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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

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1. "The late Clara Baldwin Stocker." News photo, April 1934. Original and a copy.

2. "Mrs. Stocker in Buick little 6," Monrovia Messenger, March 17, 1916.

3. "Court decision ruled in Clara Baldwin's favor." Pacific Coast Hotel and Apartment Record, 1916.

4. "Says Mrs. Stocker in incompetent." Arcadia Journal, November 30, 1918.

5. "Stuart Harold, who will take this part of Count Di Luna in 'Il Trovatore'. " (Harold Stocker - Clara's husband) The Valley Vista, February 24, 1900, p. 2.5

6. "Clara Baldwin." Summary of life of Clara Baldwin prepared by Sandy Snider, received April 1980.

7. Inventory of personal property, estate of Clara Baldwin. Transcribed by Sandy Snider from the Anita McClaughry Baldwin's manuscript collection at the Huntington Library. Received April 1980.

8. "Lucky Baldwin heiress passes." Los Angeles Times, February 28, 1929.

9. 1978 real estate ad on sale of home. Arcadia Tribune, October 29, 1978.

10. "Clara's cottage is seeking new owners." Pasadena Star News, December 9, 1984.

11. "50 years ago today - February 1913." Los Angeles Times, February 1963.

12. Studio shot of Clara Baldwin found by local history expert. Photo of Clara Baldwin and article concerning Baldwin and Jack McCaskill. Arcadia Tribune, March 22, 1987, page A1.

13. Clara's home built in 1907 by Colonel Northum.

14. Coldwell Banker advertising brochure for Clara Baldwin Stocker's "Twin Oaks" estate at 291 W. Foothill Boulevard. 1984.

15. Copies of photographs of Clara Baldwin housed in the Arboretum Historical files. Acquired 1995.

16. Information from the MCLS Reference Service on Walter McGinley, manager of the Baldwin-Stocker estates until Clara's death in 1929. (1) Los Angeles Times, September 19, 1932, p. 14. (2) California in the South by John Steven McGroarty, Volume V, Biographies, p. 285-288, c. 1935.

17. Manuscript "My Inheritance" by Rosebudd Doble Mullender with cover letter to Baldwin M. Baldwin. Original given to Arboretum by Hugh and Anne Baldwin Purcell. Anne received the manuscript from her father, Baldwin M. Baldwin. The manuscript describes Rosebudd's relationship with her mother Clara Baldwin Stocker. circa 1938-1939.

18. "DAR chapter to visit Clara Baldwin's home." Arcadia Tribune, January 13, 1985, p. A-7.

19. Coldwell Banker advertisements for the sale of Clara Baldwin Stocker's home "Twin Oaks" located at 291 Foothill Blvd. Includes description of all rooms in the house. Kim Atkinson-Melin, realtor. c1984 (6 items)

20. Letter to Kim Atkinson at Coldwell Banker Realty from J. Lyle Cunningham, President of the Arcadia Historical Society stating the $1,400,000 asking price for the Clara Baldwin property was greater than the City of Arcadia could afford to pay. July 9, 1984.

21. Information on Colonel Robert Northam who originally built the Clara Baldwin Stocker house at 291 West Foothill Boulevard. History of Hollywood by Edwin O. Palmer, pages 106-107, 132-133.

22. "Simple service marks obsequies of Mrs. Stocker." Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1929.

23. Who was Clara Baldwin Stocker? By Galen Patterson, Arcadia Weekly, April 11, 2019.

Subjects

Baldwin, Clara

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