truck

1940-1975

A typewritten piece of paper affixed to the back of the photo reads "The West's largest cement plant: situated in the San Franccisco Bay Area, with easy access to sea, rail, and highway transport...

20-Oct-67

Cars and trucks, staggered over the width of the road, sit with their tires deflated, effectively blocking traffic. This was presumably intented to thwart road access to the Armed Services...

1-Dec-46

Handwritten on the back, "Sunday Dec 1st, freight going into Kahn's." Photo shows a truck full of boxes being unloaded by several men. The men are all dressed in various types of work clothes....

1-Dec-46

Handwritten on the back, "General Strike, unloading freight at Kahn's, Sunday morning Dec. 1st--Dec. 7, 1946." Photo shows trucks being unloaded at Kahn's. A motorcycle parked at the curb across...

1-Dec-46

Handwritten on the back, "Unloading freight at Kahn's, Sunday Dec 1st." Photo shows freight trucks backed up to Kahn's being unloaded. A couple of trucks going down the street, apparently...

1-Dec-46

Handwritten on the back, "Sunday Dec 1st, freight going into Kahn's." Photo shows truck convoy going down street by Owl Drug store, escorted by police on motorcycles. One truck is backing up to...

5-Dec-46

Handwritten in pencil on the back of the photo, "1st Tribune paper's after gen. strike was called off Thurs. Dec. 5th.--Dec 7, 1946." Photo shows a conveyor belt sticking up through the sidewalk...

1-Dec-46

Handwritten on the back, "Bringing freight into Kahn's sunday Dec. 1st--Dec. 7, 1946." Negative shows a convoy of trucks turning from Telegraph Ave. onto the street by Owls Drug store. Police...

December 3-5, 1946

Clipping on the back of the photo reads, "Crowds of pickets and strike sympathizers surge around and on this U.S. mail truck, which backed up to Kahns' 16th Street entrance in an unsuccessful...

1-Dec-46

Typed clipping on the back, "With sirens screaming, Oakland police convoyed six trucks through massed AFL picket lines and a police cordon yesterday to make the first delivery of merchandise to...

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...

26-May-41

Clipping from Tribune on the back, May 26, 1941-- "Another group of workers was loaded into Navy trucks at the Labor Temple and rode the two miles and a half to Moore's. Here, the convoy is about...

30-Jun-27

Handwritten on the back, "'gassing' Maitland-Hegenberger plane. Bird of Paradise." Photo shows the Fokker tri-motor which Maitland and Hegenberger flew to Hawaii. The photo is taken looking at...

1-Dec-46

Handwritten in blue pencil on the back of the photograph, "Freight being brought into Kahn's Sunday Dec. 1st.--Dec. 7, 1946." Photo shows the street corner at Telegraph and 17th St, in Oakland....

1927

Caption on the back, "DOING IT THE HARD WAY: Hand loading the first air freight at Oakland International Airport. On December 15, 1927, the first transcontinental air mail, passenger and express...

25-Nov-69

Photo was taken from the middle of Broadway near 13th. On the right side is the Lux Theatre with a bit of road construction happening right in front. Further down the street on that side is De...

9-Feb-59

The printing on the paper envelope in which this photo was stored reads "Airport, Alameda, San Francisco Bay Airdrome, but there is not much evidence to support it in the photo, which shows a...

13-Jan-60

The Tribune clipping, dated January 17, 1960, on the back of the photo reads ": SLIGHT DELAY--A snow plow fires a steadt stream of white as motoris0ts face slight delay before proceeding on east...

16-Jan-76

Tribune caption on the back, Jan. 25, 1976-- "A second story on the passenger boarding concourse is blocked by court order. Oakland International Airport's environmental impact report is under...

6-Mar-80

Clipping on the back, "May 10, 1981--Movers prepare to whisk the Raiders' office equipment to Los Angeles last year." Photo shows two large moving trucks in front of the Raiders building.

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28-Mar-56

Two photos that are identical, one is 8x10 and the other 11x14 and had a typed sheet containing the following information stapled to the photographs which were stapled to each other. "Blaikie,...

28-Mar-56

Two photos that are identical, one is 8x10 and the other 11x14 and had a typed sheet containing the following information stapled to the photographs which were stapled to each other. "Blaikie,...

26-Jul-27

The typewritten notation attached to the back of the photo reads "SAN FRANCISCO AIR PORT NEARING COMPLETION FOR HONOLULU RACE San Francisco's Municipal Air port is nearing completion for the...

Jul-34

Tribune caption on the back, July 18, 1934-- "Even while city and county officials and National Guardsmen (upper) were conferring today over means of bringing supplies in to the Eastbay, food...

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