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Newspaper page from sports section of L.A. Sunday Times reporting opening of Santa Anita Park, built by "Lucky" Baldwin and opened December 1907. See more legible hard copy in VF Baldwin, Elias J.-Horses and horse racing.

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Date: December 8, 1907

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Date: December 8, 1907

Subjects: Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing; Santa Anita Park-1907-1912

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 551

Collection: Photographs

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Photographically reproduced copy of an old newspaper photo taken in 1936 which is an aerial view looking north west over original race track built by Baldwin. In lower right corner can be seen Santa Anita Ave lined with Eucalyptus. On lower left, one can see present Campus Drive. Across top third of photo, one can see Huntington Drive. Note how small the trees are that line the street.

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Date: 1936

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Date: 1936

Subjects: Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing; Huntington Drive; Santa Anita Park-1907-1912; Balloon School

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 858

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of front page of school newspaper called the Cub vol.2no.7.

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Date: November 15, 1935

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Date: November 15, 1935

Subjects: Schools-History-1880's-1950

Physical Description: 3x5 b&w

ID: 710

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of first page of Graduation Issue of The Cub, first Arcadia School newspaper.

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Date: January 23, 1947

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Date: January 23, 1947

Subjects: Schools-History-1880's-1950

Physical Description: 3x5 b&w

ID: 711

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of front cover of Vosburgh Oil Corporation promotional brochure for an oil drilling operation which was entered into with high hopes. Oil was not found. (see Vertical file for copy of entire brochure in Arcadia-Business and industry.)

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Date: 1925

1 image

Date: 1925

Subjects: Business & industry; Vosburgh Oil Corporation

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 890

Collection: Photographs

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Page 17 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Featuring photographs of U.S. Balloon School officers, all lieutenants. H.G. Verbeck, Joseph Sullivan, John Hahn (or Rahn?), Harry W. Warner, Harold K. Hine, Newton B. Drury, Milton E. Keyser, James A. Christie, Ed Welch, Hiram B. Lillie, F.C. Wiggins C.O., A.M. Lynch, Dunlap C. Clark, George Whistler, Lloyd Graybill, and Ed Burke. 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_118 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; Burke, Ed; Christie, James A.; Clark, Dunlap C.; Drury, Newton B.; Graybill, Lloyd; Hahn, John or Rahn, John; Hine, Harold K.; Keyser, Milton E.; Lillie, Hiram B.; Lynch, A.M.; Sullivan, Joseph; Verbeck, H.G.; Warner, Harry W.; Welch, Ed; Whistler, George; Wiggins, F.C.

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1852

Collection: Photographs

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Page 15 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Featuring photographs of U.S. Balloon School officers, all lieutenants. L. Heath, J.J. Fitzgerald, H.C. Hahlbeck, Stanley W. Hahn, George K. Barnes, Robert Drake, Rolla W. Wybrant, William D. Geiger, Harry R. Rafferty, Wayne Burbank, T.N. Wrenn, George Parish, William Barnard, Charles N. White, William B. Gemmill, and William Simpson. 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_117 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; Barnard, William; Barnes, George K; Burbank, Wayne; Drake, Robert; Fitzgerald, J. J.; Geiger, William D.; Gemmill, William B.; Hahlbeck, H.C.; Hahn, Stanley W.; Heath, L.; Parish, George; Rafferty, Harry R; Simpson, William; White, Charles N.; Wrenn, T. N.; Wybrant, Rolla W.

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1853

Collection: Photographs

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Close up of ad in first Arcadia newspaper, Arcadia Bulletin. The ad is for the Bonita Hotel. Ben Newman is listed as proprietor.

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Date: May 7, 1904

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Date: May 7, 1904

Subjects: Bonita Hotel; Newspapers-Arcadia Bulletin

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1086

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of article in newspaper (probably LA Times) on auto accident at the unbridged Santa Anita Wash just east of Arcadia.

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Date: December 15, 1907

1 image

Date: December 15, 1907

Subjects: Santa Anita Wash

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 589

Collection: Photographs

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View north toward mountains from Huntington Drive near Golden West at the time of the opening of Santa Anita Village Tract. Note on the large sign the price of $695 for a lot. Tract opened March 29, 1939. See also History Room Box A and History Room Box 2.

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Date: c.1940

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Date: c.1940

Subjects: Santa Anita Village; San Gabriel Mountains

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 874

Collection: Photographs

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Fuzzy photo of Marshall Elmer Anderson, shown wearing bow tie and suit. Photo was reproduced from old Arcadia newspaper.

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Date: c.1903

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Date: c.1903

Subjects: Anderson, Elmer; Police Department

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1348

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of Arcadia Police Chief Don Ott, reproduced from an old Arcadia newspaper. He is in uniform with white shirt and tie.

