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Aerial view west toward Santa Anita Ave. from above First Avenue, site of new grammar school. Long driveway heads to Jaspar N. Teague home in center of 10 acre orange grove. (Address in City Directory for this name is 1380 S. Santa Anita.) House to left and south was that of Charles W. Stewart in another 10 acre plot. Both ranches are now occupied by First Avenue Junior High School.

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Date: November 1929

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Date: November 1929

Subjects: Houses; Teague, Jaspar; Stewart, Charles W.; Agriculture; First Avenue Junior High School; Arcadia(City)-History-1920-1929

Physical Description: 6x10 b&w

ID: 12

Collection: Photographs

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Arcadia City Council Members at the unveiling of plaque designating Arcadia Woman's Club Clubhouse the City of Arcadia Historic Landmark No. 1, at 324 S. First Avenue, Arcadia, CA. Left to right: Council Member Sho Tay, Council Member Michael Danielson, Cheryl Alberg, Mayor Tom Beck, Council Member Paul P. Cheng, Council Member April Verlato, and Marilyn Daleo. This is the first City of Arcadia Historical Landmark.

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Date: October 5, 2022

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Date: October 5, 2022

Subjects: Alberg, Cheryl; Arcadia City Council-2020-2029; Arcadia Woman's Club; Beck, Tom; Cheng, Paul P.; City of Arcadia Historic Landmarks; Daleo, Marilyn; Danielson, Michael; Tay, Sho; Verlato, April

Physical Description: digital, see i:images

ID: 2269

Collection: Photographs

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Wilderness Park with the pavilion in the background. Address is 2240 N. Highland Oaks Drive.

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Date: July 8, 1987

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Date: July 8, 1987

Subjects: Arcadia(City)-History-1980-1989; Wilderness Park

Physical Description: 4x6 color

ID: 1192

Collection: Photographs

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View west on Duarte Road from near intersection with Santa Anita. Street is lined on both sides with pepper trees. Note mailbox on left bears the number 20 W. Duarte Road - the current address of Arcadia Public Library. Groups of students are walking on south side of street to newly opened Arcadia High School which is on the right.

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Date: 1952

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Date: 1952

Subjects: Duarte Road; Arcadia High School

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 598

Collection: Photographs

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Arcadia Grammar School taken from center of First Avenue. Nice shade trees are on both sides of main entrance.

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Date: 1927

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Date: 1927

Subjects: Arcadia Grammar School

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 973

Collection: Photographs

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Wilderness Park Pavilion. The address is 2240 N. Highland Oaks Drive.

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Date: July 8, 1987

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Date: July 8, 1987

Subjects: Wilderness Park

Physical Description: 4x6 color

ID: 1182

Collection: Photographs

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Fountain at Santa Anita and Huntington Drive, turned on again after 14 years. Photo taken from Santa Anita side.

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Date: July 8, 1987

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Date: July 8, 1987

Subjects: Arcadia(City)-History-1980-1989; Arcadia County Park

Physical Description: 4x6 color

ID: 1196

Collection: Photographs

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Real estate articles on a page from Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook reflecting building in Arcadia in late 1939 and early 1940.

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Date: c.1940

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Date: c.1940

Subjects: Real estate

Physical Description: 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 b&w

ID: 531

Collection: Photographs

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Gene Glasco, City Clerk 2012-2024. Retired in 2024. This photo c. 2020. Gene Glasco is a native Californian and long time resident of Arcadia. Gene attended Highland Oaks Elementary school, First Avenue Junior High School, and is a graduate of Arcadia High School where he lettered in Football and played second chair trombone in the award-winning AHS Marching Band. Gene is Arcadia’s first elected City Clerk that is a graduate of Arcadia High School. Gene served six years in the United States Navy. He spent fourteen months in Vietnam as a Radioman in support of US Navy riverboat activities in the Mekong Delta and is a service-connected disabled Veteran. Gene is an Honor Role graduate of Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo. He attended San Jose State University where he majored in Public Relations with a minor in Asian American History. After thirty years in the foodservice industry, Gene retired from Glasco and Associates, Inc. He also has practiced real estate in Arcadia.

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Date: 2020

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Date: 2020

Subjects: Arcadia High School alumni; City Clerks; Glasco, Gene; Veterans

Physical Description: color printout, digital, see P:\Library Photos\images

ID: 2293

Collection: Photographs

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View north toward mountains and Chantry Flats Road. From vicinity just east of Santa Anita, where present Orange Grove intersects, showing orange groves. An open field apparently planted to grain and having a large oak tree, would be present site of Highland Oaks School. Eucalyptus trees lining Santa Anita are on left in photo, this property belonged to Harry and Hattie Ainsworth.

