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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.

Subjects

Baldwin, Elias J.- Horses and Horse Racing

Item ID

26AF

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1. "The Santa Anita Rancho." By Percy Bonebrake. Seven pages.

2. "Caminos - Pioneering with the Paynes (Dee M. Payne), 1907-1947." Published by the Arcadia Historical Society.

3. "Tales of Ben Benadum, Parts I, II and III." Arcadia Tribune August 11 and 14, 1968.

4. "From the notebook of Bruce R. Wetmore, Part 1." No date, four pages.

5. "From the notebook of Bruce R. Wetmore, Part 2." No date, six pages.

6. Shiershke, R. M. - Family History. Beginning narration to be supplemented. Received July, 1978.

7. "Reminiscences of boyhood in Arcadia." Arcadia Tribune, September 21, 1978.

8. "Arcadia city father taps old memories (James A. Stoker)." Arcadia Tribune, August 10, 1967. Two copies.

9. "Arcadia 'just growed like little topsy' (R.H. Schwartzkopf)." Pasadena Star News, January 1950.

10. "Arcadian tells lot of history (Tom Hefferon)." Daily News Post, January 4, 1968.

11. "Ray Dorn, a key figure in Arcadia's life style." Arcadia Tribune, August 11, 1971.

12. Personal recollections of Ranelds Haag. Four page letter from Haag to cousin Alice Schrock, December 1982.

13. "R.H. Schwartzkopf: Pioneer Arcadia Developer." Three pages of conversation compiled by Nancy Hutton, while talking with subject, Summer 1954.

14. Personal recollections of Vera Van Houten Van Iwaarden, November 1980.

15. Personal recollections of Laura Kreutzkamp Belden, daughter of Arcadia Santa Fe Railway agent, 1909-1915. Two pages from an interview with Pat McAdam, November 1980.

16. Interview with Gladys Daniels (Mrs. Albert) conducted by Pat McAdam, February 13, 1981.

17. Recollections of Adrian Winkler as told to Pat McAdam, January 1981.

18. Recollections of Grace Cook, daughter of Jim Duff. News article, no date.

19. Miscellaneous recollections of Arcadia residents during the 1920's. One page of excerpts from long oral interviews conducted by high school students. Use proper names indicated on this page to look up other files on these individuals.

20. Background of Carl Ettensperger, owner of a dairy originally on Sixth and Valnett, circa 1920. Information given by his daughter-in-law, May 1981.

21. Anonymous recollections from the 1930's and 1940's.

22. Recollections of Ava Fickling/ Letter written by subject circa 1966-1967 regarding her father's life and work as foreman of the Lucky Baldwin Rancho.

23. Recollections of Harriet Jordan Mooney. Letter written by subject to Pat McAdam, April 7, 1982.

24. Recollections of Reid Greer, December 1981.

25. Letter from Leon F. Case dated November 12, 2000. With computer enhanced pictures from Leon Case's childhood in Arcadia, with some captions: images of Leon Case at Santa Anita Motor Inn, children on horseback, his mother in 1944.

26. Musings by Jerry Selmer, an article from the Friends of the Library newsletter "Among Friends," Feb-Mar 2010, about Santa Anita Park as a 'relocation center' during World War II. Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese.

Subjects

Personal Narratives (SEE ALSO - Oral History)

Item ID

102AF

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1. "Behind famous trotters with Budd Doble." Articles written by daughter Rosebudd Doble Mullender and excerpts by Bill Brandt, from his radio broadcast of April 24, 1946.

2. "King of Sports: An introduction to horseracing." Booklet prepared by TRA Service Bureau and distributed by Santa Anita Park, 32 pages.

Subjects

Horse Racing

Item ID

126AF

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note: For Pressbooks/Media Guide, see Arcadia History Box 46.

1. Oak Tree Meeting. Los Angeles Times March 17, 1969.

2. No horsing around at parimutuel window. Arcadia Tribune December 8, 1977.

3. Oak Tree - Santa Anita. Promotional brochure for October 8 - November 7, 1976.

4. $350,000 National Thoroughbred Championship. Brochure outlining conditions of race and offering histories of those horses invited. November 1, 1975.

5. Oak Tree's 1981 Season to be longest, richest ever. Arcadia Tribune special supplement September 27, 1981.

6. Oak Tree Racing Association. Brown-covered pictorial brochure with background of each Board Member. 1981.

7. The Breeders Cup, October 19-30, 1986. Published as a special supplement to the Star News and Foothill Inter-City newspapers.

8. 20th Anniversary Breeders' Cup event ticket holder. Oak Tree at Santa Anita, October 25, 2003.

Subjects

Santa Anita Park-Oak Tree Racing Association

Item ID

204AF

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Santa Anita Park – Oak Tree Racing Association. Press Books/Yearbooks/Media Guides/Paddock. 1972 -

Subjects

Santa Anita Park – Oak Tree Racing Association.

Location

History Room

Box Number

Box 46

Shelf Number

Shelf C2

Item ID

356AF

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