The figure is positioned looking northwest toward the home that Baldwin occupied at the time, known as the Hugo Reid Adobe, which is now preserved at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden.

His work has appeared at venues including Grand Central Terminal, New York; the War of 1812 Bicentennial exhibition at Niagara Falls, Ontario; and in numerous television and Hollywood productions.

He made a substantial fortune after the American Civil War in the Nevada Comstock Lode mining bonanza and used his profits to build a luxury hotel and theater in San Francisco at Powell and Market Streets, which he opened in 1877 (burned down 1898).

He was a leading member of San Francisco's powerful and influential business community at the time and in 1875 he was elected the first president of the Pacific Stock Exchange.

[4] Baldwin owned thousands of acres in Los Angeles County, including Rancho La Cienega, where oil fields were later developed that continue to produce petroleum to this day.