Lucky' Baldwin's retreat." Article by Susanna B. Dakin.
2. Article from Touring Topics, March 1929, page 41.
3. "One of many entrances to 'Lucky' Baldwin's ranch." Page from a Los Angeles Racing Association program, 1907.
4. "First street entrance to Fairyland Park, Baldwin's ranch." Page from a Los Angeles Racing Association program, 1907.
5. "Large oak tree, Hotel Oakwood, Baldwin's ranch." Page from a Los Angeles Racing Association program, 1907.
6. "Rancho Santa Anita."Lasca Leaves, March 1976, by Sandy Snider.
7. "Pastoral - it's scenes like this that gave Arcadia its name." News photo mounted on gray paper, circa 1950.
8. "This is Santa Anita." Arcadia Tribune, March 23, 1950. News photo of Baldwin store.
9. "Baldwin's boat house." Arcadia Tribune, August 11, 1960. News photo of boat house.
10. "List of ranches and acreage planted to various crops." Century Magazine, October 1883, Volume XXVI, Number 6. Compiled 1978.
11. "Last remnant of the Rancho." Thoroughbred, November 1965 by Dick Nash. Six pages.
12. "Days of yore - progress is wonderful, but ..." Arcadia Tribune, March 24, 1949. News photo of Baldwin cattle pastures.
13. " 'Beast' Baldwin and his two great loves." Sports Illustrated, February 19, 1962 by Dolly Connelly.
14. "1894 photo of the bell tower of Mission San Gabriel." Article confirming bell from Mission was at ranch.
15. "History of Santa Anita." Westways, October 1955 by M. Richard Marx.
16. "Life at Guenoc (breeding farm owned by Lily Langtree). Westways, August 1957 by Idwal Jones.
17. "Mission-period Rancho." Arcadia Tribune, April 2, 1978.
18. "About 1876 or 1877, Baldwin hired a distant relative, Julius A. Kelly." Los Angeles Herald Tribune, December 30, 1960. Typed notes.
19. "Rancho was lucky for Baldwin." Arcadia Tribune, April 6, 1978.
20. The Peacock Call, September/October 1978. Rancho area residents' newsletter with article and map on Ranch. Also: a chronology on Rancho by Joe Buck.
21. "Life and death." Golden West, January 1966, pages 20-21+. Regarding Workman and Temple tragedy.
22. Ad in Sierra Madre Vista for Baldwin store. March 16, 1889.
23. February 1889 notice in Sierra Madre Vista telling of corn sale by Baldwin.
24. Story of Blas Cuellar recalls days of Baldwin Reign; 40 descendants still live in Arcadia. Arcadia Tribune, March 24, 1949. Cuellar had come from Mexico.
25. Letter relating to observation of the Ranch in 1883. Article in Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly, March 1979.
26. "Baldwin large operator - acquired much land in Los Angeles County." Chapter 3 from the book _California Memories_ by Jackson A. Graves, published by Times Mirror Press, 1930. Copied at Huntington Library, 1979.
27. "Lucky Baldwin's energy turning to the swamp lands of his great ranch." Valley Vista, March 31, 1900. Regarding lands in El Monte and Savanna areas.
28. "Mr. E.J. Baldwin was presented with four Java oyster shells by a captain of a vessel from China." San Gabriel Valley News, March 28, 1878.
29. "The Los Angeles Herald recently contained the following about E.J. Baldwin's Santa Anita Ranch: a long account of the ranch and its developing." Sierra Madre Vista, February 5, 1891.
30. Boat house construction." Sierra Madre Vista, May 28, 1891.
31. "Baldwin money for road up Mount Wilson." Sierra Madre Vista, May 3, 1889.
32. "Brick manufacture at Santa Anita." Sierra Madre Vista, April 14, 1888.
33. "Banana trees." Sierra Madre Vista, May 31, 1889.
34. List of numbers of fruit trees, grape vines, and head of livestock. Sierra Madre Vista, January 15, 1891.
35. "Acreage being sold for small ranches." Sierra Madre Vista, November 20, 1890.
36. "Estimated worth of ranch, 1891. Sierra Madre Vista, August 13, 1891.
37. Description of ranch from newspaper. Sierra Madre Vista, January 8, 1890.
38. "E.J. Baldwin's Santa Anita ranch is undoubtedly the most beautiful." Los Angeles Daily Herald, March 30, 1887. Copied from the Los Angeles Public Library by Sandy Snider of the Los Angeles County Arboretum.
39. "Water." San Gabriel Valley News, February 28, 1878. Regarding Baldwin building flumes to carry water from Big Santa Anita Canyon.
40. "The Santa Anita Ranch." Two pages from California of the South, by Walter Lindley, publisher, 1888.
41. "The Builders. VI Where Ranch and City Meet." Outing, October 1906 by Ralph D. Paine.
