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Photo of balloon aloft with basket suspended (there does not appear to be anyone in basket). Taken from approximately 50 feet beneath balloon.

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Date: c.1917-1918

1 image

Date: c.1917-1918

Subjects: Balloon School

Physical Description: 3x5 b&w

ID: 174

Collection: Photographs

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Advertisement for Schulenberg Riding School includes picture of approximately 16 mounted people.

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Date: 1928

1 image

Date: 1928

Subjects: Schulenberg Riding School; Recreation

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1180

Collection: Photographs

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Advertisement photographed from Arcadia City Directory showing information on Schulenberg Riding School.

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Date: c.1927

1 image

Date: c.1927

Subjects: Recreation; Schulenberg Riding School

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1113

Collection: Photographs

Images

Group at Arcadia County Park for a love-in. In foreground are three young people dancing; young man of the group is facing camera with his hands extended outward.

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Date: June 4, 1967

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Date: June 4, 1967

Subjects: Social life and customs; Arcadia(City)-History-1960-1969; Arcadia County Park

Physical Description: 7x10 b&w

ID: 1018

Collection: Photographs

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Photo shows field planted in rutabagas by Adele Strutzenberg's father at 1802 S. Santa Anita. Field extended from Santa Anita to Second Avenue.

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Date: c.1920

1 image

Date: c.1920

Subjects: Agriculture; Strutzenberg, Louis

Physical Description: 2x4 b&w

ID: 383

Collection: Photographs

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First community dial office in the Bell system was located in this 29 ft. x 33 ft. building at 19 East Alice. It belonged to Southern California Telephone Company.

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Date: c.1928

1 image

Date: c.1928

Subjects: Telephone

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 206

Collection: Photographs

Images

John McCoy (who was station agent at Arcadia Santa Fe Station) pictured on bicycle with device for riding it along rail of railroad so he could inspect rails. His young son George is pictured beside him on a tricycle. Locomotive is on tracks.

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Date: c.1900

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Date: c.1900

Subjects: McCoy, John; McCoy, George; Railroads-Arcadia Santa Fe Station; Railroads-Arcadia Railroad Station

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 511

Collection: Photographs

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Interior Arcadia Police Department building at 250 W. Huntington Drive. Female employee in APD uniform, possibly a dispatcher, sitting at a telephone switchboard and communications panel, using rotary dial telephone and writing. Also seen are a manual typewriter, microphone, and the time

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Date: late 1950s

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Date: late 1950s

Subjects: Arcadia Police Department; Police woman

Physical Description: 8 x 10 b & w

ID: 1753

Collection: Photographs

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Fourteen officers on duty in Washington D.C. Only one identified is Capt. Thomas A. Grant, Quartermaster at Ross Field Balloon School in 1919 (on extreme left, front). Identification on back of photo is reversed, given as from within the photo.

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Date: c.1917-1919

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Date: c.1917-1919

Subjects: Balloon School; Grant, Thomas A

Physical Description: 6x8 b&w

ID: 1153

Collection: Photographs

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Southern Pacific Railroad freight station located at First and Santa Clara Streets. We were told in 1978 that this building was moved to Travel Town in Griffith Park (Los Angeles). This photograph belongs to the Huntington Library. It is shown here for research only.

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Date: c.1930's

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Date: c.1930's

Subjects: Railroads

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 243

Collection: Photographs

Images

Panorama of Santa Anita Grandstand and area just to the SW of it. There are numerous people in the photograph as though the track were operating.

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Date: 1939

1 image

Date: 1939

Subjects: Santa Anita Park-1934-1942

Physical Description: 3x10 b&w

ID: 556

Collection: Photographs

Images

Program from three Children's Theater productions photographed.

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Date: c. 1950's

1 image

Date: c. 1950's

Subjects: Theater

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1118

Collection: Photographs

Images

Photo of Arcadia's 50th Anniversary Ball program cover.

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Date: August 13, 1953

1 image

Date: August 13, 1953

Subjects: Centennial celebrations,etc.-Golden Jubilee, 1953

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 1129

Collection: Photographs

Images

View showing main entrance to Pony Express Museum. Sign on extreme left reads: This building moved from the old mining town of Bear Valley...etc. There is a sign designating entrance and indicating 25 cent fee. On right side of photo is shown a Black man carved which may have been a mast head of a ship.

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Date: c.1940s

1 image

Date: c.1940s

Subjects: Pony Express Museum

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 466

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of cover of the MUSIC MAN program from the High School production of this musical.

