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Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Rd. decorated for Summer Reading Club with 1968 Summer Olympics theme, featuring flags and emblems of various nations. Shows interior architectural details such as arched ceiling, recessed lighting, globe pendant lights and other lighting.

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Date: 1968

1 image

Date: 1968

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1961-1989; Summer Reading Club; Reading programs

Physical Description: 5x3 1/2 color

ID: 2259G

Collection: Photographs

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Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Rd. decorated for Summer Reading Club with 1968 Summer Olympics theme, featuring Olympic rings, flags and emblems of various nations. Shows interior furnishings and details such as globe pendant lights, and shelving

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Date: 1968

1 image

Date: 1968

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1961-1989; Summer Reading Club; Reading programs

Physical Description: 5x3 1/2 color

ID: 2259F

Collection: Photographs

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Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Rd. decorated for Summer Reading Club with 1968 Summer Olympics theme, featuring flags and emblems of various nations. Shows interior furnishings and details such as card catalog, globe pendant lights, file cabinet, seating, shelving.

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Date: 1968

1 image

Date: 1968

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1961-1989; Summer Reading Club; Reading programs

Physical Description: 5x3 1/2 color

ID: 2259D

Collection: Photographs

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Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Rd. decorated for Summer Reading Club with 1968 Summer Olympics theme, featuring flags and emblems of various nations. Shows interior furnishings and details such as recessed lights, midcentury clock, dictionary stand, stools, shelving, bulletin board.

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Date: 1968

1 image

Date: 1968

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1961-1989; Summer Reading Club; Reading programs

Physical Description: 5x3 1/2 color

ID: 2259C

Collection: Photographs

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Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Rd. decorated with Summer Reading Club banner and 1968 Summer Olympics theme with flags and emblems of various nations. Architectural details such as arched ceiling and light fixtures (hanging globe pendant light), and shelving, Mayflower ship model are visible.

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Date: 1968

1 image

Date: 1968

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1961-1989; Summer Reading Club; Reading programs

Physical Description: 5x3 1/2 color

ID: 2259A

Collection: Photographs

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Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Rd. decorated for Summer Reading Club with 1968 Summer Olympics theme, featuring flags and emblems of various nations. Architectural details such as arched ceiling and light fixtures (hanging globe pendant light), and shelving, atlas case, and doors are visible.

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Date: 1968

1 image

Date: 1968

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1961-1989; Summer Reading Club; Reading programs

Physical Description: 5x3 1/2 color

ID: 2259B

Collection: Photographs

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Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Rd. decorated for Summer Reading Club with 1968 Summer Olympics theme, featuring Olympic rings, flags and emblems of various nations. Shows interior furnishings and details such as card catalog, globe pendant lights, file cabinet, seating, shelving, staff person at a rounded information desk.

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Date: 1968

1 image

Date: 1968

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1961-1989; Summer Reading Club; Reading programs

Physical Description: 5x3 1/2 color

ID: 2259E

Collection: Photographs

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View toward paneled wall in Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. The room is decorated for Christmas.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs336

Date: 1955

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Date: 1955

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959

Physical Description: 3x3 color

ID: 334

Collection: Photographs

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Group of youngsters photographed at Christmas party in Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Standing is Children's Librarian Marjorie Hickerson (later, Phelps).

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Date: 1955

1 image

Date: 1955

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959; Phelps, Marjorie

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 302

Collection: Photographs

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Author and illustrator Leo Politi talks to children in Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Children's Librarian Marjorie Hickerson (later, Phelps) is standing in white dress by easel.

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Date: 1954

1 image

Date: 1954

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959; Phelps, Marjorie

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 303

Collection: Photographs

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Large group of youngsters, many sitting on the floor, enjoying a program in Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue.

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Date: c.1955

1 image

Date: c.1955

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959

Physical Description: 4x5 b&w

ID: 297

Collection: Photographs

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View across Children's Wing, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Shows one person at desk, seated, and another standing looking at book. There is shelving along outside walls of room.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs341

Date: 1956

1 image

Date: 1956

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959

Physical Description: 3x5 b&w

ID: 339

Collection: Photographs

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View looking northwest across lawn to front of Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Spanish style building was completed in 1930 and used until new library was built at 20 W. Duarte Road in 1961.

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Date: c.1950

1 image

Date: c.1950

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 337

Collection: Photographs

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View of part of Children's Room at Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Three boys are reading at a table in foreground, one boy on right standing, one man seated at table, one woman standing near center and another standing at back under sign that reads "Good books are true friends."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs309

Date: c.1953

1 image

Date: c.1953

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 307

Collection: Photographs

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Children's Room at Arcadia Public Library at 25 N. First Avenue. Standing left to right: Judith Moore, Mary Lou Fitts, Hazel Boulton, Mary Lou Harbin, Geneva Jones, teacher. In foreground, in white blouse, is Louise DuMond, City Librarian.