42. "In 1880, 'Lucky' Baldwin orange grove of 75 acres at Sierra Madre was planted to navels." Historical Society of Southern California Bulletin, December 1943, page 152.
43. "A large number of fine varieties of plants received for Mr. Baldwin." San Gabriel Valley News, February 28, 1878. From the Huntington Library.
44. Map showing irrigated lands, canals, pipe lines and pumping plants in the Pasadena Quadrangle, 1907. Original owned by Mrs. Robert Pitzer.
45. Letter from H. Unruh to Richard Garvey on E.J. Baldwin office letterhead featuring Bird's Eye Map. Original owned by Jack Donnelly. Obtained March 3, 1981.
46. "Notice of claim to water." Legal notice filed by E.J. Baldwin on August 23, 1883 in Court in Los Angeles. Regarding his right to water from Santa Anita Canyon. Original at County Hall of Records.
47. "Santa Anita Store." Ad in Sierra Madre Vista, circa late 1880's.
48. The Land of Sunshine: a magazine of California and the Southwest, February 1898, edited by Chas. F. Lummis. Photos and mentions of Arcadia on marked pages.
49. "Typical views of California." Los Angeles Times. Large photographic prints. (NOTE: OVERSIZE! See bottom drawer of photo file cabinet with oversize photos.)
50. "Childhood visit to Baldwin home recalled by former Los Angeles mayor." Arcadia Tribune, April 23, 1956, page 1. Article and photo.
51. "Rancho Santa Anita once vast Baldwin empire of more than 54,000 acres." News clip, circa April 1948.
52. "Lucky Baldwin's Rancho Santa Anita." by Percy L. Bonebrake. From the Westerners Brand Book, Los Angeles Corral. Book six, Los Angeles Westerners, 1956, page 83-85.
53. "Elias Jackson 'Lucky' Baldwin and his Santa Anita Ranch." by Carey S. Bliss. From the Westerners Brand Book, Los Angeles Corral. Book six, Los Angeles Westerners, 1956, page 79-82.
54. "20 cents an acre! - The Santa Anita Rancho story." The Realty Scene, Pasadena (Ca.) Independent, January 11, 1953 by Independent Real Estate Editor, Jack Cressman.
55. Ad in the Monrovia Planet, January 15, 1887, page 2. For the sale of 5-20 acre lots (out of 2,000 for sale) by E.J. Baldwin.
56. Arcadia Notes in the Monrovia Planet, May 21, 1887, page 2. Regarding buildings and road work, etc. for Arcadia at that time.
57. Article in the Monrovia Planet, March 15, 1887, page 3. Regarding the sale of two lots by E.J. Baldwin to the two Studebaker brothers.
58. Articles regarding the orange trees E.J. Baldwin will set out. Monrovia Messenger, March 27, 1890 and November 13, 1890.
59. Article regarding the placing of several thousand acres of land on the Santa Anita Ranch by E.J. Baldwin. Monrovia Messenger, January 8, 1891.
60. Lucky Baldwin's Ranch: a Southern California paradise of sixteen thousand acres. (Description of the ranch). The Daily Constitution, March 22, 1877.
61. It was too much. (Description of the ranch). Chicago Daily Tribune, May 25, 1877.
62. Lucky Baldwin's Ranch. Chicago Daily Tribune, June 17, 1879. Description of the acreage, trees, fruits, etc.
63. Lucky Baldwin's 'Arcadia': establishes sporting city on Santa Anita Ranch in defiance of strenuous opposition. New York Times, June 23, 1903. Arcadia is incorporated, and it promises to be the "sportiest" place in the country, despite opposition from the State Anti-Saloon League. The town is located on Baldwin's ranch of 18,000 acres.
64. "A Corner in Arcady," a chapter copied from History of Pasadena and the San Gabriel Valley California, Vol. 1 (1930) by Harold Carew.
