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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.

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Peach Blossom Festival

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166AF

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1. "William Wolfskill - the first man to raise oranges commercially in California." Magazine source and date unknown.

2. Notes from visit with Marcella Palethorpe, great-granddaughter of William Wolfskill, March 3, 1980. Present were Arcadia Librarian Pat McAdam and Sandy Snider of the Los Angeles Count Arboretum.

3. "Wolfskill paid $20,000 for rancho in 1865." Arcadia Tribune, December 8, 1977 by Anna Wallace.

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History-Rancho Santa Anita (1865-1872)-William Wolfskill

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1. "The well-known rancho, Santa Anita." An article from the book, California Ranchos and Farms, 1846-1862, published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1967.

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History-Rancho Santa Anita (1858-1865)-William Corbitt and Albert Dibblee

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108AF

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