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Thatcher Chevron Service at 500 N. Santa Anita. Former site of O.D. Harris home.

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Date
1979

  1 image

Date
1979
Subjects
Thatcher Chevron Service
Harris, O.D.
Historic houses
Physical Description
4x5 color
ID
1224
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View from Colorado Street north toward front of building constructed for the Southern California Floral and Perfumery Co. and later the home of O.D. Harris. It was at 15 E. Orange (Colorado) and was demolished in 1961.

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Date
1960

  1 image

Date
1960
Subjects
Southern California Floral and Perfumery Company
Historic houses
Physical Description
5x8 b&w
ID
1112
Collection
Photographs
Images
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O.D. Harris home on NE corner, 15 E. Orange Avenue (later street name changed to 15 Colorado Blvd). It is listed in 1928 City Directory as on Orange Avenue address. House was demolished about 1960*. Twenty people standing and sitting in front of house, gathered for a McCoy family reunion.[*The house stood until 1962 according to description of photo ID 1029. Noted 7/25/2011.]

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Date
c. early 1900's

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Date
c. early 1900's
Subjects
Historic houses
Harris, O.D.
McCoy, Frank
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
256
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View of front entry to what has been called the O.D. Harris house at 15 E. Orange Avenue (now, Colorado Boulevard). Title Insurance & Trust checked the heritage for us and found the building probably was built in late 1880's for Southern California Floral Farm & Perfumery Co. Building stood until 1962. As of 1980, an apartment building was on that location.

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Date
Feb. 1962

  1 image

Date
Feb. 1962
Subjects
Historic houses
Southern California Floral Farm & Perfumery Company
Harris, O.D.
Physical Description
5x7 b&w
ID
1029
Collection
Photographs
Images
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A luncheon for senior citizens at Arcadia Community Center. Betty Harris on far left.

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Date
c. 1995

  1 image

Date
c. 1995
Subjects
Recreation Department Collection
Harris, Betty
Physical Description
4 x 6 color
ID
2089
Collection
Photographs
Images
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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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Home of Charles and Pearl Strong at 460 W. Duarte Road. View shows small clapboard house standing by itself. There is a high-sided trailer standing at left of house. What appears to be chicken houses show in the photo. Claimed to be first white leghorn chicken ranch in Arcadia.

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Date
1921

  1 image

Date
1921
Subjects
Agriculture
Houses
Poultry
Strong, Charles
Physical Description
4 3/8 x 2 5/8 b&w
ID
276
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Four gardeners working on a grassy lawn, with tools of their trade--lawn mower, buckets, and shovel--possibly on a golf course, and probably Par 3 Golf Course in Arcadia.

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Date
unknown

  1 image

Date
unknown
Subjects
Recreation Department Collection
Par 3 Golf Course
Gardeners
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1927
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Twelve players on the Arcadia City baseball team, most are wearing "Arcadia City" tee-shirts. Three are wearing baseball mitts. Left to right, front row: Ed Harris, Al Stegeman, Jack Tillotson, Eric Topel, Bruce Moore, Harry Holms. Left to right, back row: Albert Adcock (Councilman), Don Morgan, Ralph Truan, Forest Wiley, Joe Ocello, Ed Hale.

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Date
1947

  1 image

Photo shows close-up of reeds at edge of lake in Arboretum. These reeds are the type used by native Indians in making their houses.

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Date
c.1975
Date
c.1975
Subjects
Arcadia-History-Early to 1838
Physical Description
8x10 color
ID
729
Collection
Photographs
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Flood damage on N. Santa Anita Avenue. A lot of mud and debris is visible. There are houses in the background and several people standing in the distance.

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Date
March 1954

  1 image

Date
March 1954
Subjects
Streets-Santa Anita Avenue
Floods
Physical Description
3x4
ID
1422
Collection
Photographs
Images
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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
Less detail

Photo of portion of two story Baldwin Ranch boarding house (built 1919 by Anita Baldwin). Was east of gate house on present day Old Ranch Road. Reid Greer remembers it as deserted and he and his friends used to explore it c. 1932. note: see Arcadia VF Arcadia-History-Rancho Santa Anita-1909-1939(Anita Baldwin) item #22 for description of boarding house.

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Date
unknown

  1 image

Date
unknown
Subjects
Rancho Santa Anita
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
116
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View from back yard of Ramuz family home on Arcadia Ave. looking north toward San Gabriel Mountains. (Later they would build home on South Santa Anita in conjunction with their business, The Arcadia Nursery.) There are two small houses, one on left is still under construction. Just to left of center is a power pole. Line of eucalyptus in background apparently was along Huntington Drive.

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Date
c.1917

  1 image

Date
c.1917
Subjects
Houses
San Gabriel Mountains
Physical Description
7x10 b&w
ID
878
Collection
Photographs
Images
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William Parker Lyon, owner of Pony Express Museum, dressed in plaid shirt with black sleeve protectors common to the trade of the printer. He is standing beside an old printing press. Behind him can be seen the compartments which held the type.

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Date
c.1940s

  1 image

Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Lyon, William Parker
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
476
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Two motorcycle officers and their motorcycles on either side of an automobile with top down and Chief "Med" E. Cayer standing beside it. Officer on left is Dick Bloomfield; the one on the right is Jack Miller. Taken in front of two clapboard houses on unknown street.

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Date
c.1921

  1 image

Date
c.1921
Subjects
Police Department
Cayer, Med E.
Bloomfield, Dick
Miller, Jack
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
429
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Adjoining reed houses with sloping thatch-type roofs are shown with a group of Indians sitting by them. One small Indian girl is standing by group with her hands on her hips. This photograph belongs to the Huntington Library. It is shown here for research only.

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Date
c.1878-9

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Date
c.1878-9
Subjects
Rancho Santa Anita-1875-1909
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
728
Collection
Photographs
Images
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A Japanese family (child, mother, father) pictured by small house they lived in on Harry Ainsworth Ranch which was just east of intersection of Santa Anita and Orange Grove Ave. The father was the head gardener for Ainsworth. Name unknown.

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Date
c.1916

  1 image

Date
c.1916
Subjects
Japanese
Ainsworth Ranch
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1068
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Mrs. Herbert Opel, Arcadia Public Library Board Member, talking with Donald Camphouse, Arcadia City Councilman.

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Date
April 1961

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Date
April 1961
Subjects
Opel, Mrs. Herbert
Camphouse, Donald
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
344
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View west across First Avenue at front entrance of Arcadia's first City Hall built for this purpose. This is a painting done by Edna Lenz, photographed by David McAdam. Original painting is housed at Arcadia Public Library. note: slides housed separately; negative housed with other 4x5 negatives; print housed with photos.

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Date
c.1930

  1 image

Date
c.1930
Subjects
City Hall
Physical Description
35mm slide and 8x10 color print
ID
1111
Collection
Photographs
Images
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