Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. 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 … 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. Rancho Santa Anita later became the Arboretum of Los Angeles County. House with Spanish tile roof, among palm and eucalyptus trees, at end of stone-lined path, viewed through stone arch Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 11062 3/22/38 Baldwin House, EJ (Lucky Baldwin) Text from newspaper caption: BALDWIN ADOBE. A portion of this adobe was the first building on the rancho; built in 1839 by Hugo Reid. Baldwin added a wing to the building in 1879, which included his own room, where he lived while on the rancho, and where he died on March 1, 1909.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0297 uclamss_1429_0297 ark:/21198/zz002d9jch
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Arches--California--Arcadia Landmarks Rancho Santa Anita (Arcadia, Calif.) Ranches--California--Arcadia Adobe houses--California--Arcadia Environment Arboretum of Los Angeles County Hugo Reid Adobe (Arcadia, Calif.)
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