Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin in carriage on his original track which was adjacent to Michillinda and near Colorado Blvd. With him is W. McClelland, Baldwin's horse trainer at this time. There are 16 other people in photo; some are mounted on horses, some standing. Etched on the photo is "On the track - Lucky Baldwins Place. S.G.V.R.R."
Sheep grazing beneath trees and apparently alongside a body of water (note extreme lower right section of photo). Believed to be on Rancho Santa Anita. Caption beneath one copy reads: "A pastoral scene on Santa Anita Rancho in 1890, just north of present Colorado Place."
Girl Scout Amy Nunn, 15, is the youngest recipient of the Gold Award, the highest achievement of the Sierra Madre Girl Scout Council. She collected almost $6000 at a canned food drive at Santa Anita Church for the Arcadia Welfare and Thrift Shop.
Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin on left and Richard F. Carman Sr., one of America's early horsemen. Photo was taken probably about 1907 and printed in newspaper of March 1937 at the time of Carman's death. Carman's horses won four races and placed second in two others on opening day of Baldwin's Santa Anita Race Track.
Cast of moving picture, THE HEART OF A RACE TOUT, the first moving picture made ENTIRELY in California. It was made by Selig Polyscope Co.of Chicago who had opened a studio in downtown Los Angeles. The movie was made to take advantage of the Racetrack built in Arcadia by E.J."Lucky" Baldwin which opened in 1907.
Elks barbecue (or Mason's) held at "Y" at Colorado Place and Huntington Drive. Man in middle is Leo Charles Bertolina. Donor wrote on back of original:"Note Baldwin caretaker in right background." (We do not see him.) Large roasting pits covered to keep heat in, are seen in the foreground.
Anita Baldwin McClaughry, husband Hull McClaughry and son Baldwin taken at San Francisco's Panama Pacific Exposition, 1915. They are seated in a wicker carriage seat of some sort.
Page 19 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Featuring picture and description of The Observer. Negative and print were made for the grant funded Local History Digital Resources Project 2006-2007. A digital image of this photograph is file name: caarpl_119 on LHDRP 2006-2007 Disc 9 of 14. See black box labeled Arcadia History Room Media Box.
Page 17 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Featuring photographs of U.S. Balloon School officers, all lieutenants. H.G. Verbeck, Joseph Sullivan, John Hahn (or Rahn?), Harry W. Warner, Harold K. Hine, Newton B. Drury, Milton E. Keyser, James A. Christie, Ed Welch, Hiram B. Lillie, F.C. Wiggins C.O., A.M. Lynch, Dunlap C. Clark, George Whistler, Lloyd Graybill, and Ed Burke. Negative and print were made for the grant funded Local History Digital Resources Project 2006-2007. A digital image of this photograph is file name: caarpl_118 on LHDRP 2006-2007 Disc 9 of 14. See black box labeled Arcadia History Room Media Box.
Page 15 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Featuring photographs of U.S. Balloon School officers, all lieutenants. L. Heath, J.J. Fitzgerald, H.C. Hahlbeck, Stanley W. Hahn, George K. Barnes, Robert Drake, Rolla W. Wybrant, William D. Geiger, Harry R. Rafferty, Wayne Burbank, T.N. Wrenn, George Parish, William Barnard, Charles N. White, William B. Gemmill, and William Simpson. Negative and print were made for the grant funded Local History Digital Resources Project 2006-2007. A digital image of this photograph is file name: caarpl_117 on LHDRP 2006-2007 Disc 9 of 14. See black box labeled Arcadia History Room Media Box.
Page 13 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Featuring photographs of U.S. Balloon School officers, all lieutenants: N.C. Farnum, Joseph Raymond Williams, R. Lauch Benson, Carleton T. Olds, Clarence Lober, Richard Lewis, Charles Irwin, W.S. Brown, Larkin O'Neill, N. Roman, N.J. Van Valkenberg, Roy Parker, and Carl McCarthy. Negative and print were made for the grant funded Local History Digital Resources Project 2006-2007. A digital image of this photograph is file name: caarpl_116 on LHDRP 2006-2007 Disc 9 of 14. See black box labeled Arcadia History Room Media Box.
Page 10 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Featuring list of YMCA Staff Personnel, article about American Red Cross and photograph of Captain Henry C. Deknatel, A.R.C. Negative and print were made for the grant funded Local History Digital Resources Project 2006-2007. A digital image of this photograph is file name: caarpl_115 on LHDRP 2006-2007 Disc 9 of 14. See black box labeled Arcadia History Room Media Box.
Page 9 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Featuring photographs of U.S. Balloon School officers Lieutenant Cecil Sherman, Lieutenant Craig Culbertson, Lieutenant O.F. McLaughlin and Lieutenant Gordon Jacques. Negative and print were made for the grant funded Local History Digital Resources Project 2006-2007. A digital image of this photograph is file name: caarpl_114 on LHDRP 2006-2007 Disc 9 of 14. See black box labeled Arcadia History Room Media Box.
Page 7 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Featuring photograph and biography of Colonel Anita Baldwin, in Red Star Society uniform. Negative and print were made for the grant funded Local History Digital Resources Project 2006-2007. A digital image of this photograph is file name: caarpl_113 on LHDRP 2006-2007 Disc 9 of 14. See black box labeled Arcadia History Room Media Box.
Page 4 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Featuring description of U.S. Army Balloon School grounds and photographs of Post Headquarters, Capt. W.H. Carruthers, A.S.S.C; U.S.A., and Major J.A. Baumann, A.S.S.C.; U.S.A. Negative and print were made for the grant funded Local History Digital Resources Project 2006-2007. A digital image of this photograph is file name: caarpl_112 on LHDRP 2006-2007 Disc 9 of 14. See black box labeled Arcadia History Room Media Box.
Page 3 of The Arcadian Observer, Official Publication of the United States Army Balloon School, Arcadia, California. September 1918 Supplement. Reads: Colonel W. N. Hensley Jr. Commanding. Negative and print were made for the grant funded Local History Digital Resources Project 2006-2007. A digital image of this photograph is file name: caarpl_111 on LHDRP 2006-2007 Disc 9 of 14. See black box labeled Arcadia History Room Media Box.