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Fireplace in dining room at Anoakia. The carving over fireplace is Baldwin Family Crest. Tiffany chandelier-type light fixtures. Note: inscription on back of photo by Eunice Easely, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

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Date: 1977

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Date: 1977

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 80

Collection: Photographs

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Dining room at Anoakia. Hand carved panel over fireplace is Baldwin Family Crest. Tiffany light fixtures, wood paneled room. Silver bowl on table.

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Date: November 1976, photo by David McAdam

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Date: November 1976, photo by David McAdam

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 20

Collection: Photographs

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Closeup of fireplace in the dining room at Anoakia, showing carved panel over mantle which is the Baldwin family crest and Tiffany light fixtures detailed in photo #34.

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Date: November 1976, photo by David McAdam

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Date: November 1976, photo by David McAdam

Subjects: Anoakia; Tiffany, Louis Comfort

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 35

Collection: Photographs

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Fireplace in library at Anoakia showing handmade tiles created by Ernest Batchelder. Chair with lamp.

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Date: November 1976, photo by David McAdam

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Date: November 1976, photo by David McAdam

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 19

Collection: Photographs

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Anita Baldwin's bedroom at Anoakia. Shows twin beds, vanity, fireplace, hardwood floors, chairs.

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Date: 1976

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Date: 1976

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 b&w

ID: 26

Collection: Photographs

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Native granite stone fireplace (stone from big Santa Anita wash) in Jinks Room or recreation room at lowest level at Anoakia. Note small sections of murals done by Maynard Dixon for this room, shown on either side of fireplace.

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Date: November 1976

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Date: November 1976

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 40

Collection: Photographs

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Fireplace and nook at Anoakia, just outside office in east wing of house. Architect's drawings on wall for proposed development of property.

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Date: November 1976, photo by David McAdam

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Date: November 1976, photo by David McAdam

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 61

Collection: Photographs

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View of portion of living room at Anoakia, sometimes called Peacock Room. Ernest Batchelder tiles in fireplace appear to have colors like a peacock. Tiffany light fixtures. Andirons.

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Date: 1977

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Date: 1977

Subjects: Anoakia; Tiffany, Louis Comfort; Batchelder, Ernest

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 77

Collection: Photographs

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Dragon fountain across front entrance of Anoakia. Note: inscription on back of photo by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

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Date: 1977

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Date: 1977

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 82

Collection: Photographs

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Entrance to Anoakia. Bas relief in back of lily pond. Note: inscription on back of photo done by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

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Date: 1977

1 image

Date: 1977

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 72

Collection: Photographs

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View of glass terrace outside west wing of Anoakia. Note: inscription on back of photo done by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

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Date: 1977

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Date: 1977

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 75

Collection: Photographs

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Stairway to second floor at Anoakia. Carved screen stands on landing. Note: inscription on back of photo by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

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Date: 1977

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Date: 1977

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 81

Collection: Photographs

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Detail of peacock etched in glass entry door at Anoakia. Note: inscription on back of photo done by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin. Inscription reads: Anoakia-Home of Anita Baldwin, Arcadia, CA. 1977. Etched peacock on door leading to Peacock Room.

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Date: 1977

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Date: 1977

Subjects: Anoakia; Peacocks; Tiffany, Louis Comfort

Physical Description: 8x10 color vertical

ID: 73

Collection: Photographs

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View up front stairs at Anoakia, with balustrade to front entrance. Bas relief above pond. Note: inscription on back of photo done by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

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Date: 1977

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Date: 1977

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 76

Collection: Photographs

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Portion of terrace by west wing of Anoakia. Door is one of three that lead to loggia across entrance to mansion. Note: inscription on back of photo done by Eunice Easely, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

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Date: 1977

1 image

Date: 1977

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 78

Collection: Photographs

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Portion of Maynard Dixon Indian murals in Anoakia Indian Hall. Painted about 1913. Stairs lead to second floor. Note: inscription back of photo done by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

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Date: 1977

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Date: 1977

Subjects: Anoakia; Dixon, Maynard

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 79

Collection: Photographs

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View of loggia across front of Anoakia. Lights showing on floor come through from bowling alley below. Door at left side of photo leads to office in east wing. Note: inscription on back done by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

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Date: 1977

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Date: 1977

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 74

Collection: Photographs

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Arcadia Police Department personnel (three men and one woman) in front of fireplace.

