Genre: news photographs / Location: Arcadia (Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Race horse "Discovery" before Santa Anita Handicap, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Discovery Works Mile in Sensational Time," Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan 1936: A9.
Date:: January 25, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Horses leaving the starting gate for a Christmas Day the day Santa Anita Park first opened, Arcadia, 1935

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: December 25, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Horse race at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: January 25, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Police Captain Grady Pardue in uniform, Arcadia, 1930s

Description:: Police Captain Grady Pardue had a 35 year career, retiring in 1960.
Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Grandstand entrance with equestrian-themed frieze, by Chester Phillips, at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: View of the grandstand entrance with its equestrian-themed frieze of galloping horses at Santa Anita Park. The frieze was created by Chester "Chet" R. Phillips, an architect and designer for Gordon B. Kaufmann (architect of the race track). The two flights of steps 2 the entrance are flanked by planting beds. A sign at the top of the steps reads "Cashiers" and 4 attendants stand on either side.
Date:: February 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Race horse "Discovery" with his handler at Santa Anita Racetrack, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Discovery Works Mile in Sensational Time," Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan 1936: A9.
Date:: January 25, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Stablemaster Malcolm Roger Mortimer at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1934

Description:: The host of horses at the Santa Anita track and former trainer of heavyweight champion Primo Carnera is described as "a versatile soldier of fortune".
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Man painting a fire hydrant, Arcadia (?), 1935

Description:: Paint bucket is on the ground to the man's left while cars and the residence are behind him.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Old mission bell at Rancho Santa Anita, Arcadia, circa 1900-1903 (copy negative 1920-1939)

Description:: "Mission" bell hanging from a small, wooden structure at the end of the walkway.
Date:: [1920-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Spectators in the grandstand at Santa Anita Park on Christmas Day, Arcadia, 1935

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: December 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Singing Wood runs a race at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: Singing Wood flies by during a race.
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Samuel Orchard with the world's only Multiphone, Arcadia, 1935

Description:: Photograph appears with the headline, "Being Preserved for Posterity," Los Angeles Times, 03 Sep 1935: 12.
Date:: September 13, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

New building (?), Arcadia (?), 1935

Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Race horses being led to the track at Santa Anita park on Christmas Day, Arcadia, 1935

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: December 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Horse race spectators in a box seating area at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1938 or 1939

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: [1938 or 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Actor Buck Jones and wife Odelle at Santa Anita Racetrack, Calif., 1940

Date:: February 23, 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Horses approaching the finish line at Santa Anita Park on Christmas Day, Arcadia, 1935

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: December 25, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

New construction (?), Arcadia (?), 1935

Description:: Structure as well as palm trees and other trees are shown in the photo.
Date:: 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Race horse "Whopper" wins the San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap race at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: View of race horse, "Whopper," winning the San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap race. "Whopper" is seen passing the tote board (totalisator) and crossing the finish line with 7 other horses following. The sign at the finish line reads "6. Feb. 29, 1936." the San Gabriel Mountains are in the distance.
Date:: February 29, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

"Dear Diary," "Morning Breeze" and "Hasten Henry" finish the California Breeders' Stakes race at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1938

Description:: "Dear Diary," "Morning Breeze" and "Hasten Henry" cross the finish line in the California Breeders' Stakes race at Santa Anita Park. Grandstand spectators watch in the foreground with cameramen in front of the white railing as the horses pass the tote board (totalisator) in the background.
Date:: December 31, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Final phases of construction at Santa Anita race track, Arcadia, ca. 1934

Date:: [circa November, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Barracks being demolished, Ross Field, Arcadia, 1932

Description:: Ross Field was established for the training of observation balloon pilots during World War I. The site later became Arcadia County Park.
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Type "R" observation balloon in air at Arcadia Balloon School, Arcadia, 1921

Description:: This image appears on the photo page "Arcadia Balloon School," Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 1921: X16.
Date:: December, 1921
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Three balloons landing or taking off at Arcadia Balloon School, Arcadia, 1921

Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Box seat view of horses leaving the starting gate at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: February 8, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Hugo Reid Adobe, or Baldwin adobe, Rancho Santa Anita, Arcadia, 1938

