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Midwinter graduation class at First Avenue School on January 27, 1944. Includes teacher and students. Published on p. 112 of VISIONS OF ARCADIA, A CENTENNIAL ANTHOLOGY.

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Date: January 27, 1944

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Date: January 27, 1944

Subjects: First Avenue School

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 1723

Collection: Photographs

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Three pieces of sheet music written and published by Anita Baldwin are pictured. Two titles clearly seen are: Indian Flute Song and Omar Khayyam.

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Date: music dates from about 1920's

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Date: music dates from about 1920's

Subjects: Baldwin, Anita

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1090

Collection: Photographs

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Small boy is receiving inoculation from a nurse, while another nurse reassures him; small girl awaits her turn at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese.

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Date: April 1942

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Date: April 1942

Subjects: Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese-Health & hygiene; Santa Anita Park-1942-1945

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 668

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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Three dignitaries present when plaque was placed commemorating 100th anniversary of the granting of Rancho Santa Anita to Hugo Reid. L-R: Palmer Conner, author of Romance of the Ranchos, Marshall Stimson, authority on Southern California history, and Don Smith, President of Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce.

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Date: April 19, 1941

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Date: April 19, 1941

Subjects: Rancho Santa Anita; Hugo Reid Adobe

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 965

Collection: Photographs

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Arcadia City Manager Bill Kelly is seen standing in front of book cases in the office of the City Attorney. He is wearing a white shirt and tie and is looking down at a book in his hands. Photo was taken by Dorothy Denne of the Arcadia Weekly to be used in a display at the Library for National Library Week.

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Date: March 1997

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Date: March 1997

Subjects: Kelly, Bill

Physical Description: 8x10 color

ID: 1501

Collection: Photographs

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American Savings building at 30 N. Santa Anita Ave. Former location of first school, a converted packing house.

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Date: 1979

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Date: 1979

Subjects: American Savings and Loan; Schools-History-1880's-1950

Physical Description: 4x5 color

ID: 1230

Collection: Photographs

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Bronze plaque commemorating site of Arcadia's first school built in 1903. Plaque is located at 30 N. Santa Anita Ave.

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Date: 1979

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Date: 1979

Subjects: Schools-History-1880's-1950

Physical Description: 4x5 color

ID: 1229

Collection: Photographs

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Photographic reproduction of front cover of the July 1921 issue of The Western Humanitarian, published monthly by the Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The cover features Anita Baldwin wearing a large hat with a flower in the middle.

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Date: July 1921

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Date: July 1921

Subjects: Baldwin, Anita

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 284

Collection: Photographs

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Grace Clark, City Librarian 1953-1959, at her desk at Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue.

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Date: c.1955

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Date: c.1955

Subjects: Clark, Grace

Physical Description: 3x5 b&w vertical

ID: 355

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of cover of MY FAIR LADY program from the Arcadia High School production of this musical at San Gabriel Civic Auditorium.

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Date: May 1972

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Date: May 1972

Subjects: Arcadia High School; Theater

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1120

Collection: Photographs

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View across Children's Wing, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Shows one person at desk, seated, and another standing looking at book. There is shelving along outside walls of room.

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Date: 1956

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Date: 1956

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959

Physical Description: 3x5 b&w

ID: 339

Collection: Photographs

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Frank McCoy (1869-1935) pictured in bust-length studio photograph. He has a hat on with brim turned up all the way around. Identified for library by George McCoy in 1978. No other circumstances known.

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Date: c.1880's

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Date: c.1880's

Subjects: McCoy, Frank

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 422

Collection: Photographs

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Cast of moving picture, THE HEART OF A RACE TOUT, the first moving picture made ENTIRELY in California. It was made by Selig Polyscope Co.of Chicago who had opened a studio in downtown Los Angeles. The movie was made to take advantage of the Racetrack built in Arcadia by E.J."Lucky" Baldwin which opened in 1907.

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Date: 1909

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Date: 1909

Subjects: Motion pictures

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 852

Collection: Photographs

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Mr. Dewey Butler is seen sitting on his tractor. The Mauch family knew him very well and he would use his tractor to turn the soil on their ranch as well as his own. This photo was taken at Mauch ranch at Palm Avenue and Holly Avenue. In a 1997 conversation between Carol Libby of the Arcadia Historical Society and Lynette Dunn, daughter of Dewey Butler, Mrs. Dunn stated that this photo is not of her father. She said it was possibly her uncle.

