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Portion of Pony Express Museum given to miscellaneous collections. On left wall are what appear to be old photographs. There are many branding irons hanging from the ceiling. There is a large bell in foreground. There is an old doll carriage and a wooden rocker on the floor.

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Date
c.1940s

  1 image

Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
460
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Ramada Inn at 130 W. Huntington Drive. Photo taken from across Huntington Drive. Includes the sign and parking lot. Former location of Lyon's Pony Express Museum.

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Date
1979

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Date
1979
Subjects
Ramada Inn
Pony Express Museum
Physical Description
4x5 color
ID
1220
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Scale on display at Pony Express Museum. This is a photocopy. Original is in the Pony Express Museum Scrapbook, Box 31, in the Arcadia History Room shelf B.

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Date
c.1940s

  1 image

Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1867
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Train on track with William Parker Lyon standing alongside, outside Pony Express Museum. Engine has Eureka, Nevada painted on it. There are two cars attached to engine, one appears to be a baggage car, the other a passenger car. Note: on left side of photo a portion of Santa Anita Racetrack Clubhouse is shown. Engine #7 of the Eureka Palisades Railroad, in use in 1875, was salvaged from Palisades, Nevada.

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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
457
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

View down one long corridor of Pony Express Museum. In foreground is bar with saddle on it. On left is shown storefront of Mrs. E. Trabucco showing ladies wear, with Wells Fargo office replica just beside it. There are exhibits on back wall as well as wall on right.

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Date
c.1940s

  1 image

Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
467
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

View of bar and gambling facilities in one section of Pony Express Museum. Neither the bar nor the gaming equipment were in use, but were displays like all else. Photo shows roulette table in foreground, the bar on left side of photo, wheels of chance and two tables with chairs at back wall.

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Date
c.1940s

  1 image

Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
475
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

View of Indian Room at Pony Express Museum. In glass case in foreground are many arrow heads. In glass case on right side of photo are pieces of leather Indian dress. On wall above this case are spears. Also on display are baskets, bead work and some pottery.

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Date
c.1940s

  1 image

Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
472
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

View of long covered shed with ground floor used for housing stagecoach and wagons. Hanging from beams are harness with bells used on teams in years past to warn on-coming teams. The pride of the stage-lines, the famous Concord Coach made by Abbott & Downing in Concord, New Hampshire, circa 1860s, predominates the foreground. A line of Western Mudwagons appear in the rear.

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Date
c.1940s

  1 image

Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Stagecoaches
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
479
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View showing main entrance to Pony Express Museum. Sign on extreme left reads: This building moved from the old mining town of Bear Valley...etc. There is a sign designating entrance and indicating 25 cent fee. On right side of photo is shown a Black man carved which may have been a mast head of a ship.

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Date
c.1940s

  1 image

Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
466
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View shows a long room at Pony Express Museum with displays everywhere. Down center is room is a row of trunks of all sizes and shapes.

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Date
c.1940s

  1 image

Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
455
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

View west from near front entrance of Pony Express Museum. Shown on left is one wing of museum. On the right side of photo is the train.

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Date
1952

  1 image

Date
1952
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Physical Description
3 1/4 x 4 1/2 b&w
ID
483
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

William Parker Lyon on left shown holding main part of extremely long rifle and an unidentified man holding barrell of same rifle. They are shown outside one of the buildings of the Pony Express Museum.

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Date
c.1940s

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Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Lyon, William Parker
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
463
Collection
Photographs
Images
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William Parker Lyon, owner of Pony Express Museum, astride a large rocking horse. This photo was taken just outside main entrance.

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Date
c.1940s

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Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Lyon, William Parker
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
474
Collection
Photographs
Images
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William Parker Lyon, owner of Pony Express Museum, dressed in paisley vest with white shirt. He is using a juice or drink mixer with a hand crank, with two glasses (two drinks).

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs482
Date
c.1940s

  1 image

Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Lyon, William Parker
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
478
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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William Parker Lyon, owner of Pony Express Museum, pictured behind the counter of what seems to be a ladies apparel store. He is wearing a ladies hat with a large feather on it. On shelves behind him are many boxes designed to hold merchandise.

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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
477
Collection
Photographs
Images
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William Parker Lyon, owner of Pony Express Museum, playing cards at round table. Behind this is a billiard table and on wall behind him is a roulette wheel. He is dressed in top hat and other appropriate attire of a "card shark".

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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
473
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

William Parker Lyon, owner of Pony Express Museum, shown standing between two old fire engines in outside exhibit at the museum. Fire engines are standing in front of two cars of Narrow Gauge R.R. Train has painted on it: Eureka, Nevada Narrow Gauge. Mr. Lyon's shirt has insignia bearing letters L.E.

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Date
c.1940s

  1 image

Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Lyon, William Parker
Trains
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
468
Collection
Photographs
Images
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William Parker Lyon Pony Express Museum-entryway to exhibit room. Sign reads W. Parker Lyon, from which a bell hangs. Another sign reads Wells Fargo & Co Express. Watch or clock shaped signs read Ingersoll Watches and Sherrard Jeweler. Hobby horses and small wooden chairs on either side of the entrance. Print of this photo is in the W. Parker Lyon Pony Express Museum Scrapbook, Box 31, in History Room, Shelf B3.

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Date
c.1940s

  1 image

Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
456A
Collection
Photographs
Images
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William Parker Lyon seated in driver seat of a stagecoach hitched to a pair of what appears to be matching dappled grey horses made of wood or other ingredient. Coach has inscribed on side: Overland Stageline. Unidentified man is seated alongside Mr. Lyon.

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Date
c.1940s

  1 image

Date
c.1940s
Subjects
Pony Express Museum
Lyon, William Parker
Stagecoaches
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
465
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

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