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Portion of earliest seal of the City of Arcadia showing only one figure with sword in one hand and shield in another. It reads: CITY OF ARCADIA. INCORPORATED JULY 1903.

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Date
1903

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Date
1903
Subjects
Arcadia City Seal
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
574
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Photo ad for White City-Arcadia. Sign on wall calls it a resort. Photo shows lady and child in light carriage with fourteen people standing nearby. Beneath photo it reads: BALDWIN MUSIC HALL-THE BEST MUSICAL COMEDY AND VAUDEVILLE-EVERY EVENING. Banner between trees reads BIG BARBEQUE ----(not clear) BAND AND ORCHESTRA ----(not clear). (Barbecue?)

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Date
1906

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Date
1906
Subjects
Restaurants-White City
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
929
Collection
Photographs
Images
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38 horse combine harvester working near Arcadia.

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Date
June 25, 1906

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Date
June 25, 1906
Subjects
Agriculture
Arcadia (City)-History-1903-1919
Physical Description
8x10 (1), 3x5 (1)
ID
1
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Portrait of Francis Xavier Lourdou, architect for Arcadia's first City Hall.

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Date
1918

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Date
1918
Subjects
Architects-Lourdou, Francis Xavier
City Hall
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1252
Collection
Photographs
Images
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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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Arcadia City Council members in a decorated Hupmobile Touring Car parked on Huntington Drive next to City Hall. Behind is a fire truck, also decorated, with 10 firemen on the truck or near by. The man at the wheel of the fire truck is Jim Nellis. The Councilmen are: Rear seats,L-R: Ferd E. Gram; Arthur N. Multer; and Charles Hawk. Front seat,L-R: Samuel L. Wheeler; John T. Joyce, the Hupmobile Dealer. Fifth member of Council, John Granville was not present. Seated at the base of the pillar of City Hall is Adrian Winkler and standing beside him is George Newton. The vehicles are on their way to dedication of new concrete span over Santa Anita Wash.

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Date
1925

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Date
1925
Subjects
Gramm, Ferd E
Hawk, Charles
Multer, Arthur Nelson
Wheeler, Samuel L.
Joyce, John T.
Newton, George
City Hall
Winkler, Adrian
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1075
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Pat Carlin is the small boy standing with the tire in front of service station owned and operated by his father and his aunt, J.A. and M.A. Carlin on the NE corner of First and LaPorte. This building is the same one as shown in photo #490 and which served briefly as City Hall.

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Date
1927

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Date
1927
Subjects
Ace Service Station
City Hall
Carlin, Pat
Gas stations
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
854
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Looking west toward City Hall on NW corner of First Avenue and Huntington Drive with extensive view north on First. Thirteen people stand on corner in front of City Hall. They are: seated by Fire House door, Jim Nellis. Standing L-R: George Ackerman, City Treasurer; Louis Altona, Building inspector; behind him with hat possibly Judge Horlack; Grady Pardue, police; behind him with hat Les Talley, Assistant City Engineer; Gladys Randall Pelky, Water Dept. Clerk. Behind her with cap, not identified. Next A. N. Coberly, Police Chief; Florence Shaver, Assistant City Clerk; Dick Cutter (not City employee); Bernice Hinman (not City employee); Anist Mussachia, Fire Dept. Two other men and lady not identified. Part of panorama, ID#s 916-921.

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Date
1927

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Looking west on Huntington Drive from intersection at First Avenue. Corner of City Hall shows on right side of photo. Two people standing are: George Ackerman, City Treasurer; and Louis Altona Building inspector. Building on north side of Huntington Drive with square tower, is Community Presbyterian Church. Service station is opposite City Hall. Part of panorama, ID#s 916-921.

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Date
1927

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Date
1927
Subjects
Huntington Drive
City Hall
Gas stations
Ackerman, George
Altona, Louis
Physical Description
7x10 b&w part of panorama
ID
918
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Portrait of Chief of Arcadia Police & Fire Department A. N. Coberly. He is shown in an oval frame, wearing a suit and tie.

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Date
1927

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Date
1927
Subjects
Coberly, A.N.
Coberly, Arthur Neal
Police Department
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1350
Collection
Photographs
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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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View north on First Avenue just north of Santa Fe Railroad Tracks. Graves Drug Store on right with a bank next to it. The two story building on SW corner of St. Joseph Street and First was McCoy Building. According to information given by Stu Henderson, current owner of King Pharmacy, the history of Graves Drug Store is as follows: Originally it was opened by Oscar Seaquist, later bought by Walter A. Graves. Some years later it was bought by R.B. and R.B. Bagnall Jr. (circa 1940's) and was relocated to 54 E. Huntington Drive. By 1950 the City directory listed it as owned by A.P.King and has been known by that name since.

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Date
1930

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Date
1930
Subjects
First Avenue
W.F. Springer Furniture Company
Restaurants-Queen City Club
Graves Drug Store
Stores
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
584
Collection
Photographs
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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.

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Date
April 17, 1932

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Huntington Drive looking west from near intersection of First Avenue. On NW corner is vine-covered City Hall. Open roadster has just made a left turn and is going south on First. There is a moving picture theater mid-way along street on south side with large banner advertising Charles Laughton Film. This photo belongs to the Huntington Library. It is shown here for research only.

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Date
1938

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Date
1938
Subjects
Huntington Drive
Arcadia Drive-In Market
Markets
Paul Miller Appliances
City Hall
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
590
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View looking west toward Eaton's Restaurant from upstairs porch at 431 Vaquero Road, home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Smethurst. (SW corner of Vaquero and Murietta) Seen outside the white picket fence, are about 22 cows. They are probably part of Hugh Buck's dairy herd.

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Date
1938

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Date
1938
Subjects
Arcadia(City)-History-1930-1939
Vaquero Street
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1101
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Page of articles relating to Arcadia real estate and zoning.

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Date
Dec. 1939

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Date
Dec. 1939
Subjects
Real estate
City planning
Physical Description
6 1/4 x 8 1/2 b&w
ID
533
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Zoning map of City of Arcadia.

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Date
June 1940

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Date
June 1940
Subjects
Real estate
City planning
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
530
Collection
Photographs
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View up one street in Santa Anita Gardens area just off Huntington Drive (to the north) with houses under construction on both sides of the street. Writing on the photo indicates that it is part of Tract 12506 "Y". This tract includes San Antonio Road. Cars of the workmen are parked nearby. The Chantry Flats Road is clearly seen on the mountains in background.

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Date
1941

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Date
1941
Subjects
Santa Anita Village
Arcadia (City)-History-1940-1949
Physical Description
3x5 b&w
ID
1138
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View of group of men leaving for military service from Temple City Pacific Electric station. Mrs. Van Iwaarden took this photo from inside their car after having said goodbye to her husband. She said this facility served Arcadia and Temple City.

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Date
1943

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Date
1943
Subjects
Arcadia(City)-History-1940-1949
Van Iwaarden, Vera Van Houten
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1043
Collection
Photographs
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Cover of a flyer prepared by a citizen's group supporting passage of bonds to be voted on by City. Money would be used to install a complete sewer system.

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Date
May 1945

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Date
May 1945
Subjects
Arcadia (City)-History-1940-1949
Sewer system
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
901
Collection
Photographs
Images
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