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Man is riding bicycle on a path inside Rancho Santa Anita Park and Lake (later, the Arboretum), with many palm trees. Sign reads "Open to the Public Daily until 7PM, private property" and "Curves, drive slowly through park." The following information is from Sandy Snider: This is indeed, today’s Arboretum, but at the time the property was owned by a real estate syndicate named Rancho Santa Anita Inc. The enterprise was headed by the Chandler family (Harry until he died), and they bought the land from Anita Baldwin in 1936 for purposes of residential development. About 1939 they opened “the park” to visitors in hopes of encouraging land sales. About 30 acres surrounding the lake was sort of set aside as Santa Anita Park and Lake, that was roughly the area made available for movie location rentals and clearly for bicyclists, etc. 1939 is the circa date for this photograph, but it could have been anytime between 1936 and 1947 (when the land was sold to State and County for use as an Arboretum). The granite boulders lining roadways were typical Baldwin Ranch landscape features, and the pillars seen in the photo are also from Baldwin times. In the background you can see more boulders in a circular sort of shape – likely the old Baldwin Lily Pond.

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Date: c.1939

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Date: c.1939

Subjects: Arboretum; Rancho Santa Anita

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 2170

Collection: Photographs

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Iron gate and concrete posts of one entrance to Santa Anita Rancho with sign above showing only part of letters which read "Santa Anita Rancho." Entrance was on Huntington Drive.

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Date: 1936

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Date: 1936

Subjects: Rancho Santa Anita

Physical Description: 6x10 b&w and 3x5 b&w

ID: 127

Collection: Photographs

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Child seen standing in driveway entrance with man on extreme right watching. Caption beneath reads: Driveway, "Lucky" Baldwin's Home. It is not known which entrance to ranch this was.

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Date: 1906

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Date: 1906

Subjects: Rancho Santa Anita-1975-1909; Baldwin Ranch

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 925

Collection: Photographs

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Sign on gate entrance to the Arboretum reads NO MINORS ALLOWED.

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Date: undated

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Date: undated

Subjects: Rancho Santa Anita, Inc.; Arboretum

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1523

Collection: Photographs

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These Baldwin Ranch gates marked the entrance to the homesite. Today the iron gates stand at the south entrance to the restored Santa Anita Depot on Arboretum grounds. The man and woman standing in front of the gates are unidentified.

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Date: c.1903

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Date: c.1903

Subjects: Baldwin Ranch; Rancho Santa Anita-1875-1909

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1167

Collection: Photographs

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Photo of Rancho Santa Anita with one man standing near an oak tree on left and another man standing to the right. Houses are visible in the background. The men appear to be the same as in photos #1541 and 1542. Handwritten note on back reads, "Showing where proposed road turns from so. slope knoll towards south."

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Date: probably March 24, 1943 (see photo #1541)

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Date: probably March 24, 1943 (see photo #1541)

Subjects: Rancho Santa Anita Inc.; Tallac Knoll

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1540

Collection: Photographs

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Looking east toward boat house. Two men can be seen standing at either side of entrance to boat house and a man and a lady can be seen in a row boat on lake. Boat house was reportedly built c. 1891 by E.H. Gorrill of Sierra Madre. It was destroyed on December 26, 1969 in a fire spawned by a smoldering cigarette and fanned by Santa Anita winds.

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Date: c.1893

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Date: c.1893

Subjects: Rancho Santa Anita-1875-1909

Physical Description: 7x10 b&w

ID: 878A

Collection: Photographs

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History-Rancho Santa Anita (1909-1939)-Anita Baldwin

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Contents: 1. "Mrs. Reeves: Arcadia's own 'Lucky' Lady." Arcadia Tribune, August 4, 1977. 2. Copy of map showing part of Rancho Santa Anita, 1968. 3. "Raymond Lewis Knisley." Chapter from A Dozen Sierra Success Stories by W.K. Bixler 4. Personnel as remembered by A.D. Minium. Handwritten list from memoir…

Contents: 1. "Mrs. Reeves: Arcadia's own 'Lucky' Lady." Arcadia Tribune, August 4, 1977.; 2. Copy of map showing part of Rancho Santa Anita, 1968.; 3. "Raymond Lewis Knisley." Chapter from A Dozen Sierra Success Stories by W.K. Bixler; 4. Personnel as remembered by A.D. Minium. Handwritten list from memoirs taken later.; 5. Reminiscences of Santa Anita Rancho by A.D. Minium. Nine pages, undated.; 6. "Bathe pigs at model stock ranch of 'Lucky' Baldwin's daughter." Los Angeles Record, May 1, 1916.; 7. "Mrs. Anita Baldwin, owner of Santa Anita Rancho." Sacramento Star, May 1, 1916.; 8. "Medals won by local people." Star News, August 28, 1915.; 9. "California has another record breaker." Los Angeles Cultivator, March 2, 1916.; 10. "Seven day record for butter broken." News clip, 1916.; 11. "2,000 San Francisco fans of Tia Juana." News clip, circa April 7, 1916.; 12. "South breeding a new race of Kingly horses." Los Angeles Times, April 9, 1916.; 13. "Santa Anita Rancho, Anoakia breeding farm." Los Angeles Cultivator, June 22, 1916.; 14. "Genuine cornucopia is Santa Anita holstein." Pasadena Star News, February 26, 1916.; 15. "Eleven racers here, more on the way." San Diego Sun, April 5, 1916.; 16. "California's purebred establishment." Pacific Rural Press, March 11, 1916.; 17. "William C. DeLapp, merchant. Plea for part of ranch becoming State Agricultural College." Pasadena Star News, April 20, 1915.; 18. "A great stock ranch." California Cultivator, June 22, 1916.; 19. "Raymond L. Knisley, former Arcadian named co-executor of vast Anita Baldwin estate." Arcadia Tribune, October 31, 1939.; 20. Map of Baldwin Rancho. Copied from the Peacock Call, September October 1978.; 21. "$50,000 worth of ranch buildings." News clip, June 21, 1919. Regarding a complete description of a recently built dormitory for laborers.; 22. "Early scenes in California revived here." Arcadia Tribune, May 24, 1937.; 23. "A day in Old California at Rancho Santa Anita." Letterhead for committee who organized the celebration described in content #22.; 24. "Kindness an important asset in raising of livestock" (at Anita Baldwin's ranch). Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1920.