Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin's daughter Anita sitting on grass beside lake with five mastiff dogs. What appears to be a workman stands at left. Anita would be age eleven in this photo.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs112
- Date
- March 3, 1887
1 image
- Date
- March 3, 1887
- Subjects
- Baldwin, Anita
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w hard board professional photo taken by Shaffner Studio, 500 Sixth St., Los Angeles, CA, also 2 prints
- ID
- 112
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Cedar Walk on Ranch. Hugo Reid Adobe appears to be directly at the end of this walk. Note bell from San Gabriel Mission hanging in shelter made for it. Framed photos are of Baldwin's three hotels: Tallac at Lake Tahoe, Baldwin Hotel & Theater, San Francisco, and the Oakwood, Arcadia.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs128
- Date
- February 12, 1894
1 image
- Date
- February 12, 1894
- Subjects
- Rancho Santa Anita
- Baldwin Ranch
- Physical Description
- 8x20 b&w
- ID
- 128
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Four administrators from Taiwan's Ming Tao High School visited the Arcadia High School on November 3 as part of their tour of American schools. They praised the school's independent students, lack of fences and extensive computer system.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3075
- Newspaper
- Arcadia Tribune
- Date
- November 12, 1898
- Pages
- p. A-1
- Subjects
- Schools - Arcadia High School
- Item ID
- 2997AN
- Collection
- Newspaper Index
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.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1093
- Date
- May 7, 1904
1 image
Close up of an ad that appeared in first issue of Arcadia Bulletin. Ad is for Clara Villa. It is billed as the "swellest resort in the San Gabriel Valley".
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1094
- Date
- May 7, 1904
1 image
- Date
- May 7, 1904
- Subjects
- Clara Villa
- Newspapers-Arcadia Bulletin
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w
- ID
- 1085
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Close up of ad in first Arcadia newspaper, Arcadia Bulletin. The ad is for the Bonita Hotel. Ben Newman is listed as proprietor.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1095
- Date
- May 7, 1904
1 image
- Date
- May 7, 1904
- Subjects
- Bonita Hotel
- Newspapers-Arcadia Bulletin
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w
- ID
- 1086
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Close up of five Board of Trustees for City of Arcadia (now, City Council). Upper left, Hiram Unruh; upper right, Melville Lawrence (manager of Oakwood Hotel). Lower left, Harold Stocker; lower right, George Lowen Tucker; center, E.J.Baldwin. This was from first issue of Arcadia Bulletin.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1096
- Date
- May 7, 1904
1 image
- Date
- May 7, 1904
- Subjects
- Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"
- Lawrence, Melville
- Stocker, Harold
- Tucker, George Lowen
- Unruh, Hiram Augustus
- Newspapers-Arcadia Bulletin
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w
- ID
- 1087
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Photo of first diploma issued by Arcadia school. It was made out to first graduate, Ellison Leake and signed by George Ethel Wayne, Principal.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs716
- Date
- June 3, 1905
1 image
- Date
- June 3, 1905
- Subjects
- Schools-History-1880's-1950
- Physical Description
- 3x5 b&w
- ID
- 712
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Eleven head of cattle photographed beneath oak trees and in front of barn. San Gabriel Mountains show in the background. Caption beneath reads: Pastoral corner of the ancient ranch.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs914
- Date
- 1906
1 image
Ten horses seen grazing in meadow beneath San Gabriel Mountains. Just to right of center (in trees) appears to be row of Lombardy Poplar trees seen in photo #913. Caption reads: Thoroughbreds in their pasture by Sierra Madre Mountains.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs922
- Date
- 1906
1 image
- Date
- 1906
- Subjects
- Rancho Santa Anita-1875-1909
- Physical Description
- 7x10 b&w
- ID
- 915
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Neatly white washed trunks of trees alongside a wall, with row of trees opposite is seen in this photo. Caption beneath reads: First Street Entrance To Fairyland Park, Baldwin's Ranch. This photo is an enlarged view of Photo #1353.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs930
- Date
- 1907
1 image
- Date
- 1907
- Subjects
- Fairyland Park
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w
- ID
- 923
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Copy of pages for part of first and second races from racing program for Santa Anita Park, April 13, 1909. Left hand page includes an ad for the Southern Pacific Railway.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1177
- Date
- 1909
1 image
Leo Bertolina (on left) and Jim Newton standing under a clump of pine trees drinking from bottles. There is a horse standing beyond trees. Back of card says:"area is just north of Foothill near First Avenue."
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs540
- Date
- 1909
1 image
- Date
- 1909
- Subjects
- Bertolina, Leo
- Newton, Jim
- Police Department
- Physical Description
- 3x5 b&w postcard
- ID
- 536
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Leo Bertolina on left amd Jim Newton standing beside Stone Canyon wall. Back of card places location as just north of Foothill near First Avenue.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs541
- Date
- 1909
1 image
- Date
- 1909
- Subjects
- Bertolina, Leo
- Newton, Jim
- Physical Description
- 3x5 b&w postcard
- ID
- 537
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
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.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs858
- Date
- 1909
1 image
- Date
- 1909
- Subjects
- Motion pictures
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w
- ID
- 852
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Photo showing wrecked automobile and a portion of the control tower alongside tracks near First Avenue and railroad crossing. Information on back of photo identifies it as Ben Newman's wrecked Buick hit by Santa Fe train.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs438
- Date
- 1910
1 image
- Date
- 1910
- Subjects
- Railroads
- Physical Description
- 3x5 b&w
- ID
- 436
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Students at Arcadia Grammar School, where present First Avenue Middle School is now. Built in 1907, this building replaced the packing shed school provided earlier by E.J. Baldwin. This school was located at the southwest corner of First Avenue and California Street. No identification of teachers or students.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs567
- Date
- Feb. 1911
1 image
- Date
- Feb. 1911
- Subjects
- Schools-History-1880s-1950
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w
- ID
- 563
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Clara Baldwin Stocker at the House of Mirrors at Coney Island. She is seen in reflection five times, seated at a table. Handwritten at bottom of photo is "Coney Island 1914."
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1561
- Date
- 1914
1 image
- Date
- 1914
- Subjects
- Baldwin Stocker, Clara
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w
- ID
- 1544
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Lightly poised upon a single branch of acacia, a yellow butterfly emerging from its chrysalis heralded the 1915 Pasadena Tournament of Roses float for the City of Arcadia. The entry was designed by Mrs. Anita Baldwin McClaughry. Formed of yellow roses, marigolds and pom pom chrysanthemums, the butterfly is emerging from a chrysalis of gray-green foliage nine feet in length. This was the first official City of Arcadia entry in the Rose Parade.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1290
- Date
- January 1915
1 image
- Date
- January 1915
- Subjects
- Tournament of Roses-Floats-1915
- Physical Description
- 8x10 b&w
- ID
- 1281
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
Photograph of a yacht. Handwriting along bottom of photo reads, "San Pedro 1915." Possibly the yacht Clara Baldwin Stocker was supposed to have purchased with part of her inheritance from her father, Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin.
https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1588
- Date
- 1915
1 image
- Date
- 1915
- Subjects
- Baldwin Stocker, Clara
- Physical Description
- 5x7 b&w
- ID
- 1572
- Collection
- Photographs
Images
