This exhibit features many of the interesting events related
to the founding and development of Cal Poly Pomona. The photographs
have been printed from historic negatives kept in the University
Archives and the W.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library.
The Cal Poly Pomona campus grounds and some of its buildings
were once part of an Arabian horse ranch belonging to breakfast
cereal pioneer Will Keith Kellogg. W.K. Kellogg was 64 when he
took a leisurely trip from his home in Battle Creek, Michigan
to Palm Springs, California in November 1924 for some resting,
reading and sunbathing. A visit to Chauncey D. Clarkes Point
Happy Ranch in Indio ultimately led Mr. Kellogg in 1925 to purchase
a group of Arabian horses from the Clarke ranch. Mr. Kellogg
then bought acreage in Pomona on which to build a ranch. While
the stables were under construction, the horses were boarded
at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds.
For more information on the history of the Kellogg Arabians
and the Kellogg Ranch, consult the following materials:
The Kellogg Arabian Ranch: The First Sixty Years: A Chronicle
of Events, 1925-1985 by Mary Jane Parkinson
The Kellogg Arabians: Their Background and Influence by Herbert H. Reese in collaboration with Gladys Brown Edwards.
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