2000.2.205

June, 1967
7 in HIGH x 9.5 in WIDE
(17.78 cm HIGH x 24.13 cm WIDE)
City of Oakland
2000.2.205


Two seals (?) are cavorting with each other on a raised cement platform in an enclosure that has a slide leading down to a pool (not shown) and a lollipop sign which reads "This is the house of The Carpenter." The sign and a house are one level up from where the seals currently are. (The reference to the carpenter is the poem by Lewis Carroll [sp?] The Walrus and the Carpenter.) The carpenter's house is a barrel with an deliberately skewed doorway and an exaggerated stove pipe rising from the roof. Three spectators, two children and an adult, are standing behind a double fence watching the action. The child at left, a young girl, is wearing a paper crown on her head the date on the back of the photo is June 5, 1967. The photographer's photo # is R.56.8

Used: City of Oakland

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