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Date: 1940s or 1950s

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Date: 1940s or 1950s

Subjects: Arcadia Police Department

Physical Description: 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 b & w

ID: 1797c

Collection: Photographs

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Anoakia

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Contents: 1. "Famous Santa Anita Rancho." News clip, October 10, 1914. Original in archives. 2. "The building of an ideal California rancho." Out West, May/June, 1914. 3. "Anoakia - where no harm shall..." Pasadena Daily News, circa 1915? 4. "The art of Maynard Dixon." International Studio, May, 1915…

Contents: 1. "Famous Santa Anita Rancho." News clip, October 10, 1914. Original in archives.; 2. "The building of an ideal California rancho." Out West, May/June, 1914.; 3. "Anoakia - where no harm shall..." Pasadena Daily News, circa 1915?; 4. "The art of Maynard Dixon." International Studio, May, 1915.; 5. "Anoakia, home of Anita Baldwin." News clip, August 3, 1934.; 6. Santa Anita Rancho. Anoakia Breeding Farm Private Catalogue, 1916. Black cover. Two copies in Archives.; 7. Santa Anita Rancho Los Angeles County California Anita M. Baldwin. Original brochure (black cover with red Maltese cross) describing the animals and crops on Santa Anita Rancho. Photocopy of descriptive brochure.; 8. First annual sale of registered hogs. October 24, 1916. Original is missing from Archives since August 1987.; 9. "Fabulous estate converted into a school." Pasadena Star News, July 18, 1954.; 10. Anoakia - name. Handwritten card giving one opinion.; 11. "Anoakia property." News clip, January 19, 1975.; 12. Environmental impact report of development of property (DRAFT). November, 1975. 135+ pages.; 13. "Anoakia annexation." News clip, January 23, 1975.; 14. "Anita Baldwin's Arcadia estate." San Gabriel Valley Tribune, July 11, 1976.; 15. Rancho Village. Dinner-dance program given at Anoakia in 1975. Excellent floor plan and room description. Two copies.; 16. "Mundy mail." Arcadia Tribune, January 15, 1976.; 17. "Association to race." Arcadia Tribune, January 22, 1976.; 18. "Estate transformed to girl's school." Arcadia Tribune, September 4, 1941. Photocopy.; 19. Anoakia inventory. 1916. Copied from original at Huntington Library.; 20. Anoakia kennels. Letterhead, 1917.; 21. Anoakia stationery. Letterhead, 1921.; 22. Anita Baldwin purchases plants from the New York State Building at the Panama Pacific Exposition. San Francisco, 1915.; 23. 23a. Anoakia background. Spring, circa 1977. 23b. Anoakia Background, March 1, 1977, slight revision from 23a. 23c. Letter to Arcadia Historical Society from Lowry B. McCaslin January 19, 1977, with accompanying letter dated December 22, 1976 to the Planning Commission of the City of Arcadia, item 23d.; 24. "Anoakia: a quiet place 'where no harm shall befall'." Arcadia Tribune, July 6, 1978.; 25. "For all time." News photo of the Daughters of the American Revolution placing a historical marker. Arcadia Tribune, May 27, 1979.; 26. "Telegram adds another chapter to Baldwin saga." Arcadia Tribune, August 26, 1979.; 27. "Stately homes of California II: Anoakia," by Porter Garnett. Sunset Magazine, January 1914.; 28. "Will follow Italian types." Los Angeles Times, September 26, 1912, pt. 5, p. 26.; 29. "Unique among homes of America's rich." Los Angeles Times, September 21, 1913, pt. II, p. 7.; 30. Anoakia - Tiffany Catalog (light fixtures). No date. Copied from original owned by Lowry McCaslin, owner of Anoakia, 1991.; 31. Interview with secretary of Mr. Lowry McCaslin, owner of Anoakia beginning circa 1942. See also Oral History folder, item #8.; 32. "Report on the Anoakia property and mansion and its historical significance." Memorandum from Community Development Administrator Donna Butler to the Arcadia Mayor and City Council. December 6, 1994.; 33. Minutes of the Arcadia City Council, December 6, 1994. Approval of staff communication with owner Lowry McCaslin regarding the condition and historical significance of the Anoakia property.; 34. Letter to Lowry B. McCaslin, McCaslin Properties, February 21, 1995. City of Arcadia Development Services Department requested that a video and related photographs of Anoakia be included in the City's historical records.; 35. Obituary of Lowry B. McCaslin, owner of Anoakia since the 1940s. Los Angeles Times, August 11, 1995.; 36. "Plans for development force school from idyllic campus." Los Angeles Times (Home Edition), June 28, 1990 (on-line).; 37. Note - For information regarding Arthur B. Benton, Architect for Anoakia, see also Architects (Benton, Arthur B.) folder.; 38. Correspondence from Mark McCaslin to Arcadia City Council re: Anoakia property, dated June 13, 1996 and July 10, 1996.; 39. Program. Senior Ring Ceremony. Anoakia Hall. April 18, 1968.; 40. "The West on walls: Maynard Dixon and the McClaughry Murals," California State Library Foundation Bulletin. Summer 1998. several articles about Maynard Dixon murals being placed in the State Library.; 41. Arcadia City Planning Commission meeting minutes November 9, 1999 regarding the Anoakia estate.; 42. Anoakia Residential Planned Development - Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR), C.U.P. 99-004 and Vesting Tentative Map 52745. Staff Report for the Arcadia City Planning Commission prepared by the Development Services Department, November 9, 1999.; 43. Consideration of Final Map No. 52745 for the Anoakia Residential Planned Development Project at 701 West Foothill Boulevard. Staff Report to Mayor and City Council prepared by the Development Services Department. August 15, 2000.; 44. Two pages from Sotheby's Auction Catalog showing Tiffany light fixtures and hanging light from Anoakia. March 10, 2005 catalog pp. 94-95.; 45. Sotheby's 20th Century Decorative Arts catalog (in color), New York, March 10, 2005. See pages 94-95 for Tiffany light fixtures from Anita Baldwin's Anoakia estate.; 46. Color printout of a 1978 photograph, taken by Sandy Snider in 1978, of the fountain with dragon, originally located at Anoakia estate. Dragon was stolen, but fountain base (bowl) currently located at Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage.; 47. Wine Tasting at Anoakia, September 26, 1986. Copy of invitation from Friends of the Arcadia Public Library, description of various rooms inside Anoakia Mansion located at 758 Anoakia Lane, hand drawn map, Arcadia Library Association Wine Tasting Notes.