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Date: 1928

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Date: 1928

Subjects: Butler, Dewey; Mauch, Aloyosius

Physical Description: 6x10 b&w

ID: 998

Collection: Photographs

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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

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Eleanor Gilbert at circulation desk of Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. View is looking east out front door. Mother and son are coming in door. Patron is browsing in 7 day book area. Photo wide view of #308.

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Date: 1953

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Date: 1953

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959; Gilbert, Eleanor

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 309

Collection: Photographs

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The library does not have a print of this negative. This negative, along with 983B and 983C, appears on p.48 and p.49 of WHERE RANCH AND CITY MEET. Together, these three negatives are of a Baldwin advertising brochure, c.1891, entitled CALIFORNIA'S CHOICEST LOCALITY. This negative, 983A, has the title page of the brochure and also a "Birdseye view of Arcadia and Santa Anita Tract," 1887.

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Date: originals c.1887 and 1891

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Date: originals c.1887 and 1891

Subjects: Rancho Santa Anita; Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"

Physical Description: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 b&w negative

ID: 983A

Collection: Photographs

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Four women standing in a bay window area of the Arcadia Public Library at 25 N. First Avenue. Left to right: Library staff Mary Lou Harbin, Madeline Hopps, children's author Margaret Richardson, and library staff June Davies. Mrs. Richardson lived in Arcadia and wrote SEVEN LITTLE PIFFLESNIFFS.

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Date: c.1954

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Date: c.1954

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959; Harbin, Mary Lou; Hopps, Madeline; Davies, June; Arcadia Authors-Richardson, Margaret

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w vertical

ID: 301

Collection: Photographs

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Three staff members pictured preparing books in technical department work area of Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Left to right: Hazel Bolton, Eleanor Gilbert, Lilian (Vi) Mahr (Chaffers).

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Date: c.1963

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Date: c.1963

Subjects: Arcadia Public Library-1930-1959; Bolton, Hazel; Chaffers, Vi; Gilbert, Eleanor

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 350

Collection: Photographs

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Midwinter graduation class at First Avenue School on January 27, 1944. Includes teacher and students. Published on p. 112 of VISIONS OF ARCADIA, A CENTENNIAL ANTHOLOGY.

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Three pieces of sheet music written and published by Anita Baldwin are pictured. Two titles clearly seen are: Indian Flute Song and Omar Khayyam.

Images

Small boy is receiving inoculation from a nurse, while another nurse reassures him; small girl awaits her turn at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese.

Images

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

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American Savings building at 30 N. Santa Anita Ave. Former location of first school, a converted packing house.

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Bronze plaque commemorating site of Arcadia's first school built in 1903. Plaque is located at 30 N. Santa Anita Ave.

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Photographic reproduction of front cover of the July 1921 issue of The Western Humanitarian, published monthly by the Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The cover features Anita Baldwin wearing a large hat with a flower in the middle.

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Grace Clark, City Librarian 1953-1959, at her desk at Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue.

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Photo of cover of MY FAIR LADY program from the Arcadia High School production of this musical at San Gabriel Civic Auditorium.

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View across Children's Wing, Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Shows one person at desk, seated, and another standing looking at book. There is shelving along outside walls of room.

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Frank McCoy (1869-1935) pictured in bust-length studio photograph. He has a hat on with brim turned up all the way around. Identified for library by George McCoy in 1978. No other circumstances known.

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Eleanor Gilbert at circulation desk of Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. View is looking east out front door. Mother and son are coming in door. Patron is browsing in 7 day book area. Photo wide view of #308.

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Four women standing in a bay window area of the Arcadia Public Library at 25 N. First Avenue. Left to right: Library staff Mary Lou Harbin, Madeline Hopps, children's author Margaret Richardson, and library staff June Davies. Mrs. Richardson lived in Arcadia and wrote SEVEN LITTLE PIFFLESNIFFS.

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Three staff members pictured preparing books in technical department work area of Arcadia Public Library, 25 N. First Avenue. Left to right: Hazel Bolton, Eleanor Gilbert, Lilian (Vi) Mahr (Chaffers).

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