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Workman is seen adding carved detailing to railing on top floor of Santa Anita Santa Fe Station as it is rebuilt on grounds of Arboretum. Station was "rescued" from path of Foothill Freeway and relocated at Arboretum.

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Date
c.1970

  1 image

Date
c.1970
Subjects
Railroads-Arcadia Santa Anita Station
Physical Description
6x7 b&w
ID
1143
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

People sit on benches and on the grass at Arcadia County Park enjoying a concert in the park. Orchestra leader (in white) is not identified.

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Date
July 1956

  1 image

Date
July 1956
Subjects
Arcadia County Park
Recreation
Physical Description
6x6 b&w
ID
1144
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Photo of some forms showing the regulations under which Americans lived during World War II. On top is a War Ration Book. Next item is the Proclamation that decreed the West Coast Blackout area where light at night was required to be blocked to the outside. The final item is a War Damage Insurance Policy.

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Date
c.1942

  1 image

Date
c.1942
Subjects
Arcadia(City)-History-1940-1949
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1145
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Arcadia Community Theater Players prepare for the play,"Visit to a small planet" by Gore Vidal. L-R are: Don Owens, Ron Brown, Donna Good, Doug Lance, and Diane Flaaten.

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Date
c.1960's

  1 image

Date
c.1960's
Subjects
Theater
Owens, Don
Brown, Ron
Good, Donna
Lance, Doug
Flaaten, Diane
Physical Description
6x6 b&w
ID
1146
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Brick wall on Campus Drive side of Arcadia High School that is in front of Administration Buildings. On the wall are metal letters, spelling Arcadia High School.

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Date
c.1965

  1 image

Date
c.1965
Subjects
Arcadia High School
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1147
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Photo of painting of Bonita Hotel done by Edna Lenz (original is part of Historical Paintings Collection at APL). We have not been able to learn what she used to copy this from.

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Date
c.1900

  1 image

Date
c.1900
Subjects
Bonita Hotel
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1148
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

View from tracks toward Southern Pacific Freight Depot which was at 35 Santa Clara Street. It is the low building closest to the camera. There are two other warehouse type buildings seen beyond, also one box car sits on a siding.

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Date
c.1930

  1 image

Date
c.1930
Subjects
Railroads
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1149
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

View across Arcadia taken from Chantry Flats Road at night. Long diagonal streak starting near bottom of lower right, marks Santa Anita Avenue.

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Date
c.1952

  1 image

Date
c.1952
Subjects
Aerial Photo Collection
Aerial views
Arcadia(City)-History-1950-1959
Chantry Flats Road
Physical Description
5x10 b&w
ID
1150
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Arcadia Feed & Seed Store located at 145 E. Huntington Drive and owned by Roy Pike and Donald A. Strawn. In 1981 this was called Better Gardens Nursery.

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Date
c.1953

  1 image

Date
c.1953
Subjects
Arcadia Seed & Feed Store
Stores
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1151
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

View up Oakwood Avenue from Sierra Madre Blvd. following a snowfall. Note Santa Anita Ave. on the left marked by eucalyptus trees. Snow in the San Gabriel Mountains.

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Date
c. Feb. 1949

  1 image

Date
c. Feb. 1949
Subjects
The Highlands
Climate
Snow
Physical Description
8x10 b&w poor quality
ID
1152
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Fourteen officers on duty in Washington D.C. Only one identified is Capt. Thomas A. Grant, Quartermaster at Ross Field Balloon School in 1919 (on extreme left, front). Identification on back of photo is reversed, given as from within the photo.

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Date
c.1917-1919

  1 image

Date
c.1917-1919
Subjects
Balloon School
Grant, Thomas A
Physical Description
6x8 b&w
ID
1153
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Only photo in Library Collection showing Free balloon training at Ross Field (all other are fixed). Balloon is some distance off the ground and displays an American flag on the right side.

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Date
1918

  1 image

Date
1918
Subjects
Balloon School
Physical Description
7x8 b&w
ID
1154
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

19 officers are in hangar at Ross Field in Arcadia as part of their training as Reserve Officers Balloon Personnel. J.H. Hoeppel in white shirt is on the right (kneeling). Lt.C.P. Kane, was in charge of the class. He is 4th man from left (next to balloon) in second row.

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Date
1927

  1 image

Date
1927
Subjects
Balloon School
Hoeppel, John H.
Kane, C.P.
Physical Description
10x10 b&w badly cracked and broken
ID
1155
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Group of 16 faculty members from First Avenue School pictured. Front row, L-R: Fannig Duvall, Elvira Orsburn, Faye Penny, Genevieve McMahon, Virna Ruth, Ethel Flory, unknown, Dorothy May Butts, and Thelma Johnson. Back row, L-R: unknown, Walter Coombs, Etta Russell White, Helen Rinde Diedrich, Agnes McInturff, unknown, Miriam Haddox Wibeck, unknown, unknown, unknown, Frank Boyer, unknown, Elmer E. Westerhouse, unknown, Constance Ellison Rose, unknown.

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Date
c.1938

  1 image

Twenty nine students with teacher Blanche Moore in a group photo. The students appear to be in about 4th grade. Student names appear on the back of the photo, identified by Dorothy Butts in 1982. School is not identified.

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Date
c.1943

  1 image

Date
c.1943
Subjects
Schools - Students
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1158
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Photo taken by TABER (studio) shows 31 of Elias J. Baldwin's African-American employees. Elias J. Baldwin hired them from the south in 1886 to come work on the Baldwin Ranch. There seems to be only one man in photo. All others are women and children. They are standing next to a building with a long porch; doors and windows open off of it. San Gabriel Mountains are seen in background.

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Date
c.1897

  1 image

Date
c.1897
Subjects
Baldwin Ranch-Blacks
African Americans
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1159
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Department heads pictured in front of City Council Building. L-R: Steve Larson (Personnel); Jim Domney (Library); Jerry Collins (Recreation); Jay Corey (Redevelopment); Steve Bocian (Administrative Assistant); Jerry Gardner (Fire Chief); Bill Woolard (Planning); Bob Berlien (Water); Neal Johnson (Police);Jerry Shuster (Finance); Chester Howard (Public Works); Charles Mitchell (Police Chief); and George Watts (City Manager). Copy 1 acquired March 1982. Copy 2 acquired from Recreation Department November 2013.

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Date
Feb. 1982

  1 image

Anita Baldwin showing one of her prize-winning English bulldogs. Dog handler/trainer is unidentified.

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Date
c.1915

  1 image

Date
c.1915
Subjects
Baldwin, Anita
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1161
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

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
Images
Less detail

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