Subjects: Anoakia

Physical Description: 2 folders

Item ID: 8AF

Collection: Subject Files

Anoakia.

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Start Date: 1912

End Date: 1921

Contents: Anoakia, 715 North Baldwin Avenue. Site Plan 1912-1921

Start Date: 1912

End Date: 1921

Contents: Anoakia, 715 North Baldwin Avenue. Site Plan 1912-1921

Subjects: Anoakia.

Location: History Room

Box Number: Box 65

Shelf Number: Shelf E6

Item ID: 379AF

Collection: Subject Files

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Fireplace in dining room at Anoakia. The carving over fireplace is Baldwin Family Crest. Tiffany chandelier-type light fixtures. Note: inscription on back of photo by Eunice Easely, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

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Dining room at Anoakia. Hand carved panel over fireplace is Baldwin Family Crest. Tiffany light fixtures, wood paneled room. Silver bowl on table.

Images

Closeup of fireplace in the dining room at Anoakia, showing carved panel over mantle which is the Baldwin family crest and Tiffany light fixtures detailed in photo #34.

Images

Fireplace in library at Anoakia showing handmade tiles created by Ernest Batchelder. Chair with lamp.

Images

Anita Baldwin's bedroom at Anoakia. Shows twin beds, vanity, fireplace, hardwood floors, chairs.

Images

Native granite stone fireplace (stone from big Santa Anita wash) in Jinks Room or recreation room at lowest level at Anoakia. Note small sections of murals done by Maynard Dixon for this room, shown on either side of fireplace.

Images

Fireplace and nook at Anoakia, just outside office in east wing of house. Architect's drawings on wall for proposed development of property.

Images

View of portion of living room at Anoakia, sometimes called Peacock Room. Ernest Batchelder tiles in fireplace appear to have colors like a peacock. Tiffany light fixtures. Andirons.

Images

Dragon fountain across front entrance of Anoakia. Note: inscription on back of photo by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

Images

Entrance to Anoakia. Bas relief in back of lily pond. Note: inscription on back of photo done by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

Images

View of glass terrace outside west wing of Anoakia. Note: inscription on back of photo done by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

Images

Stairway to second floor at Anoakia. Carved screen stands on landing. Note: inscription on back of photo by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

Images

Detail of peacock etched in glass entry door at Anoakia. Note: inscription on back of photo done by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin. Inscription reads: Anoakia-Home of Anita Baldwin, Arcadia, CA. 1977. Etched peacock on door leading to Peacock Room.

Images

View up front stairs at Anoakia, with balustrade to front entrance. Bas relief above pond. Note: inscription on back of photo done by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

Images

Portion of terrace by west wing of Anoakia. Door is one of three that lead to loggia across entrance to mansion. Note: inscription on back of photo done by Eunice Easely, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

Images

Portion of Maynard Dixon Indian murals in Anoakia Indian Hall. Painted about 1913. Stairs lead to second floor. Note: inscription back of photo done by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

Images

View of loggia across front of Anoakia. Lights showing on floor come through from bowling alley below. Door at left side of photo leads to office in east wing. Note: inscription on back done by Eunice Easley, secretary to Lowry McCaslin.

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Arcadia Police Department personnel (three men and one woman) in front of fireplace.

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