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Children showing off their pets at the Arcadia Recreation Department Pet Show. Sitting from left to right: boy with a duck, girl with a cat, girl with a tortoise, girl with a gerbil (or guinea pig, hamster or rodent?). Standing from right to left: girl with a little monkey left shoulder, girl wearing sunglasses with undetermined pet on her right hand, girl with a pet (possibly a dog) dressed in a cowboy costume, and boy wearing a cowboy hat with his horse. Back of photo is stamped with "Arcadia Police Photo, August 6, 1956."

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Date
1956

  1 image

Date
1956
Subjects
Recreation Department Collection
Pets
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1876
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Recreation Department Easter Egg event. Two boys and a girl seem to have been each awarded an Easter basket by a man. Onlookers are behind a fence. Names listed on back of photo: Jack Wiltse, Georgia Emmett, Ken Scott, James Edward Connor.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1912
Date
April 17, 1952

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Date
April 17, 1952
Subjects
Recreation Department Collection
Children
Connor, James Edward
Easter
Emmett, Georgia
Holidays
Scott, Ken
Social life and customs
Wiltse, Jack
Physical Description
5x7 b&w
ID
1893
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Arcadia Recreation Department Yo-Yo program. Boy on the left is demonstrating a yo-yo trick called "Rock the Baby." Girl on the right is holding a yo-yo. The champion awards sit atop a table between the children. The program might have taken place at County Park because "Co." is written on the back of the photograph. The year 1956 is engraved on the trophies.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1925
Date
1956

  1 image

Date
1956
Subjects
Recreation Department Collection
Awards
Children
Games
Physical Description
4x4 b&w
ID
1906
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Children playing checkers. One girl has a doll beside her. A boy is playing chess next to them.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1928
Date
c. 1950s

  1 image

Date
c. 1950s
Subjects
Recreation Department Collection
Children
Games
Physical Description
3 1/2 x 4 1/2 b&w
ID
1909
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Children at a dance in a gymnasium. Some girls wear big circle skirts and saddle shoes. Many of the boys wear cuffed jeans.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1904
Date
c. 1950s

  1 image

Date
c. 1950s
Subjects
Recreation Department Collection
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1885
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Michael Dougherty of Boy Scout Troop 103 has attained the rank of Eagle Scout. Fewer than two percent of all scouts nationally earn the Eagle rank, the highest honor that can be achieved in the Boy Scouts of America.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1435
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 10, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 10, 1982
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Dougherty, Michael
Item ID
1434AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A young woman dropped off a baby boy at Arcadia Methodist Hospital, exercising her right to surrrender the newborn without fear of prosecution under the Safe Haven law.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 20, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 20, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Methodist Hospital
Safe Haven Law
Item ID
25847AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Children's Librarian Eva Swedstedt, shown giving books to young girl while boy watches. Eva Swedstedt was Children's Librarian from about 1972-1977. Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs367
Date
February 8, 1972

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Date
February 8, 1972
Subjects
Arcadia Public Library-1960-1989
Swedstedt, Eva
Long, Eva-see Swedstedt, Eva
Physical Description
6x6 b&w
ID
365
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Close up of five Board of Trustees for City of Arcadia (now, City Council). Upper left, Hiram Unruh; upper right, Melville Lawrence (manager of Oakwood Hotel). Lower left, Harold Stocker; lower right, George Lowen Tucker; center, E.J.Baldwin. This was from first issue of Arcadia Bulletin.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1096
Date
May 7, 1904

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Date
May 7, 1904
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"
Lawrence, Melville
Stocker, Harold
Tucker, George Lowen
Unruh, Hiram Augustus
Newspapers-Arcadia Bulletin
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1087
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Five children engaged in an eating contest. Their hands are behind their backs and they are eating off a plate on the grass.

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Date
c. 1970s

  1 image

Date
c. 1970s
Subjects
Recreation Department Collection
Physical Description
7 1/2" x 9 1/2" b&w
ID
1887
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Volunteers handling materials in the library behind a book truck. Jean is wearing horn-rimmed glasses and Doris is wearing a plaid jacket. Left-Right: Jean Livingston, Doris Selmer. Friends of the Library.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs2396
Date
1960s

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Date
1960s
Subjects
Friends of the Library
Livingston, Jean
Selmer, Doris
Physical Description
8.5 x 11' B&W
ID
2261
Collection
Photographs
Images
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A boy and girl are shown with live Easter bunnies, with two men and four other children standing around. Hugo Reid statue is in the background at Arcadia County Park. Hugo Reid Statue has since moved to a location between the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage and the Arcadia Community Center. Photograph by Paul Kennedy, Arcadia, CA.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs2192
Date
c. 1950s

  1 image

Date
c. 1950s
Subjects
Recreation Department Collection
Easter
Holidays
Rabbits
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1878A
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Main entrance to buildings at Pony Express Museum, showing one woman on left hand side of photo, one man and two young boys near right side of photo.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs488
Date
June 1952

  1 image

Date
June 1952
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Physical Description
3 1/4 x 4 1/2
ID
484
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View east shows two balloons aloft over Arcadia and San Gabriel Valley. It is possible that first river up from bottom of photo is Rio Hondo Wash. Some of trees along Santa Anita appear to be in extreme lower right of photo. Tree-lined street showing in extreme lower left of photo is Duarte Road. Second river coming into photo about five inches up from bottom of photo would be San Gabriel River.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs154
Date
c.1918

  1 image

Date
c.1918
Subjects
Aerial Photo Collection
Aerial views
Balloon School
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
153
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Winners (one boy and one girl) crowned in the Arcadia Recreation Department "Baby Show."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1922
Date
c. 1960s

  1 image

Date
c. 1960s
Subjects
Recreation Department Collection
Awards
Children
Competitions
Contests
Physical Description
6 1/2 x 7 1/2 b&w
ID
1903
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Some members of Arcadia Christian Academy's boys basketball team acted as heroes after a 65 year-old woman lost control of her Mercedes and ran it through a group of children and adults in Eagle Rock, where the team attended a game. The boys ran to the scene and helped lift the car off two children and an adult. There were no fatalities.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33429
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 7, 2002
Pages
p. 1, 21
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 7, 2002
Pages
p. 1, 21
Subjects
Arcadia Christian Academy--boys basketball
Heroes
Item ID
33625AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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A gunman driving an off-white pick-up truck attempted to kidnap two 12 year old Arcadia girls as they walked through the parking lot of Camino Grove Elementary School on Sunday afternoon.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 25, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 25, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
86AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Boy plays a tuba, while other children, holding clarinets and trumpets, watch.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1929
Date
c. 1950s

  1 image

Date
c. 1950s
Subjects
Recreation Department Collection
Children
Musicians
Physical Description
3 1/2 x 4 1/2 b&w
ID
1910
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Children, both boys and girls, approximately ages 6 to 8, on a playground, jumping rope. One girl is bouncing a ball.

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Date
c. 1950s

  1 image

Date
c. 1950s
Subjects
Recreation Department Collection
Children
Games
Physical Description
5x7 b&w
ID
1891
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Local area boy Justin Liu (photograph) helped initiate a school supply drive to help children at Foothill Family Service. He is a member of Boy Scout Troop 351.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28915
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Boy Scout Troops --Eagle Scouts
Liu, Justin
Foothill Family Service
Item ID
29106AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
Less detail

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