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Arcadia Public Library Board meeting. Left to right: Mrs. Herman Snider, Chair; Mr. J.L. Young; Mr. Dexter Jones; Mrs. Herbert Opel; and Mrs. Gene Gregg. Standing is Grace Clark, City Librarian.

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Date: c.1956

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Date: c.1956

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library Board of Trustees; Snider, Mrs. Herman; Young, J.L.; Jones, Dexter; Opel, Mrs. Herbert; Gregg, Gene; Clark, Grace

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 345

Collection: Photographs

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Portion of porch of Queen Anne Cottage showing wooden decorative details.

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Date: c.1970

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Date: c.1970

Subjects: Queen Anne Cottage

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 496

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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Arcadia Public Library Board photographed at meeting. Left to right: Dexter Jones, Mrs. Herman Snider, Gene Gregg (standing), Chairman J.L. Young, City Councilman Conrad Reibold (standing), Helen Kinnison, City Librarian Grace Clark.

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Date: c.1959

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Date: c.1959

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library Board of Trustees; Jones, Dexter; Snider, Mrs. Herman; Young, J.L.; Kinnison, Helen; Clark, Grace; Reibold, Conrad

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 346

Collection: Photographs

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Mr. Aloyosius Mauch is seen loading blackberries packed in wooden crates onto flatbed truck. A dog sits on top of one crate. Mr. Mauch's sons helped run the five acre ranch which was at Palm Avenue and Holly Avenue. Information provided by son Henry (86 years old in 1980) and his wife.

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Date: 1926

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Date: 1926

Subjects: Agriculture; Mauch, Aloyosius

Physical Description: 6x10 b&w

ID: 994

Collection: Photographs

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Two photographs mounted with one sign on each side. Top photo shows 6 balloons with officers at Ross Field. Sign on left reads:"U.S. Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California". Sign on right reads "Established June 11, 1918."

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Date: unknown

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Date: unknown

Subjects: Balloon School

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1275

Collection: Photographs

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Miss Eleanor Gilbert is seated at circulation desk, with view east out large double wooden front doors. Coming through the door is a mother with her son.

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Date: 1953

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Date: 1953

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959; Gilbert, Eleanor

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 308

Collection: Photographs

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Two women and a man stand by a counter holding wooden milk crate with milk bottles in it. They are filling a thermos with a clear liquid. Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese.

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Date: April 1942

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Date: April 1942

Subjects: Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese-Food service; Santa Anita Park-1942-1945

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 694

Collection: Photographs

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Hugo Reid Adobe as it appeared in 1903. This photo shows it to have been what appears to be wooden siding and shingle roof with wide porch as altered by E.J. "Lucky" Baldwin.

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Date: 1903

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Date: 1903

Subjects: Hugo Reid Adobe

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 288

Collection: Photographs

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Gene Glasco, City Clerk 2012-2024. Retired in 2024. This photo c. 2020. Gene Glasco is a native Californian and long time resident of Arcadia. Gene attended Highland Oaks Elementary school, First Avenue Junior High School, and is a graduate of Arcadia High School where he lettered in Football and played second chair trombone in the award-winning AHS Marching Band. Gene is Arcadia’s first elected City Clerk that is a graduate of Arcadia High School. Gene served six years in the United States Navy. He spent fourteen months in Vietnam as a Radioman in support of US Navy riverboat activities in the Mekong Delta and is a service-connected disabled Veteran. Gene is an Honor Role graduate of Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo. He attended San Jose State University where he majored in Public Relations with a minor in Asian American History. After thirty years in the foodservice industry, Gene retired from Glasco and Associates, Inc. He also has practiced real estate in Arcadia.

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Date: 2020

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Date: 2020

Subjects: Arcadia High School alumni; City Clerks; Glasco, Gene; Veterans

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

ID: 2293

Collection: Photographs

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Looking upstream along Santa Anita Wash from just above Huntington Drive. Wooden trestle seen upstream carried Southern Pacific tracks. Fencing is seen on left.

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Date: October 26, 1939

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Date: October 26, 1939

Subjects: Santa Anita Wash

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 816

Collection: Photographs

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Small wooden buildings with thatched-appearing roofs standing beneath large oak tree. There are three wagon wheels seen at left. Caption beneath reads: Mexican Quarter of Santa Anita Ranch.

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Date: 1906

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Date: 1906

Subjects: Rancho Santa Anita-1875-1909; Baldwin Ranch

Physical Description: 7x10 b&w

ID: 914

Collection: Photographs

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Portion of Pony Express Museum given to miscellaneous collections. On left wall are what appear to be old photographs. There are many branding irons hanging from the ceiling. There is a large bell in foreground. There is an old doll carriage and a wooden rocker on the floor.

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Date: c.1940s

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Date: c.1940s

Subjects: Pony Express Museum

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 460

Collection: Photographs

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Six men seen gathering grapes; others are seen in background. There are many heavy wooden boxes around. A row of eucalyptus are seen on the left. Caption (partially cut off) reads: Japanese gathering grapes in a vineyard planted by Spanish Fathers.

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Date: 1906

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Date: 1906

Subjects: Rancho Santa Anita-1875-1909; Baldwin Ranch-Japanese workers

Physical Description: 7x10 b&w

ID: 909

Collection: Photographs

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View from center of circulation area toward wooden screen built expressly for new circulation layout, installed at the same time electronic gate was installed. Round area in center of ceiling is directly under "dome" skylight which is visible on exterior shots.

