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Title: Palms at Santa Anita Ranch
Alternative Title: Works Progress Administration Photo Collection
Creator: Burt, Burton O
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939
Publication Information: Federal Writers' Project
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The ranch was owned by E. J. "Lucky" Baldwin, who planted the palms in the 1880s. After Baldwin's death in 1909, the ranch land fell into the hands of Baldwin's daughter Anita, who in 1936, sold some acres to Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times. Chandler owned a real estate company, Rancho Santa Anita, Inc., which oversaw the former Baldwin land and developed subdivisions in the area. In 1947, 111 acres of the former Santa Anita Ranch were purchased from Rancho Santa Anita, Inc. by the State of California and County of Los Angeles to develop the arboretum.
A person walks along a path surrounded by tall palms at Santa Anita Ranch in Arcadia. April 28, 1939.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00075109
Works Progress Administration Collection
WPA 1001
CARL0000077433
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/3101
Subject: Santa Anita Ranch (Calif.)
Palms--California--Arcadia
Ranches--California--Arcadia
Works Progress Administration Collection photographs
Arcadia (Calif.)
Baldwin, Elias Jackson,1828-1909

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