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20-Oct-67

A large crowd of demonstrators clogs the intersection of Clay, San Pablo, and 17th Streets in downtown Oakland. The protestors are largely held back by police officers, but a large contingent of...

20-Oct-67

A large crowd of draft demonstrators fills Clay Street in downtown Oakland. Police officers form a square near the intersection, keeping the protestors at bay.

20-Oct-67

A station wagon with deflated tires blocks an intersection in downtown Oakland. A large crowd is assembled on the sidewalk; a tow truck positions itself to remove the immobile vehicle.

1919

Handwritten on the back, "Street Car Strike 1919." Photo shows a street car with its windowns boarded up stopped on a street, somewhere in downtown Oakland. Several men are getting on the car....

1919

Handwritten on the back, "Street Car Strike 1919." Photo shows a street car with its windowns boarded up stopped on a street, somewhere in downtown Oakland. Several men are getting on the car....

5-Sep-60

Tribune caption on the back, September 5, 1960-- "A KAHN'S BY ANY OTHER NAME--That department store chain with outlets in Downtown Oakland, San Pablo and Concord- known as Kahns- will be known as...

20-Oct-67

One block from the Oakland Tribune building in downtown Oakland, a line of police officers can be seen making its way down the street. More than 10,000 demonstrators filled downtown Oakland on...

7-Feb-30

Handwritten on the back, "Oak. Airport." Photo is a low level aerial view of the airport looking down toward the airport buildings. On one side of the buildings is the parking lot and on the...

c. 1935

Handwritten on the back, "Oak. Municipal Airport. general 1940." Photo is an aerial view of the airport showing several buildings and hangars. A few cars parked in the lot and a few planes on...

18-Feb-28

Handwritten on the back, "Oakland Airport. Photo is an aerial view of the area where the airport is located. Two hangars and a smaller building are all that exists of the airport buildings. The...

12-Jan-35

Tribune caption on the back, May 21, 1967-- "Amelia Earhart gts roses after flying 'little red bus' from Honolulu to Oakland, Jan. 12, 1935." Photo shows Earhart just emerging from her plane....

Dec-46

Photo shows a picket line in front of Kahn's. The picketers are men and women walking in a long circle in front of the entrance to the store. They are holding signs on wood poles that say "Do...

26-Feb-36

Handwritten on the back of the photo "2/26/36 Ur. Book, Par II pg 9. Oak. Munc. Airport. 59 Picas Yearbook #1898." Photo shows a U.S. Navy biplane parked on the tarmac at the Oakland Airport....

18-Oct-28

Handwritten on the back of the photo "Oakland Airport compass swinging table. used 10-18-28." Photo shows a biplane parked on the runway at the Oakland Airport. Two men dressed in pilots...

9-Nov-33

Tribune caption on the back, Nov. 9, 1933-- "Diagrams superimposed on this air photo of Oakland Municipal airport show how the blind landing, radio-operated system being installed jointly by the...

c. 1935

Photo shows an aerial view of the Oakland Airport and the surrounding area. In the distance behind the airport is downtown Oakland.

1935

Typed paper attached to the back, "Caption- CHINA CLIPPER: another historic East Bay flight took place on November 22, 1935, when Pan American Airlines' China clipper took off from the Oakland...

10-Feb-30

Handwritten on the back of the photo "Oak. Airport." Photo is a very blurry shot of the Oakland Airport and the surrounding area. The airport consists of five hangars and two smaller buildings...

25-May-38

Tribune clipping on the back, May 25, 1938-- "As the Oakland Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Oakland Advertising Club joined at luncheon yesterday, aviators from far and near gathered to...

21-May-38

Tribune clipping on the back, May 21, 1938-- "John Hayes (left), president of the Advertising Club of Oakland, Harry Bell (center), chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce aviation committee,...

28-May-38

Handwritten on the back in red pencil, "Aircraft Race Pacific International Air Races." Photo shows a car with a wood platform built on the roof driving along with an airplane flying above it.

1928

Handwritten on the back of the photo, "Maddux Air Lines 1928, 3776." Photo shows a line of men standing in front of two large airplanes. The men are either pilots or investors in the company....

31-Mar-38

Typed paper attached to the back, "OFFICIALS MAP AIR RACE COURSE. Ground work for the first annual Pacific International Air Races to be held May 28-30 at the Oakland Municipal Airport, had been...

25-May-38

Tribune clipping on the back, May 25, 1938-- "Ten minutes after the upper left photo was taken, the steel pylon buckled at the arrow and plunged the two men shown on the top 80 feet to the ground...

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