piedmont pines neighborhood

17-May-40

Trowel, ceremonial, silver metal with a wood handle. It is engraved with the following: "Mayor Wm. J. McCracken Occasion Corner Stone Laying Woodminster Memorial Amphitheater Oakland, Calif. May...

1961

Booklet. Description: About "The Hights" Joaquin Miller Park.

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

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ca. 1880-1920

California picture postcards. Description: Postcard scenes of East Bay (Oakland and Berkeley). a) Public library, Oakland (colored), c. 1915. b) Hotel St. Mark, Twelfth & Franklin St.,...

1908
ca. 1900

Booklet & Postal Cards, about "The Hights."

(G. Weininger, 5/2002): Poet Joaquin Miller had purchased much of this land, which he called "The Hights," in 1886 as a retreat and later...

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...

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...

ca. 1900

Booklet & Postal Cards, about "The Hights."

(G. Weininger, 5/2002): Poet Joaquin Miller had purchased much of this land, which he called "The Hights," in 1886 as a retreat and later...

ca. 1900

Booklet & Postal Cards, about "The Hights."

(G. Weininger, 5/2002): Poet Joaquin Miller had purchased much of this land, which he called "The Hights," in 1886 as a retreat and later...

1891

Postcards. Description: postcards of Oakland. a. Joaquin Miller Driving Home Behind `Black Warrior' b. "The Hights," Oakland, Cal. 1891.

Bibliography: The Beginnings of Oakland,...

ca. 1900

Booklet & Postal Cards, about "The Hights."

(G. Weininger, 5/2002): Poet Joaquin Miller had purchased much of this land, which he called "The Hights," in 1886 as a retreat and later...

ca. 1900

Booklet & Postal Cards, about "The Hights."

ca. 1900

Booklet & Postal Cards, about "The Hights."

ca. 1900

Booklet & Postal Cards, about "The Hights."

"Joaquin Miller, "the Poet of the Sierras", at his home near Oakland, CA"; home was called "The Heights"

1890-1910

Postcard. Description: Color-picture of Joaquin Miller; nearby, his white house-Oakland. Dimensions: 3-3/8" x 5-1/4". Condition: Good.

1889

"The Heights", "residence of the Poet Joaquin Miller, on the hills 6 miles east of Oakland, E.L. Winchell in the foreground, taken by Sil A. Winchell, 1889". Photograph. Description: Black and...

Photograph. Description: Joaquin Miller Park. Black and white print, 7 3/8" x 9 3/8".

Photograph, obsequies of Joaquin Miller. Scattering the ashes on the pyre, "The Hights," Oakland, Calif.

d Public Library, 1961

Cincinnatus Heine Miller , known more popularly as...

1886

Photograph, historical, "The Heights"--Joaquin Miller's Home - 1886". (On back of copy photo) "Joaquin Miller's Home, (The Abbey) in the hills back of Oakland, 1886"

1957

A view looking west down Joaquin Miller Road, as per the handwritten notation on the back of the photo. The date is 02/27/1957. The road is striped for traffic lanes and it has a narrow divider...

1941-1975

The stately facade of the "Woodmisnter Amphitheatre." Two concrete columns support the recessed opening behind which are square glass blocks [?] set into the wall. Decorative urns at center are a...

1941-1975

A sign outside the Woodminster Theater whose bottom portion follows the line of steps which form the seating terraces inside the theater. The name "Woodminster" is in calligraphic style....

1941-1975

A painted sign on a wooden building reads "Woodminster-Cathedral of the Woods/A Memorial to California Writers/Dedicated by the People of Oakland March 5, 1941 [followed by the anmes of the Park...

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