California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Burial site of Elias Baldwin's four American Derby-winning horses at the Baldwin Ranch, ca.1910

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Burial site of Elias Baldwin's four American Derby-winning horses at the Baldwin Ranch, ca.1910

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Photograph of the burial site of Lucky Baldwin's four American Derby-winning horses, Valante (1885), Silver Cloud (1886), Emperor of Norfolk (1888), and Rey El Santa Anita (1894) at the Baldwin Ranch, ca.1910. The grave consists of a foundation made up of three square stone steps topped by a massive vertical stone Maltese Cross. There is a large bush growing near the left side of the monument, partially covering the left corner. Standing with her foot on the bottom step, a woman wearing a dress, jacket and hat gazes at the cross. In the background, there are several trees, including three palm trees, and there is a horse standing on the left side of the picture.

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Title Burial site of Elias Baldwin's four American Derby-winning horses at the Baldwin Ranch, ca.1910

Subject Baldwin, Elias J. ("Lucky") (subject), Cemeteries (lcsh), Cemeteries (adlf), Horses (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Rancho Santa Anita (file heading), Ranches (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place agricultural sites: Baldwin Ranch (geographic subject), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1910

Type images

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

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1910

Creator Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946 (photographer)

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-m6436

Identifier 9715 (accession number), CHS-9715 (call number), CHS-9715 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-6523 (legacy record id), chs-m6436 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-6551 (legacy record id), 1-64-14 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 6523

Unique identifier UC120900

Legacy Identifier CHS-9715.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 20.1 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
51.1 cm × 41.5 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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