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Date: c.1942

1 image

Date: c.1942

Subjects: Ott, Donald; Police Department

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1349

Collection: Photographs

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Building at 53 E. Huntington Drive built in early 1930's as a newspaper plant for the Arcadia News Journal (Arcadia Tribune).

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Date: c.1975

1 image

Date: c.1975

Subjects: Newspapers; Arcadia News Journal; Arcadia Tribune

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 216

Collection: Photographs

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There is no print of this negative. The negative is of newspaper clippings announcing the opening of new housing developments, including Rancho Santa Anita and Santa Anita Village.

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Date: c.1940

1 image

Date: c.1940

Subjects: Houses

Physical Description: 6x8 1/2 negative only

ID: 1430

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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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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A bear roaming through Wilderness Park. Copy 2 is enlarged a bit. Date discrepancies appear handwritten on the backs of the two copies.

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Date: c. July 1994 or July 1995

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Date: c. July 1994 or July 1995

Subjects: Recreation Department Collection; Bears; Parks; Wilderness Park

Physical Description: 4 x 6 color

ID: 2036

Collection: Photographs

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James Jeffries, well known boxer is shown in defensive stance. He is known to have visited Arcadia as reported in a 1904 newspaper -- and possible to have fought here.

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Date: c.1900

1 image

Date: c.1900

Subjects: Sports figures; Jeffries, James

Physical Description: 7x10 b&w

ID: 1091

Collection: Photographs

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Page from Los Angeles Times of March 21, 1909 telling of the coming end of racing at Santa Anita Park when State of California will close it with the ban on horse racing, April 20, 1909. See legible copy in VF Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and Horse Racing.

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Date: March 21, 1909

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Date: March 21, 1909

Subjects: Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing; Santa Anita Park-1907-1912

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 554

Collection: Photographs

Images

Clara Baldwin portrait from a newspaper. She is shown in later years, wearing a felt hat that has a feather decoration. She is also wearing beads in a choker style.

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Date: c.1923

1 image

Date: c.1923

Subjects: Baldwin, Clara; Baldwin family

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 958

Collection: Photographs

Images

Front cover of The Arcadia Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Artwork by Volkmann, 1918. 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_110 on LHDRP 2006-2007 Disc 9 of 14. See black box labeled Arcadia History Room Media Box.

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Date: September 1918

1 image

Date: September 1918

Subjects: Balloon School

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1860

Collection: Photographs

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Newspaper page from sports section of L.A. Sunday Times reporting opening of Santa Anita Park, built by "Lucky" Baldwin and opened December 1907. See more legible hard copy in VF Baldwin, Elias J.-Horses and horse racing.

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Photo of front page of school newspaper called the Cub vol.2no.7.

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Photo of first page of Graduation Issue of The Cub, first Arcadia School newspaper.

Images

Photo of front cover of Vosburgh Oil Corporation promotional brochure for an oil drilling operation which was entered into with high hopes. Oil was not found. (see Vertical file for copy of entire brochure in Arcadia-Business and industry.)

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Images

Images

Close up of ad in first Arcadia newspaper, Arcadia Bulletin. The ad is for the Bonita Hotel. Ben Newman is listed as proprietor.

Images

Photo of article in newspaper (probably LA Times) on auto accident at the unbridged Santa Anita Wash just east of Arcadia.

Images

View north toward mountains from Huntington Drive near Golden West at the time of the opening of Santa Anita Village Tract. Note on the large sign the price of $695 for a lot. Tract opened March 29, 1939. See also History Room Box A and History Room Box 2.

Images

Fuzzy photo of Marshall Elmer Anderson, shown wearing bow tie and suit. Photo was reproduced from old Arcadia newspaper.

Images

Photo of Arcadia Police Chief Don Ott, reproduced from an old Arcadia newspaper. He is in uniform with white shirt and tie.

Images

Building at 53 E. Huntington Drive built in early 1930's as a newspaper plant for the Arcadia News Journal (Arcadia Tribune).

Images

There is no print of this negative. The negative is of newspaper clippings announcing the opening of new housing developments, including Rancho Santa Anita and Santa Anita Village.

Images

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.

Images

A bear roaming through Wilderness Park. Copy 2 is enlarged a bit. Date discrepancies appear handwritten on the backs of the two copies.

Images

James Jeffries, well known boxer is shown in defensive stance. He is known to have visited Arcadia as reported in a 1904 newspaper -- and possible to have fought here.

Images

Page from Los Angeles Times of March 21, 1909 telling of the coming end of racing at Santa Anita Park when State of California will close it with the ban on horse racing, April 20, 1909. See legible copy in VF Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and Horse Racing.

Images

Clara Baldwin portrait from a newspaper. She is shown in later years, wearing a felt hat that has a feather decoration. She is also wearing beads in a choker style.

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