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Date: c.1969

1 image

Date: c.1969

Subjects: Arcadia High School; Theater

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1119

Collection: Photographs

Images

Photo of cover of the souvenir program from the First Annual Peach Blossom Festival.

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Date: March 26, 1949

1 image

Date: March 26, 1949

Subjects: Peach Blossom Festival

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1123

Collection: Photographs

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Paintings which were part of the Arcadia Public Library art loan program.

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Date: c.1961

1 image

Date: c.1961

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library, 1961-1989

Physical Description: 3x5 color

ID: 1519

Collection: Photographs

Images

Chief Roy Nakamura became Arcadia’s 30th Police Chief and its first of Asian-American descent on January 9, 2021. Captain Nakamura began his career with the Arcadia Police Department in 1992 as a Police Officer. As an Officer, he was assigned to Patrol and worked as a Field Training Officer, as well as being assigned to the Detective Bureau. As Detective, he was assigned to the Forgery and Fraud Unit and completed his Detective Bureau assignment in the Crimes Against Persons Unit. He was promoted to Sergeant in 2002 and worked as a Field Supervisor until he was transferred to Personnel and Training. In 2009, Captain Nakamura was promoted to Lieutenant, working various assignments under the Operations and Administration Divisions within the Department, including Watch Commander, Detective Bureau Commander, Field Training Officers Program Commander, and Force Training Unit Commander. In 2019, he was promoted to Captain. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cal Poly Pomona.

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Date: 2021

1 image

Date: 2021

Subjects: Arcadia Police Department; Nakamura, Roy; Police chiefs

Physical Description: color printout, digital, see P:\Library Photos\images

ID: 2292

Collection: Photographs

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Entrance to Harry Ainsworth Ranch which was just to east of intersection of Santa Anita and Orange Grove Avenue. In this view we are on ranch property looking west through gate toward town of Sierra Madre. Tall eucalyptus are on Santa Anita Avenue. Car is driving through stone-based pillars of gate. Wistaria vine in blossom covers frame over entry.

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Date: c.1916

1 image

Date: c.1916

Subjects: Ainsworth Ranch

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1074

Collection: Photographs

Images

Photo of an unidentified jockey who rode for E.J."Lucky" Baldwin.

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Date: c.1902

1 image

Date: c.1902

Subjects: Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 406

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of balloon aloft with basket suspended (there does not appear to be anyone in basket). Taken from approximately 50 feet beneath balloon.

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Advertisement for Schulenberg Riding School includes picture of approximately 16 mounted people.

Images

Advertisement photographed from Arcadia City Directory showing information on Schulenberg Riding School.

Images

Group at Arcadia County Park for a love-in. In foreground are three young people dancing; young man of the group is facing camera with his hands extended outward.

Images

Photo shows field planted in rutabagas by Adele Strutzenberg's father at 1802 S. Santa Anita. Field extended from Santa Anita to Second Avenue.

Images

First community dial office in the Bell system was located in this 29 ft. x 33 ft. building at 19 East Alice. It belonged to Southern California Telephone Company.

Images

John McCoy (who was station agent at Arcadia Santa Fe Station) pictured on bicycle with device for riding it along rail of railroad so he could inspect rails. His young son George is pictured beside him on a tricycle. Locomotive is on tracks.

Images

Interior Arcadia Police Department building at 250 W. Huntington Drive. Female employee in APD uniform, possibly a dispatcher, sitting at a telephone switchboard and communications panel, using rotary dial telephone and writing. Also seen are a manual typewriter, microphone, and the time

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Fourteen officers on duty in Washington D.C. Only one identified is Capt. Thomas A. Grant, Quartermaster at Ross Field Balloon School in 1919 (on extreme left, front). Identification on back of photo is reversed, given as from within the photo.

Images

Southern Pacific Railroad freight station located at First and Santa Clara Streets. We were told in 1978 that this building was moved to Travel Town in Griffith Park (Los Angeles). This photograph belongs to the Huntington Library. It is shown here for research only.

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Panorama of Santa Anita Grandstand and area just to the SW of it. There are numerous people in the photograph as though the track were operating.

Images

Program from three Children's Theater productions photographed.

Images

Photo of Arcadia's 50th Anniversary Ball program cover.

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Photo of cover of the MUSIC MAN program from the High School production of this musical.

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Photo of cover of the souvenir program from the First Annual Peach Blossom Festival.

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Paintings which were part of the Arcadia Public Library art loan program.

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Photo of an unidentified jockey who rode for E.J."Lucky" Baldwin.

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