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1. Lay corner stone for this fine high school tomorrow. News photo and caption, n,d, (circa 1926?) - completed 1928.

2. Fifty-Seventh Annual Commencement Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte High School, June 1951. Last commencement for combined high school.

3. Arcadia students had been attending high school in Monrovia since 1920. History of Monrovia City High School by Thelma Thompson, former English teacher there.

4. Union High School at Monrovia. Photo and caption from rotogravure section of early Los Angeles Times (?) , n.d.

5. The Wildcat. Copy of school paper dated November 5, 1943. Gift received June 1980.

6. Copy of mid-year graduation program and commencement, January 28, 1943. Copied from the original loaned by Vera Van Houten Iwaaden in September 1980.

7. Help Arcadia Get Justice. Copy of hand bill for Arcadians opposing bond election for funds for a unified district. States that Arcadians pay a disproportionate amount - 41% of taxes with only 80 pupils in school against 330 from Monrovia and 25 from Duarte. April 1923.

8. Bulletin and Catalogue of Information, 1937. Copied from original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, p.101.

9. The Foothill School Bulletin, February 1938. Copied from original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, p.99.

10. The Foothill School Bulletin, January 1939. Copied from the original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #3.

11. The High School Bulletin, April 1940. Copied from original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, p.91.

12. Directory of Schools 1937-38. Copied from the original in Rancho Santa Anita Scrapbook #1, p.97.

13. Parent-Teacher Association of Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte High School annual dues envelope for 50 cents c/o Lorna Frey. (Found in the American Rose Annual for 1948)

14. Girls Physical Education Department towel receipt dated January 24, 1944.

15. Welcome to High School, map of the school and The Merit System. 3pgs

16. MAD Forty Year Reunion book for class of 1948. 2 copies

17. Monrovia Arcadia Duarte High School Catalog of Information dated January 11, 1944.

18. MAD Wildcats . Three decals (transfers). c. 1943

19. MAD Information for New Girls. c. 1944.

20. Notepad and stationery pages of "The Wildcat" school newspaper.

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Schools - High Schools - Monrovia-Arcadia-Duarte

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220AF

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1. Thirty-second annual commencement - Monrovia High School, 1926. Copy of complete program, copied from original loaned by Adrian Winkler in January 1981. note: before M.A.D. was built, Arcadia students went to Monrovia H.S.

2. Monrovia High School history, from book The Schools in Our Town by Monrovia Students Past and Present, edited by E. Louise Osbrink, including cover image and some history of M.A.D. High School (Monrovia Arcadia Duarte H.S.), 2004.

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Schools - High Schools - Monrovia High School

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221AF

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1. "William Wolfskill - the first man to raise oranges commercially in California." Magazine source and date unknown.

2. Notes from visit with Marcella Palethorpe, great-granddaughter of William Wolfskill, March 3, 1980. Present were Arcadia Librarian Pat McAdam and Sandy Snider of the Los Angeles Count Arboretum.

3. "Wolfskill paid $20,000 for rancho in 1865." Arcadia Tribune, December 8, 1977 by Anna Wallace.

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History-Rancho Santa Anita (1865-1872)-William Wolfskill

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109AF

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1. "The well-known rancho, Santa Anita." An article from the book, California Ranchos and Farms, 1846-1862, published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1967.

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History-Rancho Santa Anita (1858-1865)-William Corbitt and Albert Dibblee

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108AF

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