Arcadia Public Library, Arcadia History Collection

Contact Information

LA as Subject
Address
20 West Duarte Road Arcadia, CA 91006
Hours
Monday - Thursday, 10am - 9pm; Friday and Saturday 10am - 6pm
Contact
Ms. Yvonne Ng
Librarian
yng@arcadiaca.gov
Alternate Contact
Website

Arcadia Public Library, Arcadia History Collection

Arcadia Public Library, Arcadia History Collection
20 West Duarte Road
Arcadia, CA. 91006

Access and Management

Access

Available to the public?
No
Available to outside researchers?
Yes
Reservations required?
Yes
Onsite technology available
Yes
Catalog System
InMagic
Repository
Yes

Management

Archive / Collection information

The Arcadia History Collection is a repository of photographs, scrapbooks, city directories, newspapers on microfilm, and ephemera documenting the history of the City of Arcadia. Its archival holdings include a bound volume, with photographs, of the issues published in 1918 and 1919 of the Arcadian Observer, the official newspaper of the United States Army Balloon School in Arcadia; issues (on microfilm) of the Santa Anita Pacemaker, a newspaper written and published by Japanese Americans while interned at the Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese in 1942, along with a collection of photographs taken at the assembly center by the War Relocation Authority in 1942; photographs and materials about the Santa Anita Racetrack which date from 1934 to the present; and a scrapbook and photographs about the William Parker Lyon Pony Express Museum in Arcadia, which flourished in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Organization type