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Photo of Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin. Shown with large black hat. He is facing to the left.

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Date: c.1905

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Date: c.1905

Subjects: Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w vertical

ID: 504

Collection: Photographs

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Apparently photo of Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin taken beside lake on Baldwin Ranch when he was quite elderly. Printing across photo reads: Baldwins Ranch.

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Date: c.1907

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Date: c.1907

Subjects: Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 121

Collection: Photographs

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Photo taken from Arcadia Tribune issue of August 3, 1950 that shows Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin standing in front of Queen Anne Cottage with H.H. Cross, an artist who painted a number of important pictures of the Baldwin Ranch. Hal Roach, editor of Arcadia Tribune at this time, does not remember who brought original photo to them.

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Date: c.1885-88

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Date: c.1885-88

Subjects: Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"; Cross, H.H.

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1051

Collection: Photographs

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Lucky Baldwin's original race track showing the grandstand.

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Date: c. 1906

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Date: c. 1906

Subjects: Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky" - Horses and horse racing

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 864

Collection: Photographs

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Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin standing on porch of Hugo Reid Adobe holding hand of granddaughter Dextra Baldwin, who appears to be about 5 years old. Grandson Baldwin M. Baldwin is in wicker baby carriage and is about 1 1/2 or 2 years old.

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Date: c.1906

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Date: c.1906

Subjects: Baldwin family; Baldwin, Baldwin M.; Baldwin, Dextra; Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"; Hugo Reid Adobe

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 104

Collection: Photographs

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Baldwin, Elias J.- Horses and Horse Racing

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Contents: 1. Bibliography on Baldwin's horses, race horses and racing. 2. "Baldwin's racers: a good season for Santa Anita Stable." News clip, October 9, 1890. 3. "Cruzados is a crack colt." San Francisco Examiner, December 22, 1901. 4. Catalog of thoroughbred yearlings ... property of E.J. Baldwin, Auc…

Contents: 1. Bibliography on Baldwin's horses, race horses and racing.; 2. "Baldwin's racers: a good season for Santa Anita Stable." News clip, October 9, 1890.; 3. "Cruzados is a crack colt." San Francisco Examiner, December 22, 1901.; 4. Catalog of thoroughbred yearlings ... property of E.J. Baldwin, Auction 1897. 32 page booklet copied at the Bancroft Library, acquired April 1982.; 5. Jockey license of Richard Herman Schierske signed by E.J. "Lucky" Baldwin. Copy of original loaned by his son, R. Schierske.; 6. Marriage license for Herman Schierske, jockey for E.J. Baldwin, February, 1908. Copy of original.; 7. "Rider killed at Santa Anita; no racing today on account of death of E.J. Baldwin." San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 1909.; 8. "Baldwin horses were record makers." San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 1909.; 9. "Breeder's meet opens a triumph." Oakland, CA Tribune, August 22, 1915.; 10. "Ed Cerbin secures fine stock of horses." San Francisco Bulletin, February 25, 1916.; 11. "Four American Derby winners buried under Maltese Cross." Arcadia News Forecast, December 7, 1934.; 12. "Lucky Baldwin days at Santa Anita." Westways, December 1935, Page 26-27.; 13. Copies from 'The History of Thoroughbred Racing in America' by W.H.P. Robertson regarding Baldwin horses and horse racing. 798.4 R.; 14. "E.J. Baldwin, Esq." From 'The Builders of the Commonwealth' by H.H. Bancroft.; 15. "Races fulfill Lucky's dream." Arcadia Tribune, April 13, 1978.; 16. "A history of the thoroughbred in California, Part II." The Thoroughbred of California, December 1978.; 17. "What Rey El Santa Anita did for California racing." Los Angeles Times, June 16, 1939.; 18. "Pioneer horseman not forgotten in valley." Pasadena Star News, October 18, 1939.; 19. "Lucky Baldwin's old colors in national racing museum." Press release from Santa Anita Park.; 20. "The thing I guess I'm most proud of happened in 1967 at Lexington, Kentucky." New Yorker, April 13, 1981. Article about relocating the grave of Isaac Murphy to Lexington.; 21. Typed information on Baldwin jockeys.; 22. "Lucky Baldwin's racing school." The Thoroughbred of California, June 1994, pages 38-46. Article on school; jockey Isaac Murphy; and nationally famous farrier, John Isaac Wesley Fisher.; 23. Article on E.J. Baldwin's famous horse, Volante. Monrovia Planet, March 12, 1887, page 2.; 24. "Baldwin's stables." Monrovia Planet, April 30, 1887, page 1.; 25. "The Santa Anita Stables." Monrovia Messenger, April 18, 1889, page 6.; 26. "Santa Anita Stables." Monrovia Messenger, January 1, 1891, page 2.; 27. "The golden age of the California horse." The Thoroughbred of California, February 1947. John Hervey article includes Lucky Baldwin.; 28. Article on thoroughbred industry by Carleton F. Burke. The Thoroughbred of California, May 1947.; 29. "Rey El Santa Anita is dead." Los Angeles Daily Times, July 2, 1919.; 30. Burke, Carleton, "Pastime of Millions," The Thoroughbred, Volume IV, Number 6, page 10+.; 31. Ibid. The Thoroughbred. Volume IV, Number 8, page 16+.; 32 Ibid. The Thoroughbred. Volume IV, Number 10, page 14+.; 33. Ibid. The Thoroughbred. Volume IV, Number 11, page 8+.; 34. Ibid. The Thoroughbred. Volume IV, Number 12-13, Page 16+.; 35. Ibid. The Thoroughbred. Volume IV, Number 14, page 26+.; 36. Lucky Baldwin's Flyers: Volante and the others to leave Santa Anita. New York Times, April 16, 1877.; 37. Will please racegoers: Lucky Baldwin's horses barred from all race tracks. May not be able to race abroad. Santa Anita horses have long been under suspicion. New York Times, October 21, 1895.; 38. Stewards reply to Baldwin: decline to reconsider their decision to reject his entries. New York Times, October 23, 1895.; 39. Santa Anita Track has no prospects (tells of the coming end of racing at Baldwin's Santa Anita Park when State of California will close it with the ban on horse racing, effective April 20, 1909). Los Angeles Times, March 21, 1909. One copy is article itself, one copy is of the whole page view.; 40. Fortunes are lost or won at Arcadia. Newspaper page from sports section of Los Angeles Sunday Times reporting opening of Santa Anita Park, built by "Lucky" Baldwin and opened December 1907. Dated December 8, 1907. These are more legible copies of photo 551.; 41. Biography and images of Alexander MacMillan Allan, the architect of Lucky Baldwin's original Santa Anita Race Track. Image of race track in 1907. He lived at Point Lobos in Monterey County, California.