Single Pacific Electric Railway car (#1126) with destination card reading Monrovia-Glendora. Photographed on tracks in Arcadia at approximately First Avenue. Pacific Electric control tower is to right of car.
View east along Pacific Electric tracks showing Santa Anita Specials waiting for the races to conclude. This photo belongs to Southern California Edison Co. Historical Collection. It is shown here for research only.
Pacific Electric control tower near First Street and Santa Fe tracks. The car on the tracks probably is one of the Santa Fe self-propelled cars that ran from Los Angeles to San Bernardino. View to the northwest.
The library does not own a print of this negative. A print of this, along with #1384, appear in p. 68 of WHERE RANCH AND CITY MEET. They are of a Pacific Electric excursion brochure, circa 1905. This negative is of the narrative, descriptive pages.
Car #331 of Pacific Electric pictured very close-up. It is close enough to notice the advertising cards inside car above seats. Car appears to be very early one. This photo belongs to the Los Angeles County Arboretum. It is shown here for research only.
The library does not have a print of this negative. A print of this, along with #1385, appears on p. 68 of WHERE RANCH AND CITY MEET. They are of a Pacific Electric excursion brochure, circa 1905. This negative is of the front cover of the brochure, called "Monrovia and Baldwin's Ranch."
Patrons studying at Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road. Two boys and one girl at a table, one additional girl is in the stacks selecting a book.
Patrons standing in line to check out books at the new circulation desk at the Arcadia Public Library at 20 W. Duarte Road. Part of the "History of the Arcadia Public Library" slide series prepared by City Librarian Kent Ross.
View across parking lot toward front entrance of Arcadia Public Library, 20 W. Duarte Road. Brick section to left of front entrance encloses a patio accessible to patrons.
Patrons standing in line to check out books at the old circulation desk at the Arcadia Public Library at 20 W. Duarte Road. Part of the "History of the Arcadia Public Library" slide series prepared by City Librarian Kent Ross. Globe lights and "wagon wheel" fixture.
Jennifer Warner, Marny Hackley, Jackie Faust-Moreno and Carolyn Garner (L to R) standing behind the Arcadia Public Library table at the Lucky Baldwin Day Community Picnic on Sunday, November 2, 2003 at the Arcadia County Park.
View from circulation desk, Arcadia Public Library 20 W. Duarte Road. Clerk Antoinette Braley in white blouse, is attending desk. Another clerk is in background. Four patrons are near desk. Area is decorated for Christmas. Globe lights and "wagon wheel" fixture.
View northeast over Pacific Electric Railroad. Ross Field Balloon School occupies portion on right side of photo over to the railroad tracks. The street marking its northern boundary would be Huntington Drive. The large rectangle just north of this street was Rancho Resevoir, converted into a swimming pool. The principal street marking east boundary of Balloon School property running north to south across this photo about at middle, is Santa Anita Avenue.
View of circulation desk under skylight dome of Arcadia Public Library. In view, working at desk, are Freda Bernard on left with glasses and Carole Schubert (later, Wilson) on right. Two women patrons are being helped by Freda Bernard, and one woman with small girl waits at center. Globe lights and "wagon wheel" fixture.
Group of high school students lined up to check books out in the evening. Grace Rahm is clerk seated at desk helping them. In background are 3 additional patrons browsing.
Steam locomotive and tender belonging to Los Angeles & San Gabriel Valley Line. Stan Garner, train authority, tells us it is a second hand Civil War period engine considerably rebuilt.