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
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E.J."Lucky" Baldwin thoroughbred horse, LOS ANGELES is shown being held by a black trainer while a man in top hat watches. There is another horse seen at left. Caption underneath reads: Los Angeles, with additional info on Santa Anita Handicap.

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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
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
922
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Photo of an unidentified jockey who rode for E.J."Lucky" Baldwin.

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Date
c.1902

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Date
c.1902
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
406
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Portrait left to right: E.J."Lucky" Baldwin, Dextra Baldwin (daughter of Anita M. Baldwin), Baldwin M. Baldwin (son of Anita M. Baldwin), Anita M. Baldwin.

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Date
c.1908

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Date
c.1908
Subjects
Baldwin family
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"
Baldwin, Baldwin M.
Baldwin, Dextra
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
98
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Photo and caption of A.M. Allen, architect for Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin's first race track.

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Date
c.1906

  1 image

Date
c.1906
Subjects
Allen, A.M.
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
1336
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Large stone Maltese Cross erected on the Baldwin Ranch by Anita Baldwin, marking graves of the four American Derby winners owned by her father, Elias J."Lucky" Baldwin. The cross and horse's graves are now situated at the Santa Anita Race Track. There is a sign with all details of horses' names and races won.

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Date
c.1930's

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Date
c.1930's
Subjects
Rancho Santa Anita
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing
Santa Anita Park-1934-1942
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
142
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Aerial view due south from a position almost directly over sharp curve of Colorado Street. Showing in this photo are the Track and Club House on a day of large attendance, the stables, and a training track. All along Huntington Drive and Colorado Street young trees have been planted. Old-time resident Reid Greer says that the large tree at the very left edge of photo about 2 1/2 in. from bottom is same tree as seen in photo #654, on flat ground just below knolls seen here, and therefore he places homes of Indians on ranch at this spot. E.J."Lucky" Baldwin winery is only building seen on knoll. There is an "x" on reverse side to mark location. This photo belongs to the Huntington Library. It is shown here for research only.

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Date
c. 1935

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Date
c. 1935
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Wines and winemaking
Colorado Blvd
Colorado Street
Huntington Drive
Santa Anita Park-1934-1942
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
628
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View from grandstand at Santa Anita Race Track, in a panorama view of entire track and surrounding area. Photo was taken during a meet -- probably the first one. The San Gabriel Mountains form a back drop.

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Date
c.1935

  1 image

Date
c.1935
Subjects
Santa Anita Park-1934-1942
San Gabriel Mountains
Physical Description
4x12 b&w panorama
ID
721
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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Aerial view of Rancho Santa Anita taken above Dairy, looking north, with 5,000,000 gallon reservoir in lower left, and Baldwin's one mile training track built in 1876 with stud barn buildings on south end of track. Eaton's Santa Anita at Colorado Boulevard and Michillinda Avenue just visible at top of photo.

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Date
March 7, 1940

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Panorama of Santa Anita Grandstand and area just to the SW of it. There are numerous people in the photograph as though the track were operating.

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Date
1939

  1 image

Date
1939
Subjects
Santa Anita Park-1934-1942
Physical Description
3x10 b&w
ID
556
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Handler standing at left, holds reins of Rey El Santa Anita on Baldwin's Ranch in Arcadia.

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Date
1903

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Date
1903
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
980
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Handler standing on left, looking toward camera, holds reins of Emperor of Norfolk on Baldwin Ranch in Arcadia.

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Date
1903

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Date
1903
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
981
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Baldwin, Elias J.- Horses and Horse Racing

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Contents
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, Auc…
Contents
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
Item ID
26AF
Collection
Subject Files
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View of racetrack with what appears to be the San Gabriel Mountains in the background. There are four horses and riders apparently headed for a fall and two men on the track with whips trying to right things. Numerous people are watching. There is a large grandstand structure.

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Date
c.1890's

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Date
c.1890's
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing
San Gabriel Mountains
Physical Description
7x10 b&w
ID
221A
Collection
Photographs
Images
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View SE from roof of Santa Anita Race Track across section of quarters built for evacuees at Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese. Low hills in the distance are the Puente Hills. American Flag flies from post at left side of photo. This photo, together with photos #654 and 655, form a panorama.

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Date
April 1942

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Date
April 1942
Subjects
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese-Buildings and grounds
Santa Anita Park-1942-1945
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
656
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Winery (brick portion of building) built according to Lupe Cuellar, in 1876. Shed built of wood was added later and converted to carpentry shop for Santa Anita Race Track. Winery was located on low hills just north of present race track building.

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Date
unknown

  1 image

Date
unknown
Subjects
Rancho Santa Anita
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Wines and winemaking
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
126
Collection
Photographs
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Two young men playing cards at a table in a room. Man with cap is Richard Herman Shierske, who was a jockey for E.J."Lucky" Baldwin. He was licensed under the name of Richard Herman. Other young man is Charles McIver.

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Date
1909

  1 image

Date
1909
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"-Horses and horse racing
Shierske, Herman
McIver, Charles
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
407
Collection
Photographs
Images
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E.J."Lucky" Baldwin with hand at back of hat. This is a close-up of photo #933.

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Date
1907

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Date
1907
Subjects
Baldwin, Elias J. "Lucky"
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
935
Collection
Photographs
Images
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Arcadia's Santa Anita Park main track to reopen today after rash of fatalities. Nineteen horses have died at Santa Anita Park Race Track since December 2018. Track surfaces are being tested.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 28, 2019
Pages
p. 1, 13
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
February 28, 2019
Pages
p. 1, 13
Subjects
California Horse Racing Board
Horses and horse racing
Peterson, Mick
Santa Anita Park-2011-2020
Collection
Newspaper Index
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