Betty Rochefort, President of the Friends of the Library, joins Gloria and S.H. Wen and Kent Ross, City Librarian at the Arcadia Public Library, during a recent Day at the Races benefit for the Arcadia Public Library Foundation. S.H. Wen is a member of the Foundation Board.
1. Preserve our schools. Arcadia Educational Foundation (support group formed to financially assist schools) brochure, 1981. 2. "New trustees are named to foundation." Arcadia Highlander, December 17, 1986. 3. Letter from Arcadia Educational Foundation president, Charles E. Gilb. October 1, 19…
1. Letter to Arcadia Public Library Foundation from Internal Revenue Service approving federal income tax exemption under section 501(a) as an organization described in section 501(c)(3). Dated June 30, 1995. 2.Arcadia Public Library Foundation brochure from 2005, describing the foundation with don…
1. Letter to Arcadia Public Library Foundation from Internal Revenue Service approving federal income tax exemption under section 501(a) as an organization described in section 501(c)(3). Dated June 30, 1995.
2.Arcadia Public Library Foundation brochure from 2005, describing the foundation with donation form.
3. "Opening minds to shape our future" brochure outlines the needs and goals of the Arcadia Public Library Foundation.
4. Arcadia Public Library Foundation letterhead.
5. Arcadia Public Library Foundation "Capital Campaign" brochure and form for donations, to fill needs associated with the library remodeling project. Circa 1995-1996.
6. Arcadia Public Library Foundation Patron Recognition luncheon, September 28, 1997.
7. Page from the library website about the Library Foundation with its goals and history. c. 2015. Note: The Foundation dissolved in 2016.
In this photo, one staff member in dark sweater leans on large table set up to check belongings of new arrivals to Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Approximately twelve Japanese wait for the check. Other staff members and police are standing about one large truck and two autos.
Construction in progress of the one-story Arcadia Police Department building at 250 W. Huntington Drive. Workers pour cement into foundation. Two men carry shovels.
Construction in progress of the one-story Arcadia Police Department building at 250 W. Huntington Drive. Workers are pouring concrete or cement with a funnel into the foundation. Four men shown.
Construction in progress of the one-story Arcadia Police Department building at 250 W. Huntington Drive. Workers are pouring concrete or cement with a funnel into the foundation. Six men shown.
Photo of Jerry Lee Broadwell, the first Arcadia Fire fighter killed in the line of duty. This photo is mounted on a board and was framed as a memorial. It hung in the Children's Room until it was removed in March 1996 to be replaced by a new photo. Jerry is in uniform and is seen chest up looking directly at the camera.
Construction in progress of the foundation of the one-story Arcadia Police Department building at 250 W. Huntington Drive. There are mounds of dirt and a parked car. The Santa Anita Park Racetrack grandstand is visible in the background.
Formal photo of Arcadia Police Department. Back row left to right: Ross E. "Med" Cayer, Leo Bertolina, L. Jack Richards (chief of police), Henry W. Haines (father of George, later in charge of Mutuel windows at Santa Anita), Paul Edwards. Motorcycle officers, left to right: Jack Stine, Grady Pardue, Donald Ott. Standing in back: Jim Nellis, Fire Chief. Taken by police station on Wheeler Street. Identified September 9, 1970 by Bill Orr, former Police Chief.
Kay and Ruth Clifford (he was recent member of Arcadia School Board) are being driven in Diamond Jubilee Parade in what looks like old Ford convertible with a rumble seat.
Construction in progress of the one-story Arcadia Police Department building at 250 W. Huntington Drive. Workers join a pillar-like piece to the foundation with nuts and bolts. It could be an antenna tower. Man in hat is smoking a pipe.
Portraits of four members of the Arcadia Police Department, taken from a page of the "Arcadia Police and Fireman Relief Association Annual Souvenir," (see Arcadia VF-Police-Archives). Pictured are T.J. Phillips, G.B. Pardue, Jack Richards, and H.W. Haines.