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Date: June 1975

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Date: June 1975

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1960-1989

Physical Description: 3x5 color

ID: 317

Collection: Photographs

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Group pictured in front of the Arcadia Public Library on the occasion of the donation of Chinese language materials to the Library. Pictured L-R: Suzy Huang, Kent Ross, Dr. Sheng Chang, June Fee, unknown, Mrs. Chang, unknown.

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Date: October 9, 1997

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Date: October 9, 1997

Subjects: Huang, Suzy; Ross, Kent; Chang, Sheng; Fee, June; Chang, Min-Mae; Arcadia Public Library, 1990-1999

Physical Description: 4x6 color

ID: 1692

Collection: Photographs

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Baldwin Ranch Store. A large two story building with cupola atop. On wooden siding is painted: Dry Goods Fancy Goods Groceries and Provisions Brandies Wines. It stands under tall eucalyptus trees. Joe Buck, resident, locates it at gate on what is now Old Ranch Road.

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Date: unknown

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Date: unknown

Subjects: Rancho Santa Anita; Stores

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 117

Collection: Photographs

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On Ainsworth Ranch just east of Santa Anita and Orange Grove Avenue. Pictured on left is a wooden garage on stone foundation. Parked near is family Packard Touring car with top down. Beyond can be seen small bridge on Santa Anita Avenue which spanned the Sierra Madre Wash.

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Date: c.1919

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Date: c.1919

Subjects: Santa Anita Avenue; Ainsworth Ranch

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1073

Collection: Photographs

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Four Arcadia police cars, two police motorcycles and five officers near the police station. Background shows Bekins building and a motel on upper left. Per Gene Glasco, the cars are identified as 1958 Ford Fairlane.

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Date: 1950s

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Date: 1950s

Subjects: Arcadia Police Department; Police cars; Police motorcycles

Physical Description: 8 x 10 b & w

ID: 1796

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

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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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Arcadia Public Library Board meeting. Left to right: Mrs. Herman Snider, Chair; Mr. J.L. Young; Mr. Dexter Jones; Mrs. Herbert Opel; and Mrs. Gene Gregg. Standing is Grace Clark, City Librarian.

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Portion of porch of Queen Anne Cottage showing wooden decorative details.

Images

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

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Arcadia Public Library Board photographed at meeting. Left to right: Dexter Jones, Mrs. Herman Snider, Gene Gregg (standing), Chairman J.L. Young, City Councilman Conrad Reibold (standing), Helen Kinnison, City Librarian Grace Clark.

Images

Mr. Aloyosius Mauch is seen loading blackberries packed in wooden crates onto flatbed truck. A dog sits on top of one crate. Mr. Mauch's sons helped run the five acre ranch which was at Palm Avenue and Holly Avenue. Information provided by son Henry (86 years old in 1980) and his wife.

Images

Two photographs mounted with one sign on each side. Top photo shows 6 balloons with officers at Ross Field. Sign on left reads:"U.S. Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California". Sign on right reads "Established June 11, 1918."

Images

Miss Eleanor Gilbert is seated at circulation desk, with view east out large double wooden front doors. Coming through the door is a mother with her son.

Images

Two women and a man stand by a counter holding wooden milk crate with milk bottles in it. They are filling a thermos with a clear liquid. Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese.

Images

Hugo Reid Adobe as it appeared in 1903. This photo shows it to have been what appears to be wooden siding and shingle roof with wide porch as altered by E.J. "Lucky" Baldwin.

Images

Images

Looking upstream along Santa Anita Wash from just above Huntington Drive. Wooden trestle seen upstream carried Southern Pacific tracks. Fencing is seen on left.

Images

Small wooden buildings with thatched-appearing roofs standing beneath large oak tree. There are three wagon wheels seen at left. Caption beneath reads: Mexican Quarter of Santa Anita Ranch.

Images

Portion of Pony Express Museum given to miscellaneous collections. On left wall are what appear to be old photographs. There are many branding irons hanging from the ceiling. There is a large bell in foreground. There is an old doll carriage and a wooden rocker on the floor.

Images

Six men seen gathering grapes; others are seen in background. There are many heavy wooden boxes around. A row of eucalyptus are seen on the left. Caption (partially cut off) reads: Japanese gathering grapes in a vineyard planted by Spanish Fathers.

Images

View from center of circulation area toward wooden screen built expressly for new circulation layout, installed at the same time electronic gate was installed. Round area in center of ceiling is directly under "dome" skylight which is visible on exterior shots.

Images

Group pictured in front of the Arcadia Public Library on the occasion of the donation of Chinese language materials to the Library. Pictured L-R: Suzy Huang, Kent Ross, Dr. Sheng Chang, June Fee, unknown, Mrs. Chang, unknown.

Images

Baldwin Ranch Store. A large two story building with cupola atop. On wooden siding is painted: Dry Goods Fancy Goods Groceries and Provisions Brandies Wines. It stands under tall eucalyptus trees. Joe Buck, resident, locates it at gate on what is now Old Ranch Road.

Images

On Ainsworth Ranch just east of Santa Anita and Orange Grove Avenue. Pictured on left is a wooden garage on stone foundation. Parked near is family Packard Touring car with top down. Beyond can be seen small bridge on Santa Anita Avenue which spanned the Sierra Madre Wash.

Images

Four Arcadia police cars, two police motorcycles and five officers near the police station. Background shows Bekins building and a motel on upper left. Per Gene Glasco, the cars are identified as 1958 Ford Fairlane.

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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