children's fairyland

2000

This poster includes a black and white image of Julia Morgan with architectural drawings in the background. "Julia Morgan, architect" and "East Bay Charm" are below. There...

1980s-1990s

A: green key, B: purple key, C: pink key, and D: green/yellow lanyard. One green plastic key attached by a metal clip to a green and yellow handmade lanyard upon which a pink plastic key and a...

1980s-1990s

A: key, B: lanyard One green plastic "magic key" in the shape of a crown. One side of the key has the words "Lakeside Park Oakland Calif. Pat. Pend. A.V.I.D.. S.F." and the...

ca. 1965

Postcard. Description: Color photo view of fairyland postoffice with three children. Unused postcard with scalloped edges. Title: U.S. Post Office Children's Fairyland Oakland Calfornia.

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c.1965

The Chapel of Peace in Childrens Fairyland, seen from a distance and from a slight elevation. The stained glass window above the front door, the dormer windows on the side, the belltower, and...

c.1965

A young woman dressed in an Alice in Wonderland outfit, and a man wearing a jumpsuit, are posed in alongside of a board/sign roughly 3 feet wide by 4.5 feet long on which is a line drawing of an...

c.1965

Two geese are feeding from a bowl on the near side of a brick wall, on which 6 children are either sitting or leaning. Two of the children at center have their hands out [a dangerous practice JM...

c.1965

A uniformed motorman is at the controls of a string of four "Toonerville" trolley cars, each holding a number of children. The trolley cars have windows, platforms, and overhead power collectors...

7-Mar-65

A young woman, dressed in an Alice in Wonderland outfit us talking with/to four young Alice in Wonderland look-alikes in their Alice outfits; they are standing in front of the young wman with...

c.1965

An exaggerated, stylized telephone booth, with phone operated by a crank at the right side and a mounthpiece at center. The roof of the the booth has a pair of large bell ringers. A girl with...

May, 1964

A mill by the stream, showing the water wheel, the mill pond, and the two-level, shingled, miller's house. The house is deliberately stylized and exaggerated. Its upper storey, which overhangs...

c.1965

A mill by the stream, showing the water wheel, the mill pond, and the two-level, shingled, miller's house. The house is deliberately stylized and exaggerated. Its upper storey, which overhangs...

c.1965

A goat [Billygoat Gruff?] is standing under thea ves of his stylized barn, chich has a pointed roof and tiles. To the goat's left there is a pointed cencrete hill for it to climb. A stron...

c.1965

A view of the puppet theatre at Children's Fairyland in action, with the performance underway. The pediment and proscenium arch of the theatre is deliberatley askew. Segmented signs at left and...

October, 1968

A close up view of the Children's Fairyland puppet theater, with its stage closed off by a roll-up (?) door. To the left of the theater is a five part sign reading "O once upon a time" To...

May, 1966

A group of 12 children are dancing (ring around a Rosie?) in a ring on the lawn (probably in front of) at Children's Fairyland. They are all costumed, and one wears a gnome's mask. Two of the...

June, 1967

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...

c.1965

Two men are presenting a plaque to Arthur E. Navlett (right) in front of Childrens Fairyland. The plaque bears a replica in high releif of the shoe from the nursery rhyme--"There was an old woman...

c.1965

A miniature, stylized clock tower with stairs leading up and a metal slide leading down. A young girl, dressed in Alice in Wonderland clothing, is coming off the slide. A typewritten notation is...

c.1965

A children's choir arrayed in surplices is posed facing the camera in front of the Chapel of Peace in Children's Fairyland. There are both boys and girls in the choir in roughly equal numbers....

1955-1965
c.1965

A stylized and exaggerated Noah's Ark with a blunt prow is in the middle of a shallow pond in Children's Fairyland. Children are walking toward the Ark at right, and one girl is leaving the Ark...

c.1970

A color slide of children queued up waiting to enter Children's Fairyland on the edge of Lake Merritt.

Nov. 11, 1957

Four children, including a toddler, are exiting the Chapel of Peace in Children's Fairlyland. The Chapel is a scale model miniature of a regular chapel, except that this one has no visible symbol...

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