Oakland Tribune

From its pioneering days in the late 19th century, through the Pulitzer Prize-winning work during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the Tribune has maintained a remarkable tradition of excellence in photojournalism. The Tribune collection is a major source for historical documentation of the Bay Area during the 1960s and 1970s. It is rich in images of protests at UC Berkeley, including the Free Speech Movement, the antiwar movement during the Vietnam war, and People's Park.

In 1995, the Oakland Tribune newspaper donated to the Oakland Museum of California its collection of news negatives and photographs, also known as its photo “morgue.” The collection, with about 3,000 negatives and a million photographs, documents the history of the Bay Area and California from the early part of the century through the 1990s.

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photograph Howard Erker 20-Mar-63 Tribune caption on the back, Mar. 21, 1963- "Jim Tolliver- With 34 points in the final Tournament of Champions game last Saturday, including the game-winning two-pointer in the closing seconds of...	photograph Howard Erker 29-Apr-75 Caption on photo " Romp in Hayward: Visitors to Hayward: a group of Vietnamese refugee children play on grounds outside motel where they are staying until final paperwork can be completed....
photograph Howard Erker 29-Apr-75 Caption on photo " Meals for Vietnam Refugees Are Prepared in Kitchen of Motel" Volunteer chefs are working to provide hot meals; contributions of food needed." A group of women are preparing...	photograph Howard Erker April 2,1975 Handwritten on back of photo, " L to R Charles Patterson--World Airways V.P., Capt. Ken Healy." Charles Patterson photographed speaking into microphone. Capt. Healy standing behind, looking ahead...
photograph Howard Erker 17-Apr-70 Description: A large crowd mills around the streets and sidewalks of Berkleley after police moved them off of campus, according to photo notes. They seem to be blocking cars at intersections due...	photograph Howard Erker 29-Nov-82 The Tribune photo, dated December 3, 1982, has the following caption on the back: "Kissie [l] Almanza, ,5, and Lisa Bradley [r], 11, play with doll." the children are palying with their dolls on...
photograph Howard Erker 29-Apr-75 Caption on Oakland Tribune article, "Children are from Montagnard tribe" Eventually these youngsters will settle in Denmark. April 30, 1975 Two boys, about age 4 or 5, are walking together. Boy...	photograph Howard Erker 10-Apr-75 Caption on Oakland Tribune article, "The Richard Gatteys and daughters Kim and Traci welcome newly adopted son, Jeffrey. European American couple appear to be in their twenties, along with...
photograph Howard Erker 2-Apr-75 Handwritten note by photographer, " Little Girl" leaning on bus window looking at America" (not clear whether it is a boy or girl. Child is standing, waving toward camera, and is about age 4....	photograph Howard Erker 7-Mar-86 A rainy day in Acorn Plaza. In the foreground there is the Plaza logo, a rectangle in a circle, mounted on a concrete cylindrical post, surrounded by four smaller posts, two with raised letters...
photograph Howard Erker 7-Mar-86 A rainy day in Acorn Plaza. A breezeway in what is probably the Acorn Super[market] building. There are two unidentified retail stores in the breezeway at center; both appear to have gone out of...	photograph Howard Erker 7-Mar-86 A rainy day in Acorn Plaza. The image is an angle in a breezeway that is joined to the Acorn Super[market]. A store with no sign of interior or exterior activity is at center. There is an...
photograph Howard Erker 7-Mar-86 A rainy day in Acorn Plaza. Automobiles are in the parking lot in front of Acorn Super[market] in the left background. The Acorn Plaza logo, mounted on a cylindrical concrete post, is at left...	photograph Howard Erker 8-Jan-85 A side view of the Highway 680 bridge over the old four-lane highway getween Castro Valley and Dublin. Steel girders are supporting the mostly complete concrete bridge. A crane on a flat bed...
photograph Howard Erker 8-Jan-85 A view looking uphill on a section of new and virtually completed segments of new Highway 580 between Castro Valley and Dublin, looking West. Both the eastward and westward roadways are complete...	photograph Howard Erker 31-Oct-85 A view of the exterior of the Acorn Plaza showing automobiles in the parking lot, a light standard, and the Acorn Plaza logo, a rectangle in a circle, mounted on a concrete column in the left...
photograph Howard Erker 31-Oct-85 An exterior view of the Acorn Super[market] taken diagonally of the front of the store. The principal architectural feature is the small roof structure with a sharply angled roof supported by...	photograph Howard Erker 31-Oct-85 An exterior view of a retail store in the Acorn Redevelopment Project. The sign over the store is "Anntawnnette," and, according to the notation on the back of the photo, the smiling African...
photograph Harold Adler 18-Oct-92 Photograph of a burned-out shell of a house that was a casualty of the 1991 Berkeley-Oakland Hills fires.	photograph Hoehn c. 1930 The undated Tribune photo has the following caption on the back: "HANGAR-LINE CHANGING FAST This [touched up] photograph from a plane landing at the Oakland Municipal Airport shows how the...
photograph Holt 4/1/48 The caption on the back of the photo reads: These three young Oakland baseball fans believe in being prpoerly attired. They are (left to right) Bob Neuman, Paul Krusi and Tony Taylor. Neuman's...	photograph Howard Erker 30-Jul-75 A panoramic view of the widening of Highway 580 between Castro Valley and pleasanton, showing the old four-lane road, with autombiles moving on it, on the upper portion of the photo. The lower...
photograph Haas-Schreiner Photo 26-Jan-33 Typed on the back, "Thomas Meagher and Geo. Wallace." Photo shows the two men, who are speed skaters, in their skating uniforms, skating side by side. They both have medals pinned to their...	Oakland Tribune T-Shirt "Masters of Disaster" Hanes This is a white Oakland Tribune t-shirt which reads: "Oakland Tribune A Pulitzer Prize Winning Newspaper Masters of Disaster" in black and red