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Date: 1952

1 image

Date: 1952

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959; Moore, Judith B.; Gilbert, Eleanor; Fitts, Mary Louise; Bolton, Hazel; Harbin, Mary Lou; DuMond, Louise; Jones, Geneva

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 300

Collection: Photographs

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Marjorie Hickerson (later Phelps), Children's Librarian, with 8 youngsters receiving reading club awards from "Golden Tree."

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Date: c.1952

1 image

Date: c.1952

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959; Phelps, Marjorie

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

ID: 311

Collection: Photographs

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High school students studying in main adult room, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs307

Date: c.1953

1 image

Date: c.1953

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959

Physical Description: 6x9 b&w

ID: 305

Collection: Photographs

Images

View of adult reading room at Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Photo shows 2 men seated, one girl standing in stacks and one mother and child in stacks.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs338

Date: c.1955

1 image

Date: c.1955

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 336

Collection: Photographs

Images

Seated at desk labeled Readers' Advisor is, on left, Judith Boegerhausen (later Mrs. Al Moore) and, on right, Children's Librarian Mary Louise Fitts. Arcadia Public Library 25 N. First Avenue. An enlarged photo is in the oversize drawer.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs456

Date: 1956

1 image

Date: 1956

Subjects: Moore, Judith B.; Fitts, Mary Louise; Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959

Physical Description: 3x5 b&w

ID: 454

Collection: Photographs

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Four women standing in a bay window area of the Arcadia Public Library at 25 N. First Avenue. Left to right: Library staff Mary Lou Harbin, Madeline Hopps, children's author Margaret Richardson, and library staff June Davies. Mrs. Richardson lived in Arcadia and wrote SEVEN LITTLE PIFFLESNIFFS.

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Date: c.1954

1 image

Date: c.1954

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959; Harbin, Mary Lou; Hopps, Madeline; Davies, June; Arcadia Authors-Richardson, Margaret

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w vertical

ID: 301

Collection: Photographs

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Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Rd. decorated for Summer Reading Club with 1968 Summer Olympics theme, featuring flags and emblems of various nations. Shows interior architectural details such as arched ceiling, recessed lighting, globe pendant lights and other lighting.

Images

Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Rd. decorated for Summer Reading Club with 1968 Summer Olympics theme, featuring Olympic rings, flags and emblems of various nations. Shows interior furnishings and details such as globe pendant lights, and shelving

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Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Rd. decorated for Summer Reading Club with 1968 Summer Olympics theme, featuring flags and emblems of various nations. Shows interior furnishings and details such as card catalog, globe pendant lights, file cabinet, seating, shelving.

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View toward paneled wall in Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. The room is decorated for Christmas.

Images

Group of youngsters photographed at Christmas party in Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Standing is Children's Librarian Marjorie Hickerson (later, Phelps).

Images

Author and illustrator Leo Politi talks to children in Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Children's Librarian Marjorie Hickerson (later, Phelps) is standing in white dress by easel.

Images

Large group of youngsters, many sitting on the floor, enjoying a program in Children's Room, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue.

Images

View across Children's Wing, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Shows one person at desk, seated, and another standing looking at book. There is shelving along outside walls of room.

Images

View looking northwest across lawn to front of Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Spanish style building was completed in 1930 and used until new library was built at 20 W. Duarte Road in 1961.

Images

View of part of Children's Room at Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Three boys are reading at a table in foreground, one boy on right standing, one man seated at table, one woman standing near center and another standing at back under sign that reads "Good books are true friends."

Images

Children's Room at Arcadia Public Library at 25 N. First Avenue. Standing left to right: Judith Moore, Mary Lou Fitts, Hazel Boulton, Mary Lou Harbin, Geneva Jones, teacher. In foreground, in white blouse, is Louise DuMond, City Librarian.

Images

Marjorie Hickerson (later Phelps), Children's Librarian, with 8 youngsters receiving reading club awards from "Golden Tree."

Images

High school students studying in main adult room, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue.

Images

View of adult reading room at Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Photo shows 2 men seated, one girl standing in stacks and one mother and child in stacks.

Images

Seated at desk labeled Readers' Advisor is, on left, Judith Boegerhausen (later Mrs. Al Moore) and, on right, Children's Librarian Mary Louise Fitts. Arcadia Public Library 25 N. First Avenue. An enlarged photo is in the oversize drawer.

Images

Four women standing in a bay window area of the Arcadia Public Library at 25 N. First Avenue. Left to right: Library staff Mary Lou Harbin, Madeline Hopps, children's author Margaret Richardson, and library staff June Davies. Mrs. Richardson lived in Arcadia and wrote SEVEN LITTLE PIFFLESNIFFS.

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