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Aerial view looking east across Santa Anita Park taken from a position just west of Baldwin Avenue, which is seen at bottom of photo. Huntington Drive appears exactly in center of photo just east of race track. The 210 Foothill Freeway enters area in upper right portion of picture and exits at left side in upper left portion.

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Date: c.1979

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Date: c.1979

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; 210 Foothill Freeway; Huntington Drive; Santa Anita Park-1945-1980

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 989

Collection: Photographs

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View across Arcadia taken from Chantry Flats Road at night. Long diagonal streak starting near bottom of lower right, marks Santa Anita Avenue.

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Date: c.1952

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Date: c.1952

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Arcadia(City)-History-1950-1959; Chantry Flats Road

Physical Description: 5x10 b&w

ID: 1150

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view south from Chantry Flats Road over the still-developing upper Highlands section of Arcadia. View is across Arcadia toward the Puente Hills. Santa Anita Park Race Track is seen in the center. Santa Anita Wash is seen on extreme left.

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Date: c.1965

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Date: c.1965

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Arcadia(City)-History-1960-1969; Chantry Flats Road; Santa Anita Wash

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 949

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view looking north across Santa Anita Park from a position over Arcadia County Park. Large infield crowd is evident and all parking areas are filled. Arcadia Methodist Hospital shows in lower left part of photo and Arcadia Police facility is seen in lower right. The 210 Foothill Freeway cuts across photo near the top.

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Date: c.1979

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Date: c.1979

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; 210 Foothill Freeway; Arcadia Methodist Hospital; Santa Anita Park-1945-1980

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 988

Collection: Photographs

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Looking east over barracks and main building at Ross Field. Tree-lined street cutting across photo at far side of field is Santa Anita Avenue. The oval of the race track built by E.J."Lucky" Baldwin and which opened in 1907 can clearly be seen on right. Broad E/W street seen on far left is Huntington Drive.

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Date: c.1928

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Date: c.1928

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Balloon School; Santa Anita Avenue

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 861

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view north. Main tree-lined street is Santa Anita Avenue. Most of the orange grove in center of photo was owned by Jaspar Teague family. They had built a circular art gallery on their property at 1380 South Santa Anita Avenue. The large buildings north of Teague's and to the west of Santa Anita Avenue are chicken houses. Duarte Road is the east/west street across photo near top of photo.

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Date: November 1929

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Date: November 1929

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Agriculture; Duarte Road; Orange groves; Poultry; Santa Anita Avenue; Teague, Jaspar

Physical Description: 6x10 b&w

ID: 641

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view, of the white A-Frame roof of Santa Anita Church (address is 226 West Colorado Boulevard, Arcadia, California). A six-sided, hexagon building near Santa Anita Church is the Fireside Room and Fellowship Hall, which is part of the Santa Anita Church. Any use of this image must be credited "Photograph by David Stevens. Copyright David Stevens."

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Date: 1990?

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Date: 1990?

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; David Stevens Collection; Santa Anita Church

Physical Description: color image, digital, see i:images

ID: 2278

Collection: Photographs

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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.

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Date: November, 1929

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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

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Aerial view looking north over flooded Santa Anita Wash looking upstream. Street cutting across photo closest to bottom is Huntington Drive. The next crossing upstream carries Santa Fe Railroad track. The last crossing that is clearly visible is Pacific Electric Railroad bridge. North/south street crossing Huntington Drive nearest wash would be Fifth Avenue. Foothill Boulevard is just barely visible near top of photo.

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Date: March 3, 1938

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Date: March 3, 1938

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Fifth Avenue; Flood control; Foothill Boulevard; Huntington Drive; Railroads; Santa Anita Wash

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 809

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view looking northeast across Santa Anita Park toward mountains. Note training track called Anita Chiquita has been added (lower left corner), open grandstand has been added to west of covered stand. Note, too, that work has begun to change Balloon School site to Arcadia County Park. Santa Anita Avenue is tree-lined street running entire width of photo about middle of print.

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Date: 1937

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Date: 1937

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Anita Chiquita training track; Arcadia County Park; Balloon School; Santa Anita Avenue; Santa Anita Park-1934-1942

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 979

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view south of Balloon School and surrounding part of valley. Large tree-lined street running from center of photo toward lower left edge of photo is Santa Anita. Tree-lined street coming in on right edge of photo about two inches from bottom of photo and intersecting Santa Anita, is Duarte Road. Note wash that at present is just west of Arcadia High School. Rio Hondo Wash runs east to west across middle of photo.

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Date: c.1918

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Date: c.1918

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; U.S. Army Balloon School see Balloon School; Balloon School

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 152

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view, of the white A-Frame roof of Santa Anita Church (address is 226 West Colorado Boulevard, Arcadia, California). A six-sided, hexagon building near Santa Anita Church is the Fireside Room and Fellowship Hall, which is part of the Santa Anita Church. The church property goes all the way to Colorado Place (including "The Village Apartments," formerly the Frontier Motel, which the church purchased in 1972) and includes the parking lot and the building at the top of the photo, the Margaret Stevens Center. Any use of this image must be credited "Photograph by David Stevens. Copyright David Stevens."

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Date: 1990?

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Date: 1990?

