Spectator taking a break between races at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, March 2, 1940
Item Overview
- Title
- Spectator taking a break between races at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, March 2, 1940
- Date Created
- March 2, 1940
- Date
- 1940-03-02
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Spectator taking a nap on a staircase at Santa Anita Park. On this day, race horse Seabiscuit won the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap and set a new track record for the mile and a quarter race. The Los Angeles Times called it “the most popular victory in the history of western racing.” Seabiscuit’s victory received a rousing ovation from the 74,000 spectators
- Caption
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Text from original nitrate sleeve: Santa Anita $100,000 race; 3-2-40; Seabiscuit the winner
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: 3-2-40 Santa Anita $100,000 race
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film - Names
- Santa Anita Park (Arcadia, Calif.)
- Location
- Arcadia (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Sleeping
Horse racing--California--Arcadia
Lifestyle
Sports
Spectators--California--Arcadia
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002805g2
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
- Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .