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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.

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Baldwin, Elias J.- Horses and Horse Racing

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1. "The first year." Arcadia Bulletin, circa 1940. Article delineating progress in Arcadia.

2. "Arcadia has famous track -- and a lot more." Daily News, December 4, 1946. Article by Leslie Claypool describes city in a lengthy report.

3. "Controversy on location (of City Hall) raged for more than five years." Daily News Post, January 30, 1962. News photo and caption of City Hall built in 1948.

4. "One of the coldest nights in Southern California History." Los Angeles Herald Examiner, August 7, 1977. News photo and caption of 1949 weather milestone.

5. "Great years for Arcadia." Arcadia Tribune, January 1, 1948. Summary of 1947.

6. "Historic Santa Anita Tract deed delivered to County." Los Angeles Times, March 27, 1947, page 5.

7. "Something must be done." Arcadia Tribune, May 14, 1942. Article by Hal Roach describing great need for top sewer system.

8. "Chamber of Commerce group hears fine program." Arcadia Tribune, April 19, 1942. Summary of problems facing Arcadia as of April 1942.

9. "Nixon got early political start in Valley." Daily News Post, January 16, 1969. Interviews with people who remembered Nixon started career here.

10. Copy of #9.

11. "Literature on defense lines at library." Arcadia Tribune, April 2, 1942.

12. "Sewers or Cesspools." Four page fact book published by "pro" group regarding bond election of May 8, 1945.

13. Copies of programs given at Arcadia Christian Reform Church during war time. Includes program of V.E. Day Service.

14. "V .... ---" Mail

15. Speech given to the Arcadia Historical Society on July 21, 1955 on the history of Arcadia from 1936 to 1955. Given by F. Wesley Davies of the Chandler Syndicate, which purchased 1300 acres (approximately 47%) of Arcadia in 1936.

16. "Santa Anita's Flood Control Project Starts: completion of $33,000 job set before rain season." Pasadena Post, September 13, 1941. "County Plans to Strengthen Canyon Walls: work will start soon on improvements above Arcadia." Pasadena Post, August 24, 1941.

17. "Arcadia Council Slashes Tax Rate Two Cents." Pasadena Post, August 8, 1941.

18. "Developing Arcadia: Harry Chandler (with photo). Publisher of the Los Angeles Times, head of the Rancho Santa Anita developments in Arcadia. It is the Chandler group behind Arcadia's enormous building boom. And the boom is just starting." Monrovia Journal, January 4, no year given. And excerpt of a story about Elias J. Lucky Baldwin's employee Fisher, a young Black boy, who Baldwin convinced to move out west to work at his livery stable in San Francisco, after having been enslaved to a Mr. Butler.

19. Rising price of land astounds Arcadia (land near City Hall Civic Center on Huntington Drive that is occupied by a National Guard Armory), Los Angeles Times, June 12, 1986.

Subjects

Arcadia (City) History (1940-1950)

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