christmas

c. 1940

Interior of Kahn's Department Store in downtown Oakland during the Christmas season. It is the main floor of the store.

c. 1940

Close up of Christmas decoration in the interior of Kahn's Department Store in downtown Oakland during the Christmas season. It is the main floor of the store.

1955-1975

A Nativity scene on a lawn, showing the creche and mannequins of visitors to the creche. Three camels are part of the tableau, but it is not clear whether they too are mannequins or live animals...

12/24/91

Color print of the Gomez family in front of their Christmas tree, Christmas Eve 1991. Per donor: I gave a photo of my family all together. I gave that photo because Christmas is the only time we...

1944

V mail. Description: Christmas Greetings and Happy new year from Sgt. Modest Monaco, illustration of a soldier by a palm tree, on V mail. Dimensions: 4 1/4" x 4 1/8" condition: very good (...

1950

From caption on back of photograph: "Practicing for the program of Christmas music which the College Choral of the College of the Holy Names will present in the school's auditorium at 3:15 p.m....

24-Dec-13

Envelope reads, "Christmas tree- This is the orphan's Christmas tree: the great emblem of the Yuletide season erected in the Hotel Oakland by the Merchant's Exchange for Oakland's little ones....

19-Dec-50

Tribune caption on the back, Dec. 19, 1950- "Car lights form streaks in striking night view of Washington Street Yule display.- Tribune photo by Russ Reed." Photo is taken looking down Washington...

20-Dec-89

Handwritten on the back, "Oakland Airport (info on other print)." Photo shows a woman, with her back to the camera, standing on her tiptoes at a ticket counter at the Oakland Airport. Standing...

Dec-40

Tribune caption on the back, Dec. 8, 1940-- "This 36-voice all-employee choir will entertain shoppers at Kahn's Department Store during the Christmas shopping rush. It is shown here being...

Dec-41

Tribune caption on the back, Dec. 14, 1941-- "This 35-voiced all-employee choir of Kahn's, Oakland department store, is heard each noon from the rotunda of the second floor of the building,...

7-Dec-47

Clipping attached to photo, "TODAY'S COVER--All that is inherent in the Christmas season- the warmth, the cheerfulness, the good fellowship-is evident on the faces of the Oakland Veterans Hospital...

11-Dec-82

Handwritten on the back, "Christmas dinner at the Yu house, Yu family, Tin Wah Yu dishing out soup." Photo shows a large Chinese family sitting around a round table. The head of the family is...

23-Dec-83

Handwritten on the back, "Crowds lined up at ticket counters Oakland Airport." Photo shows a large crowd of passengers standing in line at the ticket counters for American and United Airlines....

23-Dec-83

Tribune caption on the back, Dec. 24, 1983-- "It was too late to beat the rush Friday at oakland International Airport." Handwritten, "Crowd lined up at ticket counters Oakland Airport." Photo...

1927|1942|1947

1. Two typed letters from Frederick H. Meyer to Martinez from 1942.

2. Two newspaper clippings regarding the death of Laetitia S. Meyer, the wife of Frederick H. Meyer, from Dec. 1947....

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1973

This is a black and white photograph that shows a man dressed up as Santa Claus and a woman in a Santa costume with a short skirt standing by a bus with two children. A reindeer in a decorated...

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