A starting gate at Santa Anita Racetrack, ca.1950

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Photograph of a starting gate at Santa Anita Racetrack, ca.1950. A line of jockeys and their horses is visible in front of the starting gate positioned on a dirt track. To the left of the gate, four additional horses can be seen straped to it; these horses seem to serve as a the gate's support to immobilize it when the racing horses are out*. A large crowd of people is observable behind a white fence, which extends along the track. Behind the track, on a grassy field, what appears to be a scoreboard is noticeable with numbers on it. To its left, towards the back, what seems to be a garden of flowers is viewable, which forms an abstract design in the middle of the field. The racetrack further continues in the back while mountains and trees serve as the backdrop.; *"Actually, the Clydesdale horses were used to pull the starting gate before the introduction of tractors. The gate had to be quickly moved off the racetrack before the field made the lap around the track and headed down the stretch for the finish line. The Clydesdale horses pulled the gate into position before each race, then off the track, into the "gap" as soon as the horses were off in each race" -- Mary Forney, a Digital Archive's patron.

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Title A starting gate at Santa Anita Racetrack, ca.1950

Subject Horse-racing (lcsh), Mountains (lcsh), Racetracks (Horse-racing) (lcsh), Recreation -- Horse racing (file heading), Santa Anita Racetrack (subject), sports facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Arcadia (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1950

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1950

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m11495

Identifier 42796 (accession number), CHS-42796 (call number), CHS-42796 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-10915 (legacy record id), chs-m11495 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-11645 (legacy record id), 84-1-280 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 10915

Unique identifier UC118187

Legacy Identifier CHS-42796.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.7 in × 16.8 in at 300dpi
52.5 cm × 42.7 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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