plywood

c. 1964

One of many signs posted around Building 590 at the Oakland Army Base during the Vietnam War. Building 590 was used as a place were troops would spend the

night before being shipped to...

c.1950s

Painting of the Port of Oakland by artist Carlos Andreson. This painting has several scenes in registers, some in outline form, some fully colored. From top right : Ship's crane with tanker in...

c.1950s

Painting of the Port of Oakland by artist Carlos Andreson. The painting is predominantly blue, with a ship at bottom, and a row of flags of the world floating and geeting smmaller in the center....

c.1950s

Painting of the Port of Oakland by artist Carlos Andreson. The mural is divided in several scenes in registers; the colors are predominantly blue and green. At the center there is seal "Supply and...

Four-Panel Screen
late 19th century to early 20th century

Four-paneled folding screen. "The asymmetrical composition of blossoming magnolia branches on a pale ochre background extends across all four panels, painted in oils accented with touches...

Sign. Description: One-fourth (1/4") inch plywood, painted black on front with orange arrow and stapled paper arrow underlining "Oakland Public Museum", lettering is 1-5/8" in height and is pale...

c. 1930's

sign. Description: sign painted on plywood: "U.S.A." WORK PROGRAM W P A" Colors are white, black, red, and what must have been originally blue. History: This was a street sign used in...

c. 1920

Bee smoker (Tools-Agriculture). Description: with bellows attached (made of vinyl and plyboard; cylindrical container with tapered aperature for smoke.

Disposition: Tools-Warehouse

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c. 1946

Chair. Description: Wooden Chair -c. 1946, Molded plywood, Designed by Charles Eames, MFG. By Herman Miller.

From the History Information Station:

Object: Molded plywood chair...

c. 1964

One of many signs posted around Building 590 at the Oakland Army Base during the Vietnam War. Building 590 was used as a place were troops would spend the

night before being shipped to...

c. 1964

One of many signs posted around Building 590 at the Oakland Army Base during the Vietnam War. Building 590 was used as a place were troops would spend the

night before being shipped to...

c. 1964

One of many signs posted around Building 590 at the Oakland Army Base during the Vietnam War. Building 590 was used as a place were troops would spend the

night before being shipped to...

c. 1964

One of many signs posted around Building 590 at the Oakland Army Base during the Vietnam War. Building 590 was used as a place were troops would spend the

night before being shipped to...

c. 1964

One of many signs posted around Building 590 at the Oakland Army Base during the Vietnam War. Building 590 was used as a place were troops would spend the

night before being shipped to...

c. 1964

One of many signs posted around Building 590 at the Oakland Army Base during the Vietnam War. Building 590 was used as a place were troops would spend the

night before being shipped to...

Love in Italian
1967

APPROXIMATE DATE: 1967 This is a lavender-colored rectangular sculpture constructed from fiberglass covered plywood. The sculpture is orientated vertically and rests at an angle against a wall...

Steaming Poodle Bench
1994-95

Baltic birch plywood, poplar, ripple maple, sitka spruce, epoxy resin inlay, oil based lithography inks.

Auntie Macassar Goes West
1987-1988

from artist's notes: Wood fabrication, lamination, epoxy inlay and airbrush anglin dying. Materials: Birch plywood, maple, Sitka spruce, Colorcore formica, epoxy resin, pine knots. Source of...

12/12/05

This is a reproduction of an Eames molded plywood screen made by Herman Miller, Inc. There is a brochure for the screen and the certificate of authenticity from Herman Miller in the accession file...

1985

Large plywood cube with found metal cut and nailed to surface. Composition appears as a patchwork of images in earth tones including houses, flowers, landscapes and abstract designs.

Afterhours
2004

This sculpture is constructed with found objects. Four Bentwood chairs with woven seats rest upside down on a round black Formica table. (A) The legs of the chairs are connected with curved...

1995
1977

Large sculpture (A) of a wish bone, earthenware with low fire glaze, mounted to plywood with wire. Plywood has been stained brown and has four holes, one in each corner, for mounting to a wall....

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