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Rowing on the lake in a boat named CLARA are Clara Baldwin Stocker (second from right), Lucky Baldwin's elder daughter; Clara's fourth husband, Harold Stocker (rowing); and several friends. A copy of this photo appears in the March 2, 1909 Los Angeles Daily Times pt.II p.8 with the following identification: FAMILY GROUP ON THE LAKE AT SANTA ANITA. Left to right, in boat - Mr. Mathews, Mrs. F.D. Black, Mr. Stocker ("Lucky's son-in-law), Mrs. H.C. Wyatt, in white; Mrs. Stocker (Lucky's daughter) and Mrs. Scott. There are seven people seated in the boat, but only six names are identified in the newspaper article. Article is in Arcadia History file Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky", number 58 ("His greatest race run, 'Lucky' loses.)

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Date: 1894

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Date: 1894

Subjects: Baldwin, Clara; Stocker, Harold; Rancho Santa Anita-1875-1909; Mathews, Mr.; Black, Mrs. F.D.; Wyatt, Mrs. H.C.; Scott, Mrs.

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1162

Collection: Photographs

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Three people are standing in front of stable area of Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin's Santa Anita Race Track. L-R: Mrs. John (Ella) Ott; eldest son, Donald; and City Marshall, John Ott. (Their daughter told us in 1980 that everyone called her father Jack.) Mrs. Ott is wearing a lavishly feathered hat and a tailored suit. Marshall Ott is wearing a dark double-breasted suit with his badge.

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Date: March 31, 1909

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Date: March 31, 1909

Subjects: Ott, John; Ott, Ella; Ott, Donald; Santa Anita Park-1907-1912

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1054

Collection: Photographs

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View north toward mountains and Chantry Flats Road. From vicinity just east of Santa Anita, where present Orange Grove intersects, showing orange groves. An open field apparently planted to grain and having a large oak tree, would be present site of Highland Oaks School. Eucalyptus trees lining Santa Anita are on left in photo, this property belonged to Harry and Hattie Ainsworth.

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Date: 1916

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Date: 1916

Subjects: Ainsworth, Harry; Ainsworth, Hattie; Highland Oaks Elementary School

Physical Description: 7x10 b&w

ID: 366

Collection: Photographs

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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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Date: September 1918

Subjects: Balloon School; Burke, Ed; Christie, James A.; Clark, Dunlap C.; Drury, Newton B.; Graybill, Lloyd; Hahn, John or Rahn, John; Hine, Harold K.; Keyser, Milton E.; Lillie, Hiram B.; Lynch, A.M.; Sullivan, Joseph; Verbeck, H.G.; Warner, Harry W.; Welch, Ed; Whistler, George; Wiggins, F.C.

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1852

Collection: Photographs

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Page 15 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. L. Heath, J.J. Fitzgerald, H.C. Hahlbeck, Stanley W. Hahn, George K. Barnes, Robert Drake, Rolla W. Wybrant, William D. Geiger, Harry R. Rafferty, Wayne Burbank, T.N. Wrenn, George Parish, William Barnard, Charles N. White, William B. Gemmill, and William Simpson. 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_117 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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Date: September 1918

Subjects: Balloon School; Barnard, William; Barnes, George K; Burbank, Wayne; Drake, Robert; Fitzgerald, J. J.; Geiger, William D.; Gemmill, William B.; Hahlbeck, H.C.; Hahn, Stanley W.; Heath, L.; Parish, George; Rafferty, Harry R; Simpson, William; White, Charles N.; Wrenn, T. N.; Wybrant, Rolla W.

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1853

Collection: Photographs

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Home and office of Dr. Fletcher Sanborn on NE corner of First and Wheeler. Note his professional sign on the lawn. There is chicken-wire fence showing in front. This house had many lives; its last was home for H.O.Y. Clinic until this was torn down about 1977.

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Date: March, 1921

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Date: March, 1921

Subjects: Sanborn, Dr. Fletcher G.; Houses

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 824

Collection: Photographs

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Unidentified sheepherder who would bring his flock to the fields across from Mauch ranch at Holly Avenue and Palm Avenue. He would bring the sheep after the field crop had been harvested to let them graze on stubble. Dog is also visible next to sheepherder.

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Date: 1926

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Date: 1926

Subjects: Agriculture

Physical Description: 6x10 b&w

ID: 997

Collection: Photographs

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Seated in large military truck are, L-R: Bruno Bucher, Cacelie Bucher Mauch, and Master Sgt. William Bucher, step father of the two young people. Truck is parked just inside the fence of Ross Field Balloon School, and at SW corner of Huntington Drive and Santa Anita. Note: Community Presbyterian Church seen behind them (was later moved to First Ave and Alice Street). Note also, a sign, apparently giving name of base over entry and not readable from this angle.

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Date: 1927

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Date: 1927

Subjects: Balloon School; Bucher, Bruno; Bucher, William; Community Presbyterian Church; Mauch, Cacilie Bucher

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1003

Collection: Photographs

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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.

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Date: 1927

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Date: 1927

Subjects: Fire Department; Police Department; Phillips, T.J.; Pardue, Grady; Richards, Jack; Haines, H.W.

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1343

Collection: Photographs

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Photo shows six men standing in front of low building. Two are shown in full police uniforms. Person second from left is Emil Bolz, service station owner. Next is Officer Grady Pardue, next is Assistant Police Chief Louis Jack Richards, and next to him is Don Ott. Person on extreme left may be Paul Edwards. Person on extreme right not identified.

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Date: 1929

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Date: 1929

Subjects: Bolz, Emil; Pardue, Grady; Richards, Louis Jack; Ott, Donald; Edwards, Paul; Police Department

Physical Description: 3x6 post card sepia

ID: 428

Collection: Photographs

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Five police officers are seen standing for their picture. L-R: Don Ott, Harry Peterson, Louis Jack Richards, Grady Pardue, and Capt. James B. Stine. They are in full uniform.

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Date: November 1931

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Date: November 1931

Subjects: Ott, Donald; Peterson, Harry; Richards, Louis Jack; Pardue, Grady; Stine, James B.

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 991

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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Date: April 17, 1932

Subjects: Bertolina, Leo; Cayer, Ross E. Med; Edwards, Paul; Haines, Henry W; Ott, Donald; Nellis, Jim M; Pardue, Grady; Police Department; Richards, Louis Jack; Stine, Jack

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 427

Collection: Photographs

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Jerry Selmer age 1 circa 1934. Jerry Selmer and Doris Selmer were longtime members and officers of Friends of the Library.

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Date: 1934

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Date: 1934

Subjects: Friends of the Library; Friends of the Arcadia Public Library; Selmer, Jerry

Physical Description: 8.5 x 10 b&w

ID: 2263

Collection: Photographs

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Doris Selmer age 1. Jerry Selmer and Doris Selmer were longtime members and officers of Friends of the Library. circa 1935.

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Date: 1935

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Date: 1935

Subjects: Friends of the Library; Friends of the Arcadia Public Library; Selmer, Doris

Physical Description: 8.5 x 10 color

ID: 2263A

Collection: Photographs

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"King of Sports," Arcadia's float entry in the 1936 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, featured three horses at the starting gate with children riding them.

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Date: January 1936

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Date: January 1936

Subjects: Tournament of Roses-Floats-1936

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1288

Collection: Photographs

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Aerial view looking north over flooded Santa Anita Wash looking upstream. Street cutting across photo closest to bottom is Huntington Drive. The next crossing upstream carries Santa Fe Railroad track. The last crossing that is clearly visible is Pacific Electric Railroad bridge. North/south street crossing Huntington Drive nearest wash would be Fifth Avenue. Foothill Boulevard is just barely visible near top of photo.

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Date: March 3, 1938

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Date: March 3, 1938

Subjects: Aerial Photo Collection; Aerial views; Fifth Avenue; Flood control; Foothill Boulevard; Huntington Drive; Railroads; Santa Anita Wash

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 809

Collection: Photographs

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View NW up flooded Santa Anita Wash from above East bank below Duarte Road, probably the street seen crossing photo from right to left about half way down. Nest crossing north with dark bridge, is Santa Fe Railroad tracks; next we believe to be for a pipeline; last clearly visible crossing is for Pacific Electric Railroad tracks. Photo was taken following extreme flooding in 1938.

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Date: March 3, 1938

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Date: March 3, 1938

Subjects: Flood control

Physical Description: 5x7 b&w

ID: 810

Collection: Photographs

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A doctor checks hand of evacuees as they line up near Pacific Electric Railroad cars which brought them to Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Military personnel look on.

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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: 667

Collection: Photographs

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Three men, three women, and two children are seen walking on grounds of Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. The San Gabriel Mountains loom up behind them.

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Date: April 1942

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Date: April 1942

Subjects: Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese-Recreation; Santa Anita Park-1942-1945

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 671

Collection: Photographs

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Groups of six Japanese men seen hauling sand in a large wheel barrow and shoveling it. Santa Anita Race Track Club House is behind them. 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-Construction & maintenance; Santa Anita Park-1942-1945

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 676

Collection: Photographs

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Home and office of Dr. Fletcher Sanborn on NE corner of First and Wheeler. Note his professional sign on the lawn. There is chicken-wire fence showing in front. This house had many lives; its last was home for H.O.Y. Clinic until this was torn down about 1977.

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Unidentified sheepherder who would bring his flock to the fields across from Mauch ranch at Holly Avenue and Palm Avenue. He would bring the sheep after the field crop had been harvested to let them graze on stubble. Dog is also visible next to sheepherder.

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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.

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Five police officers are seen standing for their picture. L-R: Don Ott, Harry Peterson, Louis Jack Richards, Grady Pardue, and Capt. James B. Stine. They are in full uniform.

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Jerry Selmer age 1 circa 1934. Jerry Selmer and Doris Selmer were longtime members and officers of Friends of the Library.

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Doris Selmer age 1. Jerry Selmer and Doris Selmer were longtime members and officers of Friends of the Library. circa 1935.

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"King of Sports," Arcadia's float entry in the 1936 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, featured three horses at the starting gate with children riding them.

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A doctor checks hand of evacuees as they line up near Pacific Electric Railroad cars which brought them to Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Military personnel look on.

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Three men, three women, and two children are seen walking on grounds of Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. The San Gabriel Mountains loom up behind them.

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Groups of six Japanese men seen hauling sand in a large wheel barrow and shoveling it. Santa Anita Race Track Club House is behind them. Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese.

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