Documents related to Hastings Ranch and Rancho Santa Anita, California | Collections | The Huntington

Documents related to Hastings Ranch and Rancho Santa Anita, California | Collections | The Huntington

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Rancho Santa Anita : S58
Manuscripts
Pg. 4 of bound document, "Ro. Santa Anita, Chapman Tract. Part to be sold to A.B. Chapman..." showing courses, distances, parcel owners; color highlighting; township numbers, acreage. Title supplied by cataloger.
mssSolano SR_Box_25(06).09
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Photographs of Santa Anita Ranch, Sierra Madre, and San Gabriel, California
Visual Materials
Cabinet card photographs of a Victorian house and lake in Sierra Madre, part of Santa Anita Ranch. Includes man in horse cart with a Black driver. Also E. J. "Lucky" Baldwin's ranch in San Gabriel, showing his horse, Gano, and the Hugo Reid house and lake. Two photographs by Carleton Watkins.One photograph of San Gabriel Mission and parsonage. One unrelated photograph of George Peyser and brother outside a western clothing store in Grass Valley, California.
photPF 580-589
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Santa Anita Ranch
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, documents, volumes, and maps related to the business affairs of the Santa Anita Ranch from 1901 to 1904, and the Los Angeles Racing Association from 1907 to 1922. Of the approximately 600 pieces in this collection, 400 are receipts of the Los Angeles Racing Association. Additional material in the collection includes correspondence, diaries, and documents related to the personal and business affairs of Anita M. Baldwin. Also included is the estate settlements of Elias Jackson Baldwin and his elder daughter Clara Baldwin Stocker for the period from 1876 to 1936, including two volumes of city dockets on criminal and civil justice for the city of Arcadia, California. The Addenda includes business papers for Baldwin M. Baldwin, the Los Angeles Racing Association, and Anita M. Baldwin. The Addenda also includes a small amount of personal material related to Anita M. Baldwin such as address books, library and household inventories, poems and other compositions, musical scores, photographs, and scrapbooks.
mssBaldwina
Mission bell at Baldwin's Ranch, Rancho Santa Anita
Visual Materials
View of a path leading to a mission bell hanging in a small alcove with a cross at Baldwin's Ranch, Rancho Santa Anita (present day Arcadia, Ca.). A sign on the right says "Picking flowers not allowed."
photCL_555_06_431
The Santa Anita Ranch
Visual Materials
A makeshift dwelling, part thatched straw, part wood and blankets, sits in a flat clearing on the Santa Anita Ranch owned by Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin in San Gabriel (now chiefly in Arcadia, California). Another small dwelling sits amid trees to the left, and at the back of the clearing is a wood frame bell-tower.
photCL 74 (581)
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[Lucky Baldwin's Ranch. Santa Anita, California]
Visual Materials
This collection contains 71 lantern slides of primarily unidentified scenes including slides depicting people, children, scenery, and farming. Many of these scenes appear to be in the Southern California area, though there are a few from other locales including Canada and England. Among the identified slides are Mission San Gabriel; Champlain Monument in Quebec, Canada; a 1798 letter to the Maryland Free Masons; the steamship "Parisian" in Liverpool, England; Palmdale, California train station; the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake; and Lucky Baldwin's Ranch in Arcadia, California. Photographers are not identified.
photCL 518