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Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin, standing in front of Queen Anne Cottage. There are three unidentified women seated and one standing figure second from right, who appears to be daughter Anita at age eleven. See photo #112 as basis for indentification.

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Date
March 4, 1887

  1 image

Date
March 4, 1887
Subjects
Baldwin family
Queen Anne Cottage
Physical Description
8x10 b&w 1 hard board professional original taken by Shaffner Studio, 500 Sixth Street, Los Angeles, CA, also 2 print copies
ID
109
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Rowing on the lake in a boat named CLARA are Clara Baldwin Stocker (second from right), Lucky Baldwin's elder daughter; Clara's fourth husband, Harold Stocker (rowing); and several friends. A copy of this photo appears in the March 2, 1909 Los Angeles Daily Times pt.II p.8 with the following identification: FAMILY GROUP ON THE LAKE AT SANTA ANITA. Left to right, in boat - Mr. Mathews, Mrs. F.D. Black, Mr. Stocker ("Lucky's son-in-law), Mrs. H.C. Wyatt, in white; Mrs. Stocker (Lucky's daughter) and Mrs. Scott. There are seven people seated in the boat, but only six names are identified in the newspaper article. Article is in Arcadia History file Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky", number 58 ("His greatest race run, 'Lucky' loses.)

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Date
1894

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Date
1894
Subjects
Baldwin, Clara
Stocker, Harold
Rancho Santa Anita-1875-1909
Mathews, Mr.
Black, Mrs. F.D.
Wyatt, Mrs. H.C.
Scott, Mrs.
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1162
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

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.

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Date
February 12, 1894

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Date
February 12, 1894
Subjects
Rancho Santa Anita
Baldwin Ranch
Physical Description
8x20 b&w
ID
128
Collection
Photographs
Images
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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.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 12, 1898
Pages
p. A-1
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 12, 1898
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Arcadia High School
Item ID
2997AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Eight people standing or mounted on mule in front of large American flag which is hanging from a wire. Group apparently was on an excursion to Mt. Wilson. The three men on the right are all identified as McCoys across the face of the photo.

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Date
1902

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Date
1902
Subjects
McCoy, Arch
McCoy, Clyde
McCoy, John
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
402
Collection
Photographs
Images
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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.

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Date
May 7, 1904

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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
Less detail

Photo of first diploma issued by Arcadia school. It was made out to first graduate, Ellison Leake and signed by George Ethel Wayne, Principal.

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Date
June 3, 1905

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Date
June 3, 1905
Subjects
Schools-History-1880's-1950
Physical Description
3x5 b&w
ID
712
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Lovely lane lined on both sides with tall Lombardy Poplars. Man in light buggy is seen driving on the lane, away from camera. From the magazine Outing. According to Sandy Snider from the Arboretum, this lane was to the east of Old Ranch Road in early days of Ranch under Baldwin ownership.

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Date
1906

  1 image

Date
1906
Subjects
Rancho Santa Anita-1875-1909
Baldwin Ranch
Physical Description
7x10 b&w
ID
913
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Newspaper page from sports section of L.A. Sunday Times reporting opening of Santa Anita Park, built by "Lucky" Baldwin and opened December 1907. See more legible hard copy in VF Baldwin, Elias J.-Horses and horse racing.

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Date
December 8, 1907

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Date
December 8, 1907
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-1907-1912
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
551
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

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.

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Date
1909

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Date
1909
Subjects
Santa Anita Park-1907-1912
Railroads-Southern Pacific
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1168
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

Copy of 1 1/2 pages from the racing program for Santa Anita Park, April 13, 1909. Right hand page is an ad for Pacific Electric.

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Date
1909

  1 image

Date
1909
Subjects
Santa Anita Park-1907-1912
Railroads-Pacific Electric Railway
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1169
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Cover page of the Official Program for the Los Angeles Racing Association, Tuesday, April 13, 1909 at Santa Anita Park.

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Date
1909

  1 image

Date
1909
Subjects
Santa Anita Park-1907-1912
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1170
Collection
Photographs
Images
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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."

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Date
1909

  1 image

Date
1909
Subjects
Bertolina, Leo
Newton, Jim
Police Department
Physical Description
3x5 b&w postcard
ID
536
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Page from Los Angeles Times of March 21, 1909 telling of the coming end of racing at Santa Anita Park when State of California will close it with the ban on horse racing, April 20, 1909. See legible copy in VF Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and Horse Racing.

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Date
March 21, 1909

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Date
March 21, 1909
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-1907-1912
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
554
Collection
Photographs
Images
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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.

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Date
Feb. 1911

  1 image

Date
Feb. 1911
Subjects
Schools-History-1880s-1950
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
563
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Photo taken looking north from possibly Duarte Road, of 120 acres of tomatoes being grown on Baldwin Ranch land. In photo, highest mountain on right side of photo is Monrovia Peak. Big Santa Anita Canyon comes down to the left of it. Oversized.

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Date
1914

  1 image

Date
1914
Subjects
Rancho Santa Anita
Baldwin Ranch
San Gabriel Mountains
Physical Description
3x15 b&w
ID
124
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Clara Baldwin Stocker is seated in the back of a motor car, wearing a hat. The man behind the steering wheel is probably her husband, Harold Stocker. There are two other unidentified people at the rear of the vehicle and one unidentified woman seated on the running board in the front right corner of the photo. Handwriting on the bottom of the photo reads, "August 11th 1914."

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Date
August 11, 1914

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Date
August 11, 1914
Subjects
Baldwin Stocker, Clara
Stocker, Harold
Physical Description
5x7 b&w
ID
1568
Collection
Photographs
Images
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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.

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Date
January 1915

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Date
January 1915
Subjects
Tournament of Roses-Floats-1915
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1281
Collection
Photographs
Images
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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.

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Date
1915

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Date
1915
Subjects
Baldwin Stocker, Clara
Physical Description
5x7 b&w
ID
1572
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

View north toward mountains and Chantry Flats Road. From vicinity just east of Santa Anita, where present Orange Grove intersects, showing orange groves. An open field apparently planted to grain and having a large oak tree, would be present site of Highland Oaks School. Eucalyptus trees lining Santa Anita are on left in photo, this property belonged to Harry and Hattie Ainsworth.

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Date
1916

  1 image

Date
1916
Subjects
Ainsworth, Harry
Ainsworth, Hattie
Highland Oaks Elementary School
Physical Description
7x10 b&w
ID
366
Collection
Photographs
Images
Less detail

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