desk

7-Dec-42

Clipping on the back, "Dec. 7, 1942-Registration for defense classes is one of the many services of the AWVS. Shown here as she greets a registrant for sheet metal work, Mrs. Astrid Wallace (...

c. 1965

Color photograph contains an image of Oscar Maurer standing in front of a desk at lower right that supports a pink typewriter, a metal desk lamp, a magnifying glass, books, and other miscellaneous...

1957
c.1935
Circa 1982

Poster has black ink printed on white paper. Across the top is "Processed World". At the center is a four frame comic strip with a man driving a car in the first two frames and sitting...

If You're Not Working on Yourself You're Not Working
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster has a black printed background with white text and a stylized white desk at the bottom right. Text reads "if you''re / not working on / yourself / you''re not / working".

If You're Not Working on Yourself You're Not Working
1986

Poster has a blue printed background with white text and a stylized white desk at the bottom right. Text reads "if you''re / not working on / yourself / you''re not / working".

Marcus Garvey
Late 20th Early 21st Century

This poster has a wide, white margin around a black and white photograph of an African American man in a suit sitting at a desk. There are papers and a gavel on the desk. The man has a moustache....

PC Files Not Paper Piles
Late 20th Early 21st Century

The background of the poster fades from purple to orange to yellow moving from the top left corner to the bottom right. "California Integrated Waste Management Board" is printed in black at the...

Job Training
Late 20th Early 21st Century

Poster shows illustrations of people working - a man using a wrench to tighten something, a woman at a desk writing, and a figure on a computer while a man with a long piece of paper looks on. At...

Everyone Has The Right To Education
1960-2010

The upper two thirds of the poster are printed with a black and white photograph of a classroom. The photograph shows a male teacher standing in front of a wide blackboard, with a number of young...

Heaven lies about us in our children
Late 20th - Early 21st Century

Poster consists of orange and black print on natural/cream paper. Image at the top half of poster depicts a child at the forefront with a damaged classroom behind him. Text under the image reads "...

circa 1970

Poster consists of black print on white paper. Image depicts a closed fist with a manacle around it punching through a desk that has files about murder on it while a police officer, a man with...

Children who are Mirrors
1979

Poster printed with red, yellow, green, and black ink on white paper. An area of vertical gestural marks is centered on the top of the page that transitions from red at left, to yellow at center...

untitled (Lenin)
1987

Poster has an unprinted white border overall. Poster is printed with a large black and white photograph of Vladimir Lenin. In the photograph Lenin is seated behind a desk, he has both hands on the...

c. 1965

Color film photonegative of Oscar Maurer at a desk in a domestic interior room. Maurer sits at center in the photograph wearing a blue suit and reaches to adjust a small television set that sits...

c. 1965

Color film photonegative of Oscar Maurer sitting at a desk in a domestic interior room. Maurer sits at center in the photograph wearing a blue suit and reaches to adjust a small television set...

02/18/51

From the caption that ran with the image: "Quinn (seated) and P.J. Margetts and Eugene J. Thaney, aides." Image depicts Quinn seated at his desk, Thaney and Margetts standing over him, all three...

Portable typewriter made by Royal, a product of Royal McBee Corporation. a: typewriter; b: case: c: key; D: booklet. A: The typewriter is pink with white plastic letter keys. It says: "Royal" in...

10/8/90

Handwritten on front, "Earth quake remembered--- Dispatcher Michael Hadley was at work when the quake hit... Hadley plus other co-workers (Charles Soutter, John Stenner) were honored with...

Untitled
5/14/42

Image depicts Scott Weakley sitting in an office, his daughter Jillian standing over him. From the Oakland Tribune Collection

8/7/92

Image of an African American woman sitting in a chair at a desk, from a side angle. She has a chain from her nostril to her earlobe. Additionally, she is wearing a lot of jewelry, including many...

1915

Poster advertising Richard Jose in Silver Threads Among the Gold (film) (2) (LSegal, 1/93) After he is framed for stealing a purse at a barn dance and denounced by his father, a young country...

ca. 1900

Booklet & Postal Cards, about "The Hights."

Bibliography: The Beginnings of Oakland, California A.U.C. by Peter Thomas Conmy; Oakland Public Library, 1961

Cincinnatus Heine...

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