Location: Arcadia (Calif.) / Names: Hugo Reid Adobe (Arcadia, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: At the time the photograph was taken, the adoabe was the residence of Elias J. ("Lucky") Baldwin. Originally a ranch of the Mission San Gabriel Archangel, founded in 1771, the Rancho Santa Anita had many owners after the secularization of the the missions in 1833. The photograph shows a view of a walkway bordered by Eucalyptus trees that were planted by owner William Wolfskill in 1865. To the left a wall of the 1839 adobe house of first post 1833 owner, Hugo Reid, can be seen, with the wood framed wing added by owner Elias Jackson Baldwin in 1879 visible in the background. Also visible is a "mission" bell hanging from a small, wooden structure at the end of the walkway.
Date:: [circa 1900-1903]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Pierce, C. C. (Charles C.), $d1861-1946
Collection:: C.C. Pierce Photographic Collection, circa 1898-1934

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

Description:: This photograph appears with 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

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