Spectators watch a race on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937
Item Overview
- Title
- Spectators watch a race on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season, Arcadia, December 25, 1937
- Date Created
- December 25, 1937
- Date
- 1937-12-25
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Notes
- Description
- Spectators on opening day of Santa Anita's fourth horse racing season. On this day, over 50,000 spectators wagered a total of $789,159 on the eight races held, toppling the previous records of 40,000 people and $599,009 wagered. Big winners of the day were horse He Did, who won the feature race by more than a length and Bing Crosby's horse High Strike, who won his sixth straight race.
- Caption
- Text from original nitrate sleeve: Crowds - Santa Anita - 12-25-37
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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Horse racing--California--Arcadia
Lifestyle
Sports
Spectators--California--Arcadia
Crowds--California--Arcadia
Entertainment
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025gpx2
- 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 .