Description:: L-shaped house, part with Spanish tile roof, among palm and eucalyptus trees, with stone arch at left and shrubs in foreground
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Horses racing at Santa Anita Park the month it opened, Arcadia, 1934

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

"Foolem," and jockey John Adams at the starting gate at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1938

Description:: Photograph of race horse "Foolem" rearing and nearly tossing jockey Johnny Adams at the starting gate at the start of the 2nd race at Santa Anita Park. His groom tries to steady him.
Date:: December 31, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Barracks being demolished, Ross Field, Arcadia, 1932

Description:: Related Los Angeles Times article, March 2, 1932, “Ross Field Wrecking Rushed, Site Soon Will Be Clear of Buildings.” In less than ninety days, Ross Field, headquarters in California of training for army balloon school pilots during the World War, and in the halycon days of “Lucky” Baldwin, the center of activity for the Los Angeles Racing Association, will again be a pleasant rolling plain, dotted with trees, much as it was in the earliest days of the Santa Anita Rancho. ...
Date:: 1932
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Clubhouse at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: View of the track-side of the clubhouse at Santa Anita Park with 2 awnings and a balcony for watching the races.
Date:: February 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Jockeys riding their horses at the Santa Anita race track, Arcadia, ca. 1934

Description:: Three jockeys ride their horses on the race track while final phases of construction take place. A workman can be seen leaning on the tote board in the background.
Date:: [circa November, 1934]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Man in a rocking chair at the Pony Express Museum, Arcadia, 1930s

Date:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Santa Anita Park under construction, Arcadia, 1934

Description:: View across the turf area and main track toward the grand stand at Santa Anita Park when it was under construction. Sprinklers are on in the middle ground next to a stand of 3 palm trees.
Date:: 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Spectators in the grandstand at Santa Anita Park the month it opened, Arcadia, 1934

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Santa Anita Park seen from north of the main track, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: View towards Santa Anita Park from north of the main track with the grandstand in the distance. In the foreground is a fenced-off area bordered by a hedge.
Date:: January 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Oak trees, Rancho Santa Anita, Arcadia, 1933

Description:: Related to Los Angeles Times article, March 27, 1938, Rancho Santa Anita, A Los Angeles County Beauty Spot. For many years closed to the public, the thirty-acre Rancho Santa Anita Park, with its lake, fifty-one varieties of shrubs and trees, some of them the largest in Southern California, and its historic buildings of the late E.J. (Lucky) Baldwin occupancy, now is open …
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Couple enjoying themselves at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1938 or 1939

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: [1938 or 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Strike meeting of grooms and stable hands at Santa Anita Race Track, Calif., 1941

Date:: February 7, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Man and woman reviewing horse race literature at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1938 or 1939

Description:: Man and woman reviewing horse race literature next to a desk and open door at Santa Anita Park
Date:: [1938 or 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Watchtower at the Santa Anita Race Track, Arcadia, 1939

Description:: An unidentified man stands in a tower adjacent to the race track. The sign next to him displays the date as "Jan. 2 1939"
Date:: January 2, 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Mrs. Richard Hyde, Manuela Hudson Vanderbilt and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt at the Santa Anita Park Turf Club, Arcadia, 1938

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: December 31, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Clubhouse terrace at Santa Anita Park soon after its completion, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: The photographer, Bill Snyder, may be the same per son as William E. Snyder (1901–1984) a cinematographer.
Date:: February 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Santa Anita gateman David J Davis, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: This photograph appears, cropped, with the headline, "They Call Him 'Your Lordship'," Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 1936: 5.
Date:: January 12, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Santa Anita Park, view towards the paddock and grandstand entrance, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: January 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Coach barn, Rancho Santa Anita, Arcadia, 1938

Description:: Rancho Santa Anita Park later became the Arboretum of Los Angeles County
Date:: 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Santa Anita Park seen from a field behind the far turn, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: January 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Horses racing at Santa Anita Park month it opened, Arcadia, 1934

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Horses on the home stretch passing the grandstand at Santa Anita Handicap race, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: February 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Clubhouse and Grandstand at Santa Anita Park, Arcadia, 1936

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: January 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Birdseye view of race horses walking on the track at Santa Anita Park the month it first opened, Arcadia, 1934

Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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