1. Peach Blossom Festival. Packet on all aspects of the first festival. March 14, 1949. 2. Souvenir program cover of the first festival March 26, 1949. 3. The annual peach blossom festival. undated page from the program. 4. Second Peach Blossom festival. Packet including program and newspap…
1. Peach Blossom Festival. Packet on all aspects of the first festival. March 14, 1949.
2. Souvenir program cover of the first festival March 26, 1949.
3. The annual peach blossom festival. undated page from the program.
4. Second Peach Blossom festival. Packet including program and newspaper clippings. March 25, 1950.
5. Invitation to the first annual peach blossom festival. March 26, 1949.
6. Peach festival made fellowship bloom. Arcadia Tribune July 20, 1978.
7. Festive city awaits big day (second annual peach blossom festival). Entire issue of Arcadia Tribune March 23, 1950.
8. A few pictorial highlights of the second peach blossom festival. Arcadia Tribune March 30, 1950 p.3, p.10.
9. Queen, princesses get ready for peach blossom festival; enthusiasm grows for fete. Arcadia Bulletin March 11, 1950, p.2.
10. Official program from the Third Annual Arcadia Peach Blossom Festival, March 31, 1951. See middle for photo of the Peach Blossom Queen candidates for 1951: Bobbie Nichols, Anne Antista, Dorothy Daniels, Shirley Robey, Gretchen Kambeitz, Donna Gilmour, Diane Dotson, Joan Herscher.
11. Peach Blossom Time in Arcadia--original sheet music and lyrics written for Peach Blossom Festival by Elizabeth Graeme and given to the Library on 11/15/1981 by Lynn Stubblefield, whose mother was one of the founders of the Festival.
12. Peach Blossom Festival purple ribbon. No date.
13. History of the Peach Blossom Festival, written by John McCrea (Jack McCrea), February 12, 2016.
Group of people on grassy area, some in costumes. A youngster dressed as an old-fashioned child is standing near left of photo eating cotton candy. This is part of Peach Blossom Festival festivities.
Automobile with sign on it reading:GENERAL CHAIRMAN. Man driving has on a pseudo-Spanish gentleman's hat. There are 4 people seated on curb watching this portion of Peach Blossom Festival Parade.
Three youngsters riding their horses along parade route for March 1949 Peach Blossom Festival Parade. They are passing approximately 27 West Huntington Drive, as the sign for Barbour's Preserving Co. is visible above the canopy.
View north across Santa Anita Race Track parking lot toward San Gabriel Mountains with three members of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Posse mounted for Peach Blossom Festival.
What appears to be an American Legion Girl's Drum & Bugle Corps marching on Huntington Drive near Santa Anita Race Track parking lot during Peach Blossom Festival.
Wagon pulled by eight horses in parade on Huntington Drive to celebrate Peach Blossom Festival. Location of team is on Huntington Drive near Santa Anita parking lot near Club House.
Group dressed in period costume for Peach Blossom Festival. Left to right: H.T. Michler, Hortense Seymour (first chairman), DeeDee Deaton, C. Loree "Jack" Russell (Mayor).
Stage Coach pulled by two horses on Huntington Drive near the Club House as part of Peach Blossom Parade. Stage coach has printed on it: ARROWROCK STAGE LINE.
A handsomely painted wagon, for the Peach Blossom Parade, bearing SANTA ANITA on side, pulled by 4 work horses, is passing by a building with a sign for BARBOUR'S PRESERVING CO. City Directory locates this business at 27 1/2 Huntington Drive.
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.
Group shown gathering for Diamond Jubilee Breakfast. Man in white suit with hat is H.T.Michler who had been chairman of one of the early Peach Blossom Festivals held in Arcadia. Others not identified.
Flood damage on N. Santa Anita Avenue. The front end of a car is just visible in the left foreground. A sign nailed to a tree reads "STRAWBERRIES FOR SALE." The San Gabriel mountains are seen in the background.