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Date: 1916

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Date: 1916

Subjects: Ainsworth, Harry; Ainsworth, Hattie; Highland Oaks Elementary School

Physical Description: 7x10 b&w

ID: 366

Collection: Photographs

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Harry Ainsworth Ranch, upper grove looking north to mountains. Present day Highland Oaks School would be located about where trees block the end of the row of citrus trees.

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Date: c.1916

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Date: c.1916

Subjects: Agriculture; Ainsworth Ranch

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1072

Collection: Photographs

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Cuccia Peach orchard, 60 acres from Lovell to Holly Avenue and Leroy to Norman. Shows one man on ladder picking in grove; one man standing picking; boxes of fruit.

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Date: c.1925

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Date: c.1925

Subjects: Cuccia, Peter; Agriculture; Arcadia(City)-History-1920-1929

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 10

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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Police Chief Orr, seated at his desk in his uniform. He was Chief from 1942-1944 and again 1951-1956.

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Date: c.1957

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Date: c.1957

Subjects: Police Department; Orr, William S.

Physical Description: 4x4 color

ID: 446

Collection: Photographs

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View toward the east believed to be from a point about at corner of present Santa Anita and Elkins Drive in the Highland Oaks area. The large canyon opening to left side of photo would be at mouth of Big Santa Anita. Large oak on right, dirt road, white building near center of photo.

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Date: c.1930

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Date: c.1930

Subjects: Santa Anita Canyon; Arcadia-City-History-1930-1939

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 608

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view south from Chantry Flats Road over the still-developing upper Highlands section of Arcadia. View is across Arcadia toward the Puente Hills. Santa Anita Park Race Track is seen in the center. Santa Anita Wash is seen on extreme left.

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Date: c.1965

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Date: c.1965

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Arcadia(City)-History-1960-1969; Chantry Flats Road; Santa Anita Wash

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 949

Collection: Photographs

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Articles on real estate development in Arcadia.

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Date: c.1939

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Date: c.1939

Subjects: Real estate

Physical Description: 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 b&w

ID: 532

Collection: Photographs

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Female employees of the Arcadia Police Department standing outside the police station at 50 Wheeler St. On right is Flora Mae Keeville, the Chief's secretary September 1956-March 1959. On left is Mary Desmond, a steno clerk from October 1955-November 1958. Both are in full uniform, which includes a hat, button up shirt and/or jacket, skirt, heeled pumps, and a handbag. See also #1761 and 1762.

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Date: Mid 1950s

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Date: Mid 1950s

Subjects: Arcadia Police Department; Keeville, Flora Mae; Desmond, Mary

Physical Description: 8 x 10 b & w

ID: 1763

Collection: Photographs

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Brick wall on Campus Drive side of Arcadia High School that is in front of Administration Buildings. On the wall are metal letters, spelling Arcadia High School.

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Date: c.1965

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Date: c.1965

Subjects: Arcadia High School

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1147

Collection: Photographs

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View of private swimming pool at a home in Santa Anita Oaks. A tennis court also appears in background. Address is not known. Oak tree in foreground and stepping stones leading to pool.

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Date: probably 1940's

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Date: probably 1940's

Subjects: Houses; Santa Anita Oaks

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 278

Collection: Photographs

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Wilderness Park with the pavilion in the background. Address is 2240 N. Highland Oaks Drive.

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Arcadia Grammar School taken from center of First Avenue. Nice shade trees are on both sides of main entrance.

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Wilderness Park Pavilion. The address is 2240 N. Highland Oaks Drive.

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Fountain at Santa Anita and Huntington Drive, turned on again after 14 years. Photo taken from Santa Anita side.

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Real estate articles on a page from Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook reflecting building in Arcadia in late 1939 and early 1940.

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Harry Ainsworth Ranch, upper grove looking north to mountains. Present day Highland Oaks School would be located about where trees block the end of the row of citrus trees.

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Cuccia Peach orchard, 60 acres from Lovell to Holly Avenue and Leroy to Norman. Shows one man on ladder picking in grove; one man standing picking; boxes of fruit.

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Police Chief Orr, seated at his desk in his uniform. He was Chief from 1942-1944 and again 1951-1956.

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View toward the east believed to be from a point about at corner of present Santa Anita and Elkins Drive in the Highland Oaks area. The large canyon opening to left side of photo would be at mouth of Big Santa Anita. Large oak on right, dirt road, white building near center of photo.

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Aerial view south from Chantry Flats Road over the still-developing upper Highlands section of Arcadia. View is across Arcadia toward the Puente Hills. Santa Anita Park Race Track is seen in the center. Santa Anita Wash is seen on extreme left.

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Articles on real estate development in Arcadia.

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Brick wall on Campus Drive side of Arcadia High School that is in front of Administration Buildings. On the wall are metal letters, spelling Arcadia High School.

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View of private swimming pool at a home in Santa Anita Oaks. A tennis court also appears in background. Address is not known. Oak tree in foreground and stepping stones leading to pool.

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