Subjects
History-Rancho Santa Anita (1875-1909)-Elias J. Baldwin
Physical Description
2 folders]
Item ID
111AF
Collection
Subject Files
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Items regarding Santa Clara

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 7, 1968 p. 1 (bridge)
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 7, 1968 p. 1 (bridge)
Subjects
Streets - Santa Clara
Item ID
4284AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia police believe they put a dent in the local distribution of cocaine and marijuana with the arrest last week of an Arcadian, his son and daughter.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 11, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 11, 1987
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Drug Trafficking
Item ID
1474AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Candidate Joseph Scurto sees City Council race as first step.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 12, 1984
Pages
p. 1
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 12, 1984
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Council - Elections - 1984
Scurto, Joseph III
Item ID
1100AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Joseph Lopez, Arcadia's new Director of Public Works, has 28 years of public works experience.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 23, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 23, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
City Employees - Lopez, Joseph
Item ID
1157AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Sondra Elkins and her sons begin their new life together.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 27, 1983
Pages
p. A-1
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 27, 1983
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Elkins, Sondra
Item ID
1515AN
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Joseph Scurto III Tuesday afternoon filed his nomination papers for a position on the Arcadia City Council.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 2, 1984
Pages
p. 1
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 2, 1984
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Council - Elections - 1984
Scurto, Joseph III
Item ID
1098AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Items regarding Baldwin Stocker

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 6, 1964 p. 1 (article and architectural drawing)
October 15, 1964 p. 1 (Valley Forge Freedom Award)
March 1, 1970 p. 1 ( " )
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 6, 1964 p. 1 (article and architectural drawing)
October 15, 1964 p. 1 (Valley Forge Freedom Award)
March 1, 1970 p. 1 ( " )
Subjects
Schools - Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Item ID
4204AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Marilyn Morrison, community relations director for Methodist Hospital, and John Joseph, chairman of the Senior Citizens Commission have been named Arcadia Citizens of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 30, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 30, 1980
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Citizen of the Year - 1980
Morrison, Marilyn
Joseph, John
Item ID
963AN
Collection
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At the Board of Education meeting there was some discussion of the Space Utilization Committee's recommendation to close two elementary schools, Bonita Park and Baldwin Stocker. Robert Kladifke, a member of the committee, objected to closing the newest and most educationally modern school in the district, Baldwin Stocker. Two public hearings are scheduled.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 13, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 13, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Schools - Closure
Item ID
2664AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Dorothy Sherrell has been waitressing at the same Arcadia restaurant for 25 years. The restaurant has had four different owners during that time. At a surprise party in her honor, friends and customers gave her a paid vacation, her first in 20 years.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 26, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 26, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Sherrell, Dorothy
Item ID
3209AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Milt Sonnevik, School Principal at Baldwin Stocker for 20 years, has announced his plans to retire.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 11, 1986
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 11, 1986
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Schools - Employees - Sonnevik, Milt
Item ID
2877AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Two elementary schools, Bonita Park and Baldwin Stocker, have been recommended for closure by the Space Utilization Committee. The Board of Education will analyze the recommendations and schedule public hearings before making a decision.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 9, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 9, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Schools - Closure
Item ID
2663AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The Board will decide May 11 which two of four elementary schools to close next fall. Bonita Park is the most likely candidate for closure. Comments pro and con on the four schools under consideration (Santa Anita, Holly Ave., Bonita Park and Baldwin Park) are given.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 30, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 30, 1981
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Closure
Item ID
2672AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Petitions are being circulated that are aimed at thwarting the possible closure of two elementary schools. The savings would amount to only .7% of an $18 million school budget - not enough to justify closing the schools, according to the parents of students at Bonita Park and Baldwin Stocker.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 18, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 18, 1980
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Schools - Closure
Item ID
2667AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Todd Dickson, a 12-year-old student at Baldwin Stocker School, has won a trip to Spain. Parade Magazine conducted a contest for news carriers across the country. Todd joins 139 other carriers for his two week trip.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 29, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 29, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Dickson, Todd
Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Item ID
1432AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Friends of the Arcadia Library and their guests will gather on Thursday, May 26 to hear Sandy Snider, whose topic will be "Elias Jackson 'Lucky' Baldwin: California Visionary," the title of her latest book, at the Arcadia Library.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 18, 1988
Pages
p. C-1 photo
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 18, 1988
Pages
p. C-1 photo
Subjects
Friends of the Arcadia Public Library
Item ID
1649AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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"Unique Alumni Group Welcomes Former Baldwin Era Residents" by Helen Schrader. Ernest Schultz and his twin sisters Freda Schultz and Hilda Schultz, who were residents of early Arcadia and former students of the little school at the corner of Huntington Drive and Santa Anita, reunite and talk about life and schools in the early 1900s, including Arcadia's first school in the old packing house on the Baldwin Ranch. They recalled that the eighth grade teacher Miss Jeanette Said taught in English and Spanish since many students only spoke Spanish. News clipping. See also: Arcadia file "People," item number 2 clipping which includes a photo.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 2, 1964
Pages
p. 1
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 2, 1964
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Arcadia schools - history
Schultz, Ernest
Schutlz, Freda
Schultz, Hilda
Baldwin Ranch
Said, Jeanette
Item ID
29788AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Voters will decide winners of council races on Tuesday. Candidates as they appear on ballot are Robert C. Harbicht, Johanna A.M. Hofer, Joseph Scurto III, Charles E. Gilb, Charles Chivetta Sr., Joanna R. Bruno, Mary Young, Craig Lucas. City Clerk Christine Van Maanen is running unopposed.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 8, 1984
Pages
p. 1

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