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; David Stevens Collection; Santa Anita Church

Physical Description: color image, digital, see i:images

ID: 2279

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view looking west over Santa Anita Park. Photo was taken from about over intersection of Colorado Place and Huntington Drive. Note area that was to become Los Angeles County Arboretum across top of photo. Note an open Grandstand has been added to the west of original covered one. There is a small dirigible in lower right corner carrying a sign that seems to read:modern motel. Present Baldwin Avenue would run where road in this photo is seen parallel to top of photo.

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Date: December 28, 1935

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Date: December 28, 1935

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Santa Anita Park-1934-1942

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 975

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view looking west across Santa Anita Park from a position about Santa Anita Avenue just north of Huntington Drive. In the upper right portion of the photo can be seen the extensive earthwork done for the track Anita Baldwin and Joe Smoot planned to build. That vast area now is entirely built with homes and apartments and is called Santa Anita Village. Present-day Baldwin Avenue would follow the line shown by the Ranch Road bisecting the photo from right to left just east of the track abandoned by Anita Baldwin and Joe Smoot.

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Date: c.1934

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Date: c.1934

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Santa Anita Park-1934-1942; Smoot Hole

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 977

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view toward NE. Plane is over property of Charles W. Stewart (10 acres), and Jaspar Teague (10 acres), at 1320 S. Santa Anita Avenue, which is directly under the plane. Next street east is First Avenue, then Second Avenue, the Fourth Avenue. Reservoir is at corner of Valnett Avenue and Second Avenue and was owned by Walnut Grove Mutual Water Company (Valnett Avenue was first through street south of Duarte Road at this time and became Camino Real).

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Date: November 1929

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Date: November 1929

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Camino Real; Duarte Road; First Avenue; Fourth Avenue; Second Avenue; Santa Anita Avenue (South); Stewart, Charles W.; Teague, Jaspar; Valnett Avenue

Physical Description: 6x10 b&w

ID: 640

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view, of Santa Anita Park Race Track in the upper left quadrant (address is 285 West Huntington Drive) and the white A-Frame roof of Santa Anita Church (address is 226 West Colorado Boulevard) in the lower right quadrant. A six-sided, hexagon building seen to the left of Santa Anita Church, is the Fireside Room and Fellowship Hall, which is part of the Santa Anita Church. Any use of this image must be credited "Photograph by David Stevens. Copyright David Stevens."

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Date: 1990?

1 image

Date: 1990?

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; David Stevens Collection; Santa Anita Church; Santa Anita Park

Physical Description: color image, digital, see i:images

ID: 2274

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view north up Santa Anita Avenue. Note Chantry Flats Road on mountain near right side of photo. This view was taken from just south of Huntington Drive. This image belongs to Arcadia Historical Society.

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Date: November 1926

1 image

Date: November 1926

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Chantry Flats Road; Santa Anita Avenue

Physical Description: 6x10 vertical

ID: 583

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view of Arcadia. Photo is dated in lower left corner and has descriptions and arrows all along the border.

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Date: June 11, 1936

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Date: June 11, 1936

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1539

Collection: Photographs

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Santa Fe Railroad tracks cut diagonally across photo from east to west. Huntington Drive bisects photo from east to west approximately at center of photo. Arcadia County Park appears in lower left corner, showing baseball diamond. Santa Anita Wash is shown on right side of photo.

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Date: c. early 1950's

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Date: c. early 1950's

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Arcadia County Park; Huntington Drive; Railroads

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 621

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view looking west from a position approximately over Santa Fe railroad tracks between First Avenue and Second Avenue. Street closest to camera is First Avenue, running north/south, and we see its intersection with Wheeler Avenue in lower left portion of photo. Almost vacant lot on northwest corner of Wheeler Avenue and First Avenue is where Sawmill Restaurant was built in about 1977 (Sawmill Restaurant closed in early 1990's). Foundation work on South side of Wheeler Avenue at corner of First Avenue is for medical building which became 65 N. First Avenue. (Former site of Arcadia Public Library until 1961.) Post Office is largest building in center of the block on north side of Wheeler Avenue. Large white area is parking area for Santa Anita Park Race Track.

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Date: July 1976

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Date: July 1976

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; First Avenue; Postal Service; Santa Anita Park-1945-1980; United States Post Office; Wheeler Avenue

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 636

Collection: Photographs

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View across Arcadia taken from Chantry Flats Road at night. Long diagonal streak starting near bottom of lower right, marks Santa Anita Avenue.

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Aerial view south from Chantry Flats Road over the still-developing upper Highlands section of Arcadia. View is across Arcadia toward the Puente Hills. Santa Anita Park Race Track is seen in the center. Santa Anita Wash is seen on extreme left.

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Aerial view north up Santa Anita Avenue. Note Chantry Flats Road on mountain near right side of photo. This view was taken from just south of Huntington Drive. This image belongs to Arcadia Historical Society.

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Aerial view of Arcadia. Photo is dated in lower left corner and has descriptions and arrows all along the border.

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Santa Fe Railroad tracks cut diagonally across photo from east to west. Huntington Drive bisects photo from east to west approximately at center of photo. Arcadia County Park appears in lower left corner, showing baseball diamond. Santa Anita Wash is shown on right side of photo.

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