Fred Alger Jr., Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, and Hugh Blue at the Santa Anita race track, Arcadia, 1930s

Item Overview

Title

Fred Alger Jr., Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, and Hugh Blue at the Santa Anita race track, Arcadia, 1930s

Date Created

1930s

Date

1930/1939

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Five men lean against a rail at a horse race track. Fred Alger Jr., left, wears binoculars around his neck.
“Azacar” from negative sleeve is a misspelling of Alger’s race horse named Azucar. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Alger Jr. owned a race horse named Azucar that raced frequently in the 1930s, winning the Santa Anita Handicap race in 1935. Hugh Blue, on the far right, was the secretary of Santa Anita race track from its founding in 1934 to his death in 1965.

Caption

Text from note included in negative sleeve: Fred Alger Jr. of Detroit (1st figure) Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt in center, and Hugh Blue at right end at Santa Anita during racing season. Alger is the owner of Azucar (picture ran in roto)
Text from negative sleeve: ALGER, FRED JR. & MRS. OWNER OF AZACAR [handwritten] From Detroit Son of Sec’y of War

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Alger, Frederick M. (Frederick Moulton), 1907-1967
Santa Anita Park (Arcadia, Calif.)
Blue, Hugh, 1886-1965
Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne, 1912-1999

Location

Santa Anita (Calif.)

Longitude

34.138715

Latitude

-118.045682

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Racetracks--California--Santa Anita
Horse racing--California--Arcadia