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

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Date: c. 1950s

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Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Children; Games

Physical Description: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 b&w

ID: 1909

Collection: Photographs

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Group of at least six boys play marbles on dirt.

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Date: c. 1950s

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Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Children; Games

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 1892

Collection: Photographs

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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.

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Date: 1956

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Date: 1956

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Awards; Children; Games

Physical Description: 4x4 b&w

ID: 1906

Collection: Photographs

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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.

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Date: c. 1950s

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Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1885

Collection: Photographs

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Winners of the Bicycle Rodeo, an event sponsored by Arcadia Police Department and Arcadia Recreation Department, from left to right: Albert Schneider (winner boys 8-14 year old group), Bruce Frazier (winner boys 8 and under), Juanita Curti (winner girls 14 and under), Betsy Bosil (winner girls 8 and under). Pictured behind the children left to right are Police Chief William Orr and Patrolman William Goodman. The Bicycle Rodeo was a contest in bicycle safety and riding skill. Winners received nighttime riding lights and electric horns. The awards were the culmination of bicycle safety instruction offered at Arcadia playgrounds throughout the summer by William Goodman. A similar version of this photograph appeared in Arcadia Tribune, p. 6, August 23, 1956.

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Date: August 1956

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Date: August 1956

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Awards; Bicycle safety; Bosil, Betsy; Children; Curti, Juanita; Frazier, Bruce; Goodman, William; Orr, William; Schneider, Albert

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

ID: 1905

Collection: Photographs

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Arcadia Recreation Department program "Dancing," indoors at County Park. Four girls in ballet poses behind a cluster of four chairs. Many other children also look like participants. Some adults in the audience are visible.

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Date: 1951

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Date: 1951

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Children

Physical Description: 5 1/2 x 6 b&w

ID: 1904

Collection: Photographs

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Winners (two boys and two girls) of a ping pong tournament receive trophy awards from a man, pictured one end of a ping pong table.

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Date: c. 1950s

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Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Awards; Children; Competitions; Contests; Ping pong or table tennis; Sports

Physical Description: 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 b&w

ID: 1902

Collection: Photographs

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Boy plays a tuba, while other children, holding clarinets and trumpets, watch.

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Date: c. 1950s

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Date: c. 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Children; Musicians

Physical Description: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 b&w

ID: 1910

Collection: Photographs

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Winners (one boy and one girl) crowned in the Arcadia Recreation Department "Baby Show."

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Date: c. 1960s

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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

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A crowd, mostly of children, looks on from bleachers at Arcadia Recreation Department event featuring a cowboy doing rope tricks with both hands, and a horse, perhaps a rodeo demonstration, on a baseball field. Photograph by Paul Kennedy Studios, Arcadia, CA.

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Date: c. 1950s (?)

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Date: c. 1950s (?)

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Cowboys; Horseman; Rodeo

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1880

Collection: Photographs

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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

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Date: 1956

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Pets

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1876

Collection: Photographs

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Eisenhower Park, showing swings, children's playground, and wooden picnic tables.

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Date: c. June 1989

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Date: c. June 1989

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Parks

Physical Description: 4 x 6 color

ID: 2035

Collection: Photographs

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Five children in photo outside a school building (?). One boy in the middle is barefoot, wearing cut-off jean shorts, and drinking a can of Shasta Cola. The boy on the right has opened a can but the soda is squirting straight up. Girl on the left reaches into a paper bag. Two onlookers.

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Date: c. 1970s

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Date: c. 1970s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection

Physical Description: 7 1/2" x 9 1/2" b&w

ID: 1888

Collection: Photographs

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Equestrian show jumping, final event of 1984 Olympic Games, will be held at Santa Anita Park race track.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 30., 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: September 30., 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Olympic Games, 1984

Item ID: 2031AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Two adults appear to be giving first aid (bandage) to a boy's scraped elbow.

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Date: July 24, 1952

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Date: July 24, 1952

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Arcadia Recreation Department employees; Children

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

ID: 1907

Collection: Photographs

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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.

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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

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A crowd, mostly of children, looks on from bleachers at Arcadia Recreation Department event, featuring a cowboy doing rope tricks atop a horse, perhaps a rodeo demonstration on a baseball field. Photograph by Paul Kennedy Studios, Arcadia, CA.

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Date: c. 1950s (?)

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Date: c. 1950s (?)

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Cowboys; Horseman; Rodeo

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1881

Collection: Photographs

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Basketball team of 8 unidentified boys, posing in two rows, in an indoor basketball court (gym). They are wearing numbered tank tops and shorts. This photo was in an envelope marked "Forum Basketball February 26, 1971."

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Date: February 26, 1971

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Date: February 26, 1971

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Basketball; Boys

Physical Description: 5 x 6 1/2 b&w

ID: 1917

Collection: Photographs

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Camino Grove School May Festival with a royal court in a procession on the school yard, by Milton K. Bell, photographer. Girls are wearing tiara crowns, boys are wearing capes. Back of photo stamped with date May 19, 1967.

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Date: May 1967

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Date: May 1967

Subjects: Camino Grove School; May Festival; Recreation Department Collection; Schools--Elementary Schools

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1871A

Collection: Photographs

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One boy representing each of the following schools in a group picture: Highland Oarks, Hugo Reid, Camino Grove, Baldwin Stocker, Santa Anita, Longley Way, Bonita Park, Holly Avenue. Each boy is wearing a sports team tee-shirt with school's name and number imprinted. Four boys stand in the back row and four boys kneel in the front.

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Date: 1969

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Date: 1969

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 1883

Collection: Photographs

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

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Group of at least six boys play marbles on dirt.

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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.

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Arcadia Recreation Department program "Dancing," indoors at County Park. Four girls in ballet poses behind a cluster of four chairs. Many other children also look like participants. Some adults in the audience are visible.

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Winners (two boys and two girls) of a ping pong tournament receive trophy awards from a man, pictured one end of a ping pong table.

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Boy plays a tuba, while other children, holding clarinets and trumpets, watch.

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Winners (one boy and one girl) crowned in the Arcadia Recreation Department "Baby Show."

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A crowd, mostly of children, looks on from bleachers at Arcadia Recreation Department event featuring a cowboy doing rope tricks with both hands, and a horse, perhaps a rodeo demonstration, on a baseball field. Photograph by Paul Kennedy Studios, Arcadia, CA.

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Eisenhower Park, showing swings, children's playground, and wooden picnic tables.

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Five children in photo outside a school building (?). One boy in the middle is barefoot, wearing cut-off jean shorts, and drinking a can of Shasta Cola. The boy on the right has opened a can but the soda is squirting straight up. Girl on the left reaches into a paper bag. Two onlookers.

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Equestrian show jumping, final event of 1984 Olympic Games, will be held at Santa Anita Park race track.

Two adults appear to be giving first aid (bandage) to a boy's scraped elbow.

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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.

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A crowd, mostly of children, looks on from bleachers at Arcadia Recreation Department event, featuring a cowboy doing rope tricks atop a horse, perhaps a rodeo demonstration on a baseball field. Photograph by Paul Kennedy Studios, Arcadia, CA.

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Basketball team of 8 unidentified boys, posing in two rows, in an indoor basketball court (gym). They are wearing numbered tank tops and shorts. This photo was in an envelope marked "Forum Basketball February 26, 1971."

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Camino Grove School May Festival with a royal court in a procession on the school yard, by Milton K. Bell, photographer. Girls are wearing tiara crowns, boys are wearing capes. Back of photo stamped with date May 19, 1967.

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