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View north up Santa Anita Avenue with mountains in background. This photo was taken about where present Orange Grove Avenue intersects with Santa Anita Avenue. Note orange groves all along west side of Santa Anita as far as the mountains. Street is not paved.

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Date
1916

  1 image

Date
1916
Subjects
Santa Anita Avenue
Agriculture
Physical Description
8x11 b&w
ID
580
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Strawberry patch. Looking northeast between First Avenue and Second Avenue. Houses and mountains in view.

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Date
c.1910-1915

  1 image

Date
c.1910-1915
Subjects
Houses
San Gabriel Mountains
Agriculture
Arcadia(City)-History-1903-1919
Physical Description
2x3 b&w (top left corner torn)
ID
13
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Village street scene from set of "On the Road to Singapore," filmed at the Arboretum in 1940. Film starred Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.

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Date
c.1940

  1 image

Date
c.1940
Subjects
Arboretum
Film industry
Motion pictures
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1361
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

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

  1 image

Date
c.1925
Subjects
Cuccia, Peter
Agriculture
Arcadia(City)-History-1920-1929
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
10
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Peacock with its feathers spread is seen on what is thought to be Pig Hill, part of Tallac Knoll where Anita Baldwin kept her pigs. There is a fence behind the peacock and a number of pigs visible.

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Date
unknown

  1 image

Date
unknown
Subjects
Arboretum
Tallac Knoll
Pig Hill
Peacocks
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1543
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Photo shows field planted in rutabagas by Adele Strutzenberg's father at 1802 S. Santa Anita. Field extended from Santa Anita to Second Avenue.

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Date
c.1920

  1 image

Date
c.1920
Subjects
Agriculture
Strutzenberg, Louis
Physical Description
2x4 b&w
ID
383
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Twelve people are seen picking strawberries on the Mauch ranch at Palm Avenue and Holly Avenue. All are wearing hats. The large white-colored hangars still standing on the Balloon School property can be seen behind the trees in left half of photo.

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Date
1931

  1 image

Date
1931
Subjects
Agriculture
Mauch, Aloyosius
Physical Description
6x10 b&w
ID
996
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Chicken ranch buildings belonging to Roy H. Pike. Shows neat hedges along drive leading to buildings.

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Date
1928-1930

  1 image

Date
1928-1930
Subjects
Agriculture
Arcadia(City)-History-1920-1929
Pike, Roy
Poultry
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
7
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

One of the houses on the north cove of the lake at the Arboretum which was built for the filming of the movie "Road to Singapore," starring Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, and Bob Hope. The house is up on stilts in the lake. The movie was filmed in 1940.

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Date
c.1940

  1 image

Date
c.1940
Subjects
Arboretum
Film industry
Motion pictures
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1360
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Church of Transfiguration is now located where this view shows. Path in photo is First Avenue of today. Shows what appears to be orchard and possible strawberry patch on left side of photo between First and Second Avenues.

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Date
c.1910-1915

  1 image

Date
c.1910-1915
Subjects
Agriculture
Church of the Transfiguration
Arcadia(City)-History-1903-1919
Physical Description
2x3 b&w vertical
ID
14
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

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