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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
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Arcadia City Seal
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ID
574
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Photographs
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Volume I no. 1 issue of first Arcadia newspaper, THE ARCADIA BULLETIN. Paper included an article on the opening of Clara Villa which opened May 3, 1904. The paper has photos of five members of the Board of Trustees (now City Council) and also one of Arcadia's first City Marshall, Elmer Anderson and his brother, Charles Anderson, City Treasurer.

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Date
May 7, 1904
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Date
May 7, 1904
Subjects
Newspapers-Arcadia Bulletin
Anderson, Elmer
Anderson, Charles
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ID
1084
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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
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Restaurants-White City
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ID
929
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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
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1
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Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin on left and Richard F. Carman Sr., one of America's early horsemen. Photo was taken probably about 1907 and printed in newspaper of March 1937 at the time of Carman's death. Carman's horses won four races and placed second in two others on opening day of Baldwin's Santa Anita Race Track.

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Date
1907
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Date
1907
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Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"
Carman, Richard F., Sr.
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ID
933
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Newspaper page from sports section of L.A. Sunday Times reporting opening of Santa Anita Park, built by "Lucky" Baldwin and opened December 1907. See more legible hard copy in VF Baldwin, Elias J.-Horses and horse racing.

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Date
December 8, 1907
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Date
December 8, 1907
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Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-1907-1912
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ID
551
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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
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Motion pictures
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ID
852
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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
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Ainsworth, Harry
Ainsworth, Hattie
Highland Oaks Elementary School
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ID
366
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View across swimming pool built for the men of Ross Field Balloon School by Anita Baldwin and the community. It was on possibly opening day as there are throngs of guests looking on. This was located where present parking lot of Elks building is located. H.F.Paden in 1978 told us there was also a pool formed of stone in what is now County Park area which was an officers' pool.

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Date
1918
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Date
1918
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Balloon School
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ID
223
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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
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ID
1252
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Elected City Clerk

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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 13, 1918
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p. 1
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Arcadia Journal
Date
April 13, 1918
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City employees - Grimes, Ethel
Item ID
3844AN
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Newspaper Index
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Election

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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
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p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Council, 1903 - 1969
Arthur, E. A.
Item ID
3775AN
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Newspaper Index
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General information

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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
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p. 1
Subjects
City Council, 1903 - 1969
Harris, O. D.
Item ID
3793AN
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Newspaper Index
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Elected

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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
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p. 1
Subjects
City Council, 1903 - 1969
Millard, William
Item ID
3808AN
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Newspaper Index
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Elected

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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Council, 1903 - 1969
Simms, D. W.
Item ID
3825AN
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Newspaper Index
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Elected

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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City Council, 1903 - 1969
Taylor, W. H.
Item ID
3826AN
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Newspaper Index
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City Attorney

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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
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p. 1
Subjects
City employees - Dunn, W. F.
Item ID
3840AN
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City Engineer

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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
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p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
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p. 1
Subjects
City employees - Gierlich, H. S.
Item ID
3842AN
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Newspaper Index
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Water Department Superintendent

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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
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Newspaper
Arcadia Journal
Date
April 20, 1918
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
City employees - Lee, Scott
Item ID
3848AN
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Newspaper Index
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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
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1075
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