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Three youngsters from Lowen Tucker family stand by trees near a fence. This was along Poplar Lane (so called because it had many Lombardy Poplars along it) on Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin Ranch. Lane led from center of ranch west to training track. L-R: Irna Tucker, Bud Doble, and Vesta Tucker.

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Date: c.1903

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Date: c.1903

Subjects: Reeves, Vesta Tucker; Tucker, Bud Doble; Rohlf, Irna Tucker

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1081

Collection: Photographs

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Portrait photo of Marian (?) Louise Rothe, who was married to Samuel Waterson Eldridge on April 29, 1914 and on September 5, 1914 (2 marriages). See also photo 2169.

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Date: c. 1914

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Date: c. 1914

Subjects: Rothe, Marian (?) Louise

Physical Description: 4x6" b&w

ID: 2168

Collection: Photographs

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Large group of people seated at tables outdoors. Overhead are paper lanterns. Group is at Japanese "community" in Arcadia which apparently was near Holly Avenue below Huntington, for a performance of the MIKADO. Man directly in front (center, no hat) is Ed Ryan, caretaker at Baldwin racetrack. On his lap is his daughter, whom Vesta Tucker Reeves and her sister did not like so they scratched over her photo with a pin. Girl seen over his left shoulder, is Vesta Tucker. The lady next to her is not identified. The girl with the long necklace sitting on the lap of the unidentified lady near Mr. Ryan, is Dextra Baldwin. Small boy on left on Japanese man's lap, is Baldwin M. Baldwin. The man, three figures away from camera in row Dextra is in, is her grandfather, Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin. Large man in light suit just to right of Mr. Ryan, is Mr. Johnson, who owned Johnson's Inn. Seen on extreme right, man with mustache and white hair, is Blas Cuellar, the wine maker.

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Date: c.1907 or 1908

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Date: c.1907 or 1908

Subjects: Japanese; Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"; Tucker, George Lowen; Tucker, Mrs. George Lowen; Reeves, Vesta Tucker; Ryan, Edward; Kamioka, Mr.; Cuellar, Blas; Johnson, Mr.; Baldwin, Dextra; Baldwin, Baldwin M.

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1077

Collection: Photographs

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View of guests and staff at an Author's Tea. Back row: Library Board Member Mrs. John P. Ross, City Librarian Louise DuMond, Library Board Member Helen Kinnison. Front row: author Margaret Richardson, Children's Librarian Mary Louise Fitts, author Hannah Smith. Mrs. Richardson lived in Arcadia and wrote SEVEN LITTLE PIFFLESNIFFS.

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Date: 1952

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Date: 1952

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959; DuMond, Louise; Fitts, Mary Louise; Smith, Hannah; Arcadia Authors-Richardson, Margaret; Kinnison, Helen; Ross, Mrs. John P.

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 299

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

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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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Mayor Martin H. Ormsby on left; City Treasurer, Emma Hainer seated, at center; and City Clerk, Clint Billig, on right are seen in Mrs. Hainer's office in City Hall at First Street and Huntington Drive. Note round wall safe next to her desk. Daughter, Alberta Fluke remembers that the Arcadia Public Library could be seen to the north out of this window.

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Date: believed to be November, 1943 (matches calendar on right)

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Date: believed to be November, 1943 (matches calendar on right)

Subjects: Mayors-Ormsby, Martin H.; Hainer, Emma E.; Billig, Clinton

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1102

Collection: Photographs

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Clara Baldwin Stocker is seated second from the right, with her left hand resting on the shoulder of Melville Lawrence. Mr. Lawrence's wife, Emma Lawrence, is standing behind the group. Seen L-R: Unidentified woman sitting; Emma Lawrence standing; Walter McGinley; Clara Baldwin Stocker; Melville Lawrence. The group is on a boat excursion at Lake Tahoe.

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Date: c.1915-1918

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Date: c.1915-1918

Subjects: Baldwin Stocker, Clara; Lawrence, Emma; Lawrence, Melville; McGinley, Walter

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 1571

Collection: Photographs

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Mayor C. Loree Russell unlocks door of new City Hall at 240 W. Huntington Drive for City Treasurer Emma E. Hainer and City Clerk Dick Ewing.

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Date: c. March 1949

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Date: c. March 1949

Subjects: Hainer, Emma E.; Ewing, Richard C.; Mayors; Russell, C. Loree

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1106

Collection: Photographs

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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.

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Date: 1956

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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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Six police officers pictured beside two automobiles and two motorcycles. Left to right: Louis Jack Richards, Leo Bertolina, Chief A. N. Coberly, Henry W. Haines, Donald Ott, Grady Pardue. They are photographed in front of two story stucco building, probably police facilities in City Hall building that stood at NW corner of First and Huntington Drive.

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Date: Automobile license plate reads 1930

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Date: Automobile license plate reads 1930

Subjects: Police Department; Richards, Louis Jack; Bertolina, Leo; Coberly, A.N.; Haines, Henry W.; Pardue, Grady; Ott, Donald

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w photo is damaged

ID: 430

Collection: Photographs

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Circulation workroom, library staff, Arcadia Public Library at 25 N. First Avenue. Left to right: June Davies, Mary Lou Harbin, Madeline Hopps, Mary Louise Fitts, Hazel Bolton.

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Date: c.1953

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Date: c.1953

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959; Davies, June; Harbin, Mary Lou; Hopps, Madeline; Fitts, Mary Louise; Bolton, Hazel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 312

Collection: Photographs

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Formal photo of Arcadia Police Department. Back row left to right: Ross E. "Med" Cayer, Leo Bertolina, L. Jack Richards (chief of police), Henry W. Haines (father of George, later in charge of Mutuel windows at Santa Anita), Paul Edwards. Motorcycle officers, left to right: Jack Stine, Grady Pardue, Donald Ott. Standing in back: Jim Nellis, Fire Chief. Taken by police station on Wheeler Street. Identified September 9, 1970 by Bill Orr, former Police Chief.

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Date: April 17, 1932

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Date: April 17, 1932

Subjects: Bertolina, Leo; Cayer, Ross E. Med; Edwards, Paul; Haines, Henry W; Ott, Donald; Nellis, Jim M; Pardue, Grady; Police Department; Richards, Louis Jack; Stine, Jack

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 427

Collection: Photographs

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Portrait of Reverend George W. Thomas, minister of the Arcadia Community Church from September 1919-April 1924. He is seen from the chest up, wearing a suit, tie and glasses.

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Date: unknown

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Date: unknown

Subjects: Thomas, George W.; Arcadia Community Church

Physical Description: 4x5 b&w

ID: 1433

Collection: Photographs

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Page 3 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Reads: Colonel W. N. Hensley Jr. Commanding. Negative and print were made for the grant funded Local History Digital Resources Project 2006-2007. A digital image of this photograph is file name: caarpl_111 on LHDRP 2006-2007 Disc 9 of 14. See black box labeled Arcadia History Room Media Box.

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Date: September 1918

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Date: September 1918

Subjects: Balloon School; Hensley, W. N., Jr.

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1859

Collection: Photographs

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Page 4 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Featuring description of U.S. Army Balloon School grounds and photographs of Post Headquarters, Capt. W.H. Carruthers, A.S.S.C; U.S.A., and Major J.A. Baumann, A.S.S.C.; U.S.A. Negative and print were made for the grant funded Local History Digital Resources Project 2006-2007. A digital image of this photograph is file name: caarpl_112 on LHDRP 2006-2007 Disc 9 of 14. See black box labeled Arcadia History Room Media Box.

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Date: September 1918

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Date: September 1918

Subjects: Balloon School; Baumann, J. A.; Carruthers, W. H.

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1858

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of Louis Paulhan flying his Farman plane on its return to Aviation Park after setting an air distance record by flying to circle the Baldwin Ranch and returning to Dominguez Hills. This photograph belongs to the Huntington Library. It is shown here for research only.

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Date: January 1910

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Date: January 1910

Subjects: Aeronautics; Paulhan, Louis

Physical Description: 7x9 b&w

ID: 1131

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

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Date: c.1920

Subjects: Agriculture; Strutzenberg, Louis

Physical Description: 2x4 b&w

ID: 383

Collection: Photographs

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Arcadia Chief of Police Louis Sihler is seen standing in front of a car, leaning with his arm through the open window. He is wearing a uniform shirt and tie with badge.

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Date: c.1944

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Date: c.1944

Subjects: Police Department; Sihler, Louis

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1355

Collection: Photographs

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Tiffany-designed lamps showing California poppy motif. These are in the dining room at Anoakia.

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Date: November 1976

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Date: November 1976

Subjects: Anoakia; Tiffany, Louis Comfort

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 34

Collection: Photographs

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Closeup of fireplace in the dining room at Anoakia, showing carved panel over mantle which is the Baldwin family crest and Tiffany light fixtures detailed in photo #34.

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Date: November 1976, photo by David McAdam

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Date: November 1976, photo by David McAdam

Subjects: Anoakia; Tiffany, Louis Comfort

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 35

Collection: Photographs

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Three youngsters from Lowen Tucker family stand by trees near a fence. This was along Poplar Lane (so called because it had many Lombardy Poplars along it) on Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin Ranch. Lane led from center of ranch west to training track. L-R: Irna Tucker, Bud Doble, and Vesta Tucker.

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Portrait photo of Marian (?) Louise Rothe, who was married to Samuel Waterson Eldridge on April 29, 1914 and on September 5, 1914 (2 marriages). See also photo 2169.

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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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Mayor C. Loree Russell unlocks door of new City Hall at 240 W. Huntington Drive for City Treasurer Emma E. Hainer and City Clerk Dick Ewing.

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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.

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Circulation workroom, library staff, Arcadia Public Library at 25 N. First Avenue. Left to right: June Davies, Mary Lou Harbin, Madeline Hopps, Mary Louise Fitts, Hazel Bolton.

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Portrait of Reverend George W. Thomas, minister of the Arcadia Community Church from September 1919-April 1924. He is seen from the chest up, wearing a suit, tie and glasses.

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Photo of Louis Paulhan flying his Farman plane on its return to Aviation Park after setting an air distance record by flying to circle the Baldwin Ranch and returning to Dominguez Hills. This photograph belongs to the Huntington Library. It is shown here for research only.

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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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Arcadia Chief of Police Louis Sihler is seen standing in front of a car, leaning with his arm through the open window. He is wearing a uniform shirt and tie with badge.

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Tiffany-designed lamps showing California poppy motif. These are in the dining room at Anoakia.

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Closeup of fireplace in the dining room at Anoakia, showing carved panel over mantle which is the Baldwin family crest and Tiffany light fixtures detailed in photo #34.

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