Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection / Names: Santa Anita Park (Arcadia, Calif.) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: View towards the tote board (totalisator) fronted by flower beds at Santa Anita Park. The San Gabriel Mountains are in the background on the right.
Date:: January 3, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Head Play at a stable at Santa Anita Park racetrack, with a woman, possibly an actress, and a man, possibly a groom or jockey.
Date:: [circa 1935-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Spectators in the grandstand at Santa Anita Park. Four cameras, one with a flash bulb attached, are on a ledge in front of the fence.
Date:: February 22, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Discovery Works Mile in Sensational Time," Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan 1936: A9.
Date:: January 25, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: December 25, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Santa Anita Park, the oldest thoroughbred racetrack in Southern California, opened on December 25, 1934.
Date:: January 25, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: View of the grandstand entrance with its equestrian-themed frieze of galloping horses at Santa Anita Park. The frieze was created by Chester "Chet" R. Phillips, an architect and designer for Gordon B. Kaufmann (architect of the race track). The two flights of steps 2 the entrance are flanked by planting beds. A sign at the top of the steps reads "Cashiers" and 4 attendants stand on either side.
Date:: February 1, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Snyder, Bill
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "Discovery Works Mile in Sensational Time," Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan 1936: A9.
Date:: January 25, 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The host of horses at the Santa Anita track and former trainer of heavyweight champion Primo Carnera is described as "a versatile soldier of fortune".
Date:: December 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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