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Single Pacific Electric Railway car (#1126) with destination card reading Monrovia-Glendora. Photographed on tracks in Arcadia at approximately First Avenue. Pacific Electric control tower is to right of car.

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Date
c.1941

  1 image

Date
c.1941
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Railroads
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
391
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Pacific Electric Car #1238 with destination sign reading Arcadia. People are seen sitting at open windows.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs906
Date
1928

  1 image

Date
1928
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Physical Description
7x10 b&w
ID
899
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Pacific Electric Train #1147 destined for Arcadia-Monrovia pictured on tracks not very far east of downtown Los Angeles.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs907
Date
c.1948

  1 image

Date
c.1948
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
900
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

View east along Pacific Electric tracks showing Santa Anita Specials waiting for the races to conclude. This photo belongs to Southern California Edison Co. Historical Collection. It is shown here for research only.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs397
Date
January 1, 1941

  1 image

Date
January 1, 1941
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Railroads
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
395
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Car #331 of Pacific Electric pictured very close-up. It is close enough to notice the advertising cards inside car above seats. Car appears to be very early one. This photo belongs to the Los Angeles County Arboretum. It is shown here for research only.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs398
Date
c.1930

  1 image

Date
c.1930
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Railroads
Physical Description
8x10 color
ID
396
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Pacific Electric control tower near First Street and Santa Fe tracks. The car on the tracks probably is one of the Santa Fe self-propelled cars that ran from Los Angeles to San Bernardino. View to the northwest.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs396
Date
c.1945

  1 image

Date
c.1945
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Railroads
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
394
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

The library does not own a print of this negative. A print of this, along with #1384, appear in p. 68 of WHERE RANCH AND CITY MEET. They are of a Pacific Electric excursion brochure, circa 1905. This negative is of the narrative, descriptive pages.

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Date
original dated c.1905

  1 image

Date
original dated c.1905
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Baldwin Ranch
Physical Description
3 1/2 x 5 1/2 negative
ID
1385
Collection
Photographs
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The library does not have a print of this negative. A print of this, along with #1385, appears on p. 68 of WHERE RANCH AND CITY MEET. They are of a Pacific Electric excursion brochure, circa 1905. This negative is of the front cover of the brochure, called "Monrovia and Baldwin's Ranch."

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Date
original dated c.1905

  1 image

Date
original dated c.1905
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Baldwin Ranch
Physical Description
3 1/2 x 5 1/2 negative
ID
1384
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Copy of 1 1/2 pages from the racing program for Santa Anita Park, April 13, 1909. Right hand page is an ad for Pacific Electric.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1178
Date
1909

  1 image

Date
1909
Subjects
Santa Anita Park-1907-1912
Railroads-Pacific Electric Railway
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1169
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Photo shows P.E. #430 out-bound to Arcadia, Monrovia and Glendora along side P.E. #714 from the Oak Knoll Line at the end of the 4 track main lines at Huntington Drive and El Molino near San Marino and Alhambra boundary line. This photo belongs to Historical Collection of Southern California Edison Co. It is shown here for research only.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs403
Date
1950 or 1951

  1 image

Date
1950 or 1951
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Railroads
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
401
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Santa Anita Race Track Special waiting for returning race-goers at the end of the day's racing. Note Arcadia County Park Golf Course in view on right side of photo. This photo belongs to Southern California Edison Co. Historical Collection. It is shown here for research only.

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Date
1950

  1 image

Date
1950
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Railroads
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
399
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Engine #10 and two cars outbound as the Santa Anita Special to the Race Track. This is on Huntington Drive near Baldwin Avenue. This photo belongs to Southern California Edison Historical Collection. It is shown here for research only.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs395
Date
1947

  1 image

Date
1947
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Railroads
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
393
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Santa Anita Park P.E. shelter looking NE toward mountains. Note tower in extreme right which was on top of Carpenter's Drive-In located on the large curve where Huntington Drive and Colorado come together. This photo belongs to Southern California Edison Historical Collection. It is shown here for research only.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs394
Date
c.1950

  1 image

Date
c.1950
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Railroads
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
392
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View from south of Huntington Drive looking at a Santa Anita Special disgorging its passengers at the Race Track. The people are crossing tracks and Huntington and entering the Race Track near present gate across from City Hall. This photo belongs to Southern California Edison Co. Historical Collection. It is shown here for research only.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs399
Date
c.1948

  1 image

Date
c.1948
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Railroads
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
397
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View northeast over Pacific Electric Railroad. Ross Field Balloon School occupies portion on right side of photo over to the railroad tracks. The street marking its northern boundary would be Huntington Drive. The large rectangle just north of this street was Rancho Resevoir, converted into a swimming pool. The principal street marking east boundary of Balloon School property running north to south across this photo about at middle, is Santa Anita Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs634
Date
November, 1929

  1 image

Date
November, 1929
Subjects
Aerial Photo Collection
Aerial views
Balloon School
Pacific Electric Railway
Railroads
Ross Field
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
630
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Engine #1107 and one other car standing on tracks. The destination reads: Arcadia-Monrovia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs402
Date
c.1947

  1 image

Date
c.1947
Subjects
Pacific Electric Railway
Railroads
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
400
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View of group of men leaving for military service from Temple City Pacific Electric station. Mrs. Van Iwaarden took this photo from inside their car after having said goodbye to her husband. She said this facility served Arcadia and Temple City.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1051
Date
1943

  1 image

Date
1943
Subjects
Arcadia(City)-History-1940-1949
Van Iwaarden, Vera Van Houten
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1043
Collection
Photographs
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A doctor checks hand of evacuees as they line up near Pacific Electric Railroad cars which brought them to Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Military personnel look on.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs671
Date
April 1942

  1 image

Date
April 1942
Subjects
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese-Health & hygiene
Santa Anita Park-1942-1945
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
667
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Side view of abandoned caboose of a train. Train is marked with Pine Bluff SP 151 (clearer in photo 2258A). Located on train tracks near First Avenue, between Santa Clara Street and Saint Joseph Street in Arcadia, California. Photo by Terry Miller.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs2379
Date
2001

  1 image

Date
2001
Subjects
First Avenue
Railroads
Southern Pacific
Trains
Physical Description
4x6 b&w
ID
2257B
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Front view of abandoned caboose of a train. Train is marked with Pine Bluff SP 151 (clearer in photo 2258A). Looking west on train tracks near First Avenue, between Santa Clara Street and Saint Joseph Street in Arcadia, California. Photo by Terry Miller.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs2381
Date
2001

  1 image

Date
2001
Subjects
First Avenue
Railroads
Southern Pacific
Trains
Physical Description
4x6 b&w
ID
2257D
Collection
Photographs
Images
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