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View from Campus Drive looking toward front entry of Arcadia Unified School District offices at 234 Campus Drive. The offices here closed on April 4, 2014 and this building was demolished on July 7, 2014. The school district offices moved to a new location at 150 S. 3rd Avenue on April 4, 2014 and then opened to the public on April 14, 2014.

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Date: April 1963

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Date: April 1963

Subjects: Arcadia Unified School District

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1036

Collection: Photographs

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View toward mountains and Sierra Madre School. Approximately 21 youngsters are seen on the grounds. Fourth person from left appears to be the teacher. It is noted in the ANNALS OF SIERRA MADRE, that Anita Baldwin and other Arcadia youngsters attended this school before Arcadia had a school of its own.

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Date: c.1885

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Date: c.1885

Subjects: Sierra Madre School

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 990

Collection: Photographs

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Baseball player, possibly Johnny Lindell, talking to a crowd of about 23 boys at an Arcadia Recreation Department event on a baseball field. Johnny Lindell grew up in Arcadia in the 1930s, went to Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte High School and USC, before being signed by the Yankees. He was both a pitcher and outfielder, and played several years in the 1950s for the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League.

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Date: 1950s

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Date: 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Baseball players; Lindell, Johnny

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1872

Collection: Photographs

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View of part of dining area at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese showing more than 74 people seated at long tables, eating. Dining room waiters can be seen throughout the room.

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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: 693

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view taken from about over what became Campus Drive and Arcadia High School, and looking toward (NW) Pasadena and Sierra Madre at foot of San Gabriel Mountains. Photo shows Santa Anita Park Race Track possibly just a few years after opening.

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Date: c.1936

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Date: c.1936

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Arcadia High School; Campus Drive; San Gabriel Mountains; Santa Anita Park-1934-1942

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 629

Collection: Photographs

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Another view of "Smoot Hole" before cleaning up and just before subdividing for El Rancho Village. The name Smoot Hole came from aborted effort of Joe Smoot and Anita Baldwin to get race track built in about this location.

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Date: c.1938

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Date: c.1938

Subjects: Smoot Hole

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 376

Collection: Photographs

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Original description, "Balloon about 30 feet off ground. Balloon has round target-like mark on its side. Under balloon is truck with winch and many men participating in restraining it. Overcast day." Revised description 9/7/2017 by Mark Rosenblum, a local Balloon School historian, identifies it as Rockwell Field in San Diego. It is not Arcadia, but he said the men from the Balloon School at Ross Field in Arcadia, went to San Diego to join in on a public display of the balloons.

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Date: c.1917-1918

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Date: c.1917-1918

Subjects: Balloon School

Physical Description: 3x5 b&w

ID: 167

Collection: Photographs

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Group of new arrivals at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese prepare to unpack belongings into numbered quarters seen behind them. Three cars are being unloaded. About 16 Japanese can be seen in the vicinity. Pepper trees are seen in the area.

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Date: April 1942

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Date: April 1942

Subjects: Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese-Inspection & processing of internees; Santa Anita Park-1942-1945

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 682

Collection: Photographs

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U.S. Post Office, Arcadia branch. Located at 41 E. Wheeler Avenue. Photo taken from parking lot in front of Post Office. This was taken before it was damaged in the Sierra Madre earthquake and subsequently remodeled.

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Date: July 8, 1987

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Date: July 8, 1987

Subjects: Arcadia(City)-History-1980-1989; Postal Service

Physical Description: 4x6 color

ID: 1199

Collection: Photographs

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View inside Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road shortly before the start of construction for the 1995/96 expansion/remodel project. This photo is of the back area (NW corner) of the old technical services area.

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Date: 1995

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Date: 1995

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library, 1990-1999

Physical Description: 4x6 color

ID: 1461

Collection: Photographs

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View (we do not known which direction camera is looking) of Goodyear blimp VOLUNTEER when it stopped at Ross Field Balloon School. About 11 people seen to be gathered near it. On right side of photo is a long barracks-like building.

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Date: 1929

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Date: 1929

Subjects: Balloon School; Aeronautics

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 863

Collection: Photographs

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Baseball player, possibly Johnny Lindell, demonstrating a technique at the grip of a baseball bat to a crowd of boys at an Arcadia Recreation Department event on a baseball field. Some boys are wearing baseball caps and mitts. Bleachers are visible in the left rear of the photo. Johnny Lindell grew up in Arcadia in the 1930s, went to Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte High School and USC, before being signed by the Yankees. He was both a pitcher and outfielder, and played several years in the 1950s for the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League.

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Date: 1950s

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Date: 1950s

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Baseball players; Lindell, Johnny

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1873

Collection: Photographs

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A two-engined plane is seen crashed nose down into "snow". There are about 11 motion picture employees working about. One can see expanses of "snowy" terraine, with San Gabriel Mountains showing above sets. Printed on plane are words: PIERCE+RONDELLE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. Ray Ramuz, who lived across from Arcadia County Park area where this was filmed, said that the "snow" was bleached corn flakes.

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Date: September 1930

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Date: September 1930

Subjects: Motion pictures

Physical Description: 6x10 b&w

ID: 866

Collection: Photographs

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Small Spanish-style home. Address, at the time of the photo (1927) was 2747 Olive Street in Temple City. Numbers on Olive Street were changed and same house in 1980 has street number of 10159. This was girlhood home of Vera Van Houten and her family. The children went all the way through Arcadia schools as this home was in Arcadia School District.

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Date: c.1927

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Date: c.1927

Subjects: Van Iwaarden, Vera Van Houten; Olive Street; Houses

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1041

Collection: Photographs

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View inside Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road shortly before the start of construction for the 1995/96 expansion/remodel project. This photo is of the periodicals area. There is an empty round table and chairs in the center of the area. The old fiction section is visible to the back right.

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Date: 1995

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Date: 1995

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library, 1990-1999

Physical Description: 4x6 color

ID: 1466

Collection: Photographs

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"In her Majesty's Service," Arcadia's float entry in the 1984 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, features Sir Walter Raleigh bowing low to spread his cape before the Queen and her Court of the Arcadia Tournament of Roses Association.

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Date: January 1984

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Date: January 1984

Subjects: Tournament of Roses-Floats-1984

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 1329

Collection: Photographs

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View of covered recreational area of home of Dr. Alva Surber in the Oaks area. A tennis court can be seen, as sell as the deck area around a swimming pool with 2 canvas chairs. This house was at 1014 Hampton Road.

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Date: c.1938

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Date: c.1938

Subjects: Houses; Surber, Alva; Hampton Road

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 834

Collection: Photographs

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View inside Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road shortly before the start of construction for the 1995/96 expansion/remodel project. This photo is of the old children's reference desk. To the right of the photo, the windows and door lead into the old circulation area.

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Date: 1995

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Date: 1995

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library, 1990-1999

Physical Description: 4x6 color

ID: 1467

Collection: Photographs

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Horse, held by hand of groom who is off picture to the left, standing by horse stables on E.J. "Lucky" Baldwin's Ranch. About 5 men can be seen down the corridor in front of stalls. White rail fencing is seen on extreme right with eucalyptus trees shading area. Picture is on Queen of Diamonds and is labeled Lady Diamond. This photo belongs to the Huntington Library. It is shown here for research only.

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Date: c.1895

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Date: c.1895

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

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 214

Collection: Photographs

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View inside Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road shortly before the start of construction for the 1995/96 expansion/remodel project. This photo is of the back section of the old technical services area, with the open door leading into the Technical Services Supervisor's office.

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Date: 1995

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Date: 1995

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library, 1990-1999

Physical Description: 4x6 color

ID: 1460

Collection: Photographs

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View of part of dining area at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese showing more than 74 people seated at long tables, eating. Dining room waiters can be seen throughout the room.

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Aerial view taken from about over what became Campus Drive and Arcadia High School, and looking toward (NW) Pasadena and Sierra Madre at foot of San Gabriel Mountains. Photo shows Santa Anita Park Race Track possibly just a few years after opening.

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Another view of "Smoot Hole" before cleaning up and just before subdividing for El Rancho Village. The name Smoot Hole came from aborted effort of Joe Smoot and Anita Baldwin to get race track built in about this location.

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Group of new arrivals at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese prepare to unpack belongings into numbered quarters seen behind them. Three cars are being unloaded. About 16 Japanese can be seen in the vicinity. Pepper trees are seen in the area.

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U.S. Post Office, Arcadia branch. Located at 41 E. Wheeler Avenue. Photo taken from parking lot in front of Post Office. This was taken before it was damaged in the Sierra Madre earthquake and subsequently remodeled.

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View inside Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road shortly before the start of construction for the 1995/96 expansion/remodel project. This photo is of the back area (NW corner) of the old technical services area.

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View (we do not known which direction camera is looking) of Goodyear blimp VOLUNTEER when it stopped at Ross Field Balloon School. About 11 people seen to be gathered near it. On right side of photo is a long barracks-like building.

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View inside Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road shortly before the start of construction for the 1995/96 expansion/remodel project. This photo is of the periodicals area. There is an empty round table and chairs in the center of the area. The old fiction section is visible to the back right.

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"In her Majesty's Service," Arcadia's float entry in the 1984 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, features Sir Walter Raleigh bowing low to spread his cape before the Queen and her Court of the Arcadia Tournament of Roses Association.

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View of covered recreational area of home of Dr. Alva Surber in the Oaks area. A tennis court can be seen, as sell as the deck area around a swimming pool with 2 canvas chairs. This house was at 1014 Hampton Road.

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View inside Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road shortly before the start of construction for the 1995/96 expansion/remodel project. This photo is of the old children's reference desk. To the right of the photo, the windows and door lead into the old circulation area.

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View inside Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road shortly before the start of construction for the 1995/96 expansion/remodel project. This photo is of the back section of the old technical services area, with the open door leading into the Technical Services Supervisor's office.

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