Sheep grazing beneath trees and apparently alongside a body of water (note extreme lower right section of photo). Believed to be on Rancho Santa Anita. Caption beneath one copy reads: "A pastoral scene on Santa Anita Rancho in 1890, just north of present Colorado Place."
Volume I no. 1 issue of first Arcadia newspaper, THE ARCADIA BULLETIN. Paper included an article on the opening of Clara Villa which opened May 3, 1904. The paper has photos of five members of the Board of Trustees (now City Council) and also one of Arcadia's first City Marshall, Elmer Anderson and his brother, Charles Anderson, City Treasurer.
Photo ad for White City-Arcadia. Sign on wall calls it a resort. Photo shows lady and child in light carriage with fourteen people standing nearby. Beneath photo it reads: BALDWIN MUSIC HALL-THE BEST MUSICAL COMEDY AND VAUDEVILLE-EVERY EVENING. Banner between trees reads BIG BARBEQUE ----(not clear) BAND AND ORCHESTRA ----(not clear). (Barbecue?)
Leo Bertolina (on left) and Jim Newton standing under a clump of pine trees drinking from bottles. There is a horse standing beyond trees. Back of card says:"area is just north of Foothill near First Avenue."
Elks barbecue (or Mason's) held at "Y" at Colorado Place and Huntington Drive. Man in middle is Leo Charles Bertolina. Donor wrote on back of original:"Note Baldwin caretaker in right background." (We do not see him.) Large roasting pits covered to keep heat in, are seen in the foreground.
Photo showing wrecked automobile and a portion of the control tower alongside tracks near First Avenue and railroad crossing. Information on back of photo identifies it as Ben Newman's wrecked Buick hit by Santa Fe train.
Photo reduction of p.13 pt. I of November 28, 1911 Los Angeles Times newspaper. Contains photo with caption describing fire which totally destroyed Oakwood Hotel on November 26, 1911, a Sunday night.
Clara Baldwin Stocker at the House of Mirrors at Coney Island. She is seen in reflection five times, seated at a table. Handwritten at bottom of photo is "Coney Island 1914."
Clara Baldwin Stocker is seated in the back of a motor car, wearing a hat. The man behind the steering wheel is probably her husband, Harold Stocker. There are two other unidentified people at the rear of the vehicle and one unidentified woman seated on the running board in the front right corner of the photo. Handwriting on the bottom of the photo reads, "August 11th 1914."
Clara Baldwin Stocker's home on the north side of Foothill Blvd. between Baldwin and Santa Anita. Two stone pillars with light fixtures on top are visible on either side of the driveway. Handwritten note on bottom left of photo reads, "Oaks 1915".
Clara Baldwin Stocker is seated at the head of a table on the extreme right. Three women and one man are seated at the table, facing the camera. A man is standing at the left head of the table, arm raised with a knife in his hand. This man is possibly Harold Stocker. Clara's butler is seen to the right of the floral centerpiece. Handwritten note along bottom of the photo reads "Oaks Barbecue May 14 1915." The "Oaks" was the name for Clara's home.
Clara Baldwin Stocker is standing on the left wearing a hat, Walter McGinley is standing in the middle wearing a suit with hat and an unidentified woman is standing to the right, also wearing a hat. All three are standing on a mock railroad car with the words "RENO SPECIAL" on the left where Clara is standing. Handwriting on the photo appears to say, "May 20th 1916."
A large group is pictured sitting or standing near entrance to Sturtevant Camp dining room. (Camp was one of many in San Gabriel Mountains; it was up Big Santa Anita Canyon.) In back row, on left, man in dark shirt and tie next to pillar, is John C. Juvinall of Monrovia.
View across swimming pool built for the men of Ross Field Balloon School by Anita Baldwin and the community. It was on possibly opening day as there are throngs of guests looking on. This was located where present parking lot of Elks building is located. H.F.Paden in 1978 told us there was also a pool formed of stone in what is now County Park area which was an officers' pool.
Home and office of Dr. Fletcher Sanborn on NE corner of First and Wheeler. Note his professional sign on the lawn. There is chicken-wire fence showing in front. This house had many lives; its last was home for H.O.Y. Clinic until